(Historical Notes: Okay, I wrote the bit about “telling the story that’s in front of me” without remembering that this was the next page.  I’m not clever enough to do that on purpose.  But yes, this happened exactly as shown, and I absolutely was NOT going to draw this from any other angle.  I do kind of wish Past Me had written a bit more about all the hanging out with people I did over the final couple of hours before the Dealer’s Room shut down, but it was folks I normally saw at the photoshoot, so I think I was trying to avoid that topic as much as possible.  Yet again, that should have been THE WHOLE POINT OF THESE COMICS- okay, I’m done.  That dead horse as been thoroughly beaten.)