(Historical Notes: No, seriously, you kids today have NO idea how much faster registration has gotten in the smartphone era. I still remember my first few cons, where I had to show somebody a photo ID and a printout of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Look, just because I won’t pay to stay in a hotel if I can help it doesn’t mean I’m averse to hanging out in a room someone ELSE is staying in. And it’d just be rude to not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, this is another one where I REALLY wish I still had some form of the original SmackJeeves commentary available, ‘cos I’m not at all sure if there was ever a public version of this page without the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s amazing how much we cling to the familiar just because it’s the only thing we know. This was my first Animazement EVER commuting, and the first one in a while since that handful of little cons in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: You know, it’s funny. Back before this comic started, when my “convention coverage” consisted of text blogs on Facebook, I used to be able to crank those out within a week of getting home. They were sloppy, typo-riddled,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. And there you have it! Animazement 2016! Sorry it took so freakin’ long, but even with several planed pages dropped, this still came pretty dang close to being the longest Conventional Wisdom update ever. Pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Confession: even my own wildly eclectic -and highly forgiving of easy listening and smooth jazz- musical tastes don’t actually include very much John Tesh. But if the punchline had been “Listening to Mark Isham, Peter Maunu or The Rippingtons”, no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve ever read any Conventional Wisdom whatsoever, you already know that I never pass up a chance to play Saturn Bomberman on a big ol’ projector. Also, for a page that’s four-fifths the Copy/Paste command, this page took FOREVER[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m honestly not sure which I feel worse about: the fact that I couldn’t buy anything from anybody, or the fact that I honestly had no idea who I’d been sitting in the same room with all weekend until the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THIS IS THE PART WHERE I REPEATEDLY ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON, REMINDING YOU OF THE ADDITIONAL ANIMAZEMENT COMICS THAT WILL BE POSTED THERE LATER ON- AS WELL AS ALL THE OTHER FAR OUT THERE AND[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…