I hope you are having a great holiday, Mr. B. While I may not always agree with you, I've enjoyed the back and forth. Re: variant covers, I concede our previous discussion to you. However, it would be nice if the ordering requirements were a bit more reasonable. Fan4 #1 will have 6 or so variants and even knowing they have a buyer for one of each, my comic shop can't justify ordering enough to get more than one or two. I can understand if they couldn't get the Ross covers, but this seems silly.
I don’t know about silly. It certainly can be onerous, I grant you. but that’s part of what makes that particular variant desirable, its scarcity.