IDW Usagi Yojimbo #1 in Previews
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Re: IDW Usagi Yojimbo #1 in Previews
Since I'm not doing group buys for the retailer incentive covers (Johnson, Simonson, or Eastman), I thought I'd give everybody a heads up that Frankie's Comics listed them at fairly reasonable prices. I *am* still doing a Frankie's exclusive group buy.
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Yeah, knowing there’s this many variants means hopefully the incentives won’t be that hard to get... if you do a variant, you’re looking at 1000 copies minimum, and thus valid to order 20 copies of Kevin’s cover for example.
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Most of the variant runs that we have numbers on are only 500-600: AOD Collectables, Collector's Paradise (600 + 200 virgin), Dogu, Frankie's, Legends, New England Comics, Slab City, and Vault. Though even at those numbers they're looking at 10+ copies of Kevin's cover.Mayhem wrote:Yeah, knowing there’s this many variants means hopefully the incentives won’t be that hard to get... if you do a variant, you’re looking at 1000 copies minimum, and thus valid to order 20 copies of Kevin’s cover for example.
The only ones confirmed at 1000 are Brave New World and Jak's. I wonder if IDW was a bit more lenient on order size on this one to entice more variants?
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Possibly. I know from collecting variants on IDW TMNT, very few places (notable Jetpack) have been allowed less than 1000. When a mate of mine did his own for issue #73, he had to get 1000 minimum.
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Okay, more of an issue #3 question, but does this mean there are 818 dots on Usagi's clothing?
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Yes. Not counting the dots on his mon.jabba359 wrote:Okay, more of an issue #3 question, but does this mean there are 818 dots on Usagi's clothing?
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I wasn't going to buy any variants, but that colored Vess is nice! You can get them directly from Heroes Aren't Hard to Find.
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Other Realms cover.
), the black and white Simonson cover (surprise, it looks like the other Simonson cover, just without color
), and I think I saw one more store exclusive cover, but I can't recall for certain.
I think the only covers we haven't seen are: Signing Tour/SDCC, the blank cover (surprise, it's pretty blank 

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Okay, it's looking like the b/w Simonson exclusive might actually instead be a color, virgin variant as an SDCC exclusive.
edit: And Maichan showed me a publication that lists the virgin, color Simonson cover will be an IDW SDCC exclusive and will be sold as a two pack with Ragnarok: Breaking of Helheim. I don't know pricing yet.
edit: And Maichan showed me a publication that lists the virgin, color Simonson cover will be an IDW SDCC exclusive and will be sold as a two pack with Ragnarok: Breaking of Helheim. I don't know pricing yet.
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Re: IDW Usagi Yojimbo #1 in Previews
Thanks for the update
IncredibleCon isn’t until September though...?

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Yeah, I couldn't find anything on the Incredible Con site or Facebook page about the cover, but I found another article that listed the same cover and the same convention exclusive, so that's two sources saying the same thing.Mayhem wrote:Thanks for the updateIncredibleCon isn’t until September though...?
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Man, IDW's printers are not off to a good start. I've now heard from three places reporting damage to the covers:
Legends said they had enough undamaged copies to fill all the pre-orders and Jak's said they'd pick out the best looking ones for my group order, so we should be good with those. Vault is giving me a couple days to make sure nobody wants to drop out of the group order (let me know if you don't want it anymore), as they think all of them are damaged.
I wonder how many other places are getting damaged covers?
- Legends said 400+ of their 500 copies were damaged
- Jak's said most of, possibly all of their had minor damage
- Vault is reporting that all their copies have minor damage
Legends said they had enough undamaged copies to fill all the pre-orders and Jak's said they'd pick out the best looking ones for my group order, so we should be good with those. Vault is giving me a couple days to make sure nobody wants to drop out of the group order (let me know if you don't want it anymore), as they think all of them are damaged.
I wonder how many other places are getting damaged covers?
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Re: IDW Usagi Yojimbo #1 in Previews
From what I've heard there were a good amount of damaged Vess covers too.jabba359 wrote:I wonder how many other places are getting damaged covers?