Desk notes
These are not star widgets. They are notes from collectors who reserved Deadpool covers, waited on inbound, or sat through a print-and-edition hour. One of them still wishes a ratio line had been louder.
I sent photos of my run through issue 12 and they refused to add Cover A again. The bundle that arrived was the three letters I actually lacked, bagged, with a note that the 1:25 never unlocked. I wanted the chase; I still paid only for what sat in the folder.
The walkthrough was slower than I expected — we spent twenty minutes on a crop I thought was identical. Seeing the print under the lamp next to the edition viewer was the first time I understood I owned two objects, not a backup.
Hold email named the file, the deposit, and the week the box was due. When the foil slipped a week, they wrote again instead of going quiet. The cover itself had a small corner rub from freight; they photographed it before I rode over.
I asked whether a sketch-cover Deadpool from a Manila shop stamp was the same as the Bangkok exclusive. The reply was two paragraphs and a no. That no kept me off a night bus.
Courier packing survived a wet week, which I care about more than witty emails. I still wish the incentive line had been clearer on day one — I skimmed the ratio and assumed it was promised. It was not, and the refund terms matched what they had written.
A collector sent a shoebox of Deadpool issues through 11, all A covers, plus two virgins bought on a trip. The gap was obvious: no incentives, and issue 8 Cover C missing because a shop had sold it as a “poster book.” We wrote a three-line bundle for the next overlapping window, marked the 1:25 as unlock-dependent, and packed the rest for courier before a storm week. The incentive never unlocked. The folder arrived with two covers and a refund for the third line. That is the story we tell when someone wants every chase promised in advance.
Another hour was only about one drawing. The print was a full-bleed Deadpool on a rooftop. The Marvel NFT comic edition used the same figure but trimmed the signage on the left. The collector had assumed the file was a moving version of the bagged copy. The pencil list from that session was three lines long. They kept both objects. They stopped calling the file a spare.