This is sort of the reverse of when I thought I’d lost my hat several Animazements ago. I honestly thought I wasn’t concerned about the prospect of all my cosplay plans being wrecked… right up until the moment I discovered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, this one’s going to take a bit of explaining. A lot of Conventional Wisdom owes its existence to an impossibly nerdy cartooning project I embarked on back in college. I was in a Humanities course called The History of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All I’m gonna say here is that I have to bite my tongue every time I hear someone say “Hey, I watched that kind of stuff when I was a kid and I turned out okay!” (Historical Notes: There was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Awesomely Bad cosplayers actually aren’t a new development, but this was the very first time any of us managed to actually get some pictures of the wondrous event. Hurrah! (Now, when is somebody gonna cosplay as the robot from that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t worry, Servo didn’t have another horrible accident this year. I just got tired of his string constantly snapping so I decided to replace it with fishing line… which I of course never got around to doing until Friday morning…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and so I just burned it. (Historical Notes: This is still one of my favorite of these early ConCONcon pages. It’s a perfect balance of being blatantly unrealistic, yet still totally identifiable.)
Things Cosplayers Say. Also, it didn’t occur to me at the time, but I’m 99.9% sure I took a selfie with this dude back at Ichibancon.
Like I said before, it wasn’t REALLY the sitting at a table for long periods that I minded. I actually WANTED to spend most of this con in one place, only I’d expected to spend most of that time working[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The irony of course, is anyone who only reads these comics and has never seen this costume in person will have no idea what I’m talking about… as I never draw my glasses any differently even when I DO wear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, though, how does a tweet from last year just spontaneously blow up like that? How does anybody even find it? It didn’t even have the same MAGFest hashtag as the one everyone was using this year? Clearly, I still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…