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…
If you are in the same building as me and start talking about Digimon, I WILL HEAR YOU. I may be too awkward to walk over and join in the conversation, but I WILL hear you. (Historical Notes: Well, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can’t really judge, mind you. I read everything up to the big hiatus (in my amazing sense of timing, I finally finished my archive binge and got caught up THE VERY DAY that hiatus was announced) and honestly didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have I sufficiently expounded upon the theme of my distaste for extended periods of isolation behind an Artist Alley table? (Historical Notes: I… THINK this dude was actually cosplaying as a character from One Piece, but I’m not sure enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apologies to Omake Ikuze for repeatedly trying to drown their panel in the all consuming cloak of darkness, but we really didn’t know that all the panel rooms on that side were connected to the same set of switches. I[…]↓ 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…
I’m sure there are actual videos of what we got up to at the panel this year, but I haven’t had time to look anywhere other than the Awesomely Bad tumblr and Facebook pages, and nobody posted anything there. Poke[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Context: as a crowd-occupying measure, some of the staffers spent the time before Opening Ceremonies actually started teaching everyone that dance from the closing credits of Yo-kai Watch, with the intention of making the whole crowd do the dance at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year that goes by, I find myself sinking deeper and deeper into my roll of “Old Otaku Who Only Talks About Anime The Younger Fans Have Never Heard Of”. Then I tell them to get off my lawn. Oh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…