You know what? A hearty Styx singalong is a good idea before any major undertaking. I’m gonna start suggesting that this happen more often. (Historical Notes: It helps if you understand that Awesomely Bad was sort of adopted by the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, seriously, Takayuki Karahashi’s done translating duties at… man, just about every con I’ve ever been to, all the way back to my very first Animazement. The only exceptions have been non-anime conventions, or just cons that didn’t have any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was this the first time they held Opening Ceremonies in one of the big halls? I don’t usually have the patience to wait in line for concerts, so I’m pretty sure this was the first time I’d ever down there.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This big story about Otakon this year is going to be the significant attendance dip… which is to say it was only SORT OF bigger than all the other cons in the area, rather than WAAAAY bigger. Considering what the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, context: me and Kurt are trying to get things set up so that I could still run these panels even in the event that he can’t make it to a con. This resulted in our trying to run Shoujo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, considering these two have been guests at… pretty much every single Animazement I’ve EVER attended, I have no idea how this is the first time they’ve been in a Conventional Wisdom comic. That’d sort of be like me failing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my own defense, bags full of pasta sauce mix are NOT very aerodynamic. But yeah, Awesomely Bad got even weirder than usual this year. I don’t go into detail, though, because that was just the tip of the iceberg.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and I somehow failed to actually get a picture of THIS awesome cosplay too! Man, I suck at this. Especially because I can’t overstate just how cool it is to do a panel and actually have somebody show up cosplaying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Clearly, Awesomely Bad has sold out to THE MAN. Context: right as the panel was starting, somebody came in and stocked the table with a day’s worth of water bottles. No warning, just all of a sudden there was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m reasonably sure this didn’t happen Saturday night, and even if it did I wouldn’t have been there to see it. All I know is that the sound system sounded TERRIBLE when we set up on Sunday, and the tech[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…