I’ve really slacked off on featuring the mascots in this run of ConCONcon comics, haven’t I? I’ve also really slacked off on presenting the specifically hotel-related experience of conventions, what with the whole “I just commute and eat lunch in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve kind of done a page on the whole “nerds don’t know when to shut up” topic, several times in fact (note to Future Me: remember to come back and put a link to that one ConCONcon 2019 page when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well now, THIS is a totally unbiased and even-handed comic, huh? No strawmen getting knocked over here, no sir! Yeah, I actually had to go back and re-write the lines in the first panel to make my “idealized” panel a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and ANOTHER long wait between new pages. I swear I’m not INTENTIONALLY turning Conventional Wisdom into a bi-weekly comic, it just keeps working out that way. THIS time, the problem is that I wanted the old re-posts to get to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
DANG IT, I went and did it again. Sorry about ANOTHER lapse, especially since this was pretty much the exact same situation all over again. I had a comic idea I was going to go with, then thought better of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mean, it’s obviously not ALWAYS like that, but even just occasionally is enough. I’m not even making up the bit about getting a big stack of printed material from a complete stranger (which, no, I never bothered reading). Anyway,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve actually done whole comics on the “remember when they talked about ANIME at these anime conventions?” topic, and I SURE DO WISH I COULD POST SOME LINKS TO THEM RIGHT HERE. Hopefully I’ll remember to come back and add[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Hideaki Anno had his first big falling out with anime, he had some particularly unkind words about Otaku and mental illness that I won’t repeat here, but can see where he was coming from. Ask anybody to share their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I freely admit that this COULD largely be me and my own inability to remember certain things, but the very fact that there’s enough variety out there for me to get confused over is still worth complaining about. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Dang it, I am NOT making Saturday into the new Conventional Wisdom update time. Just bear with me, I’m gonna try to get back into the Wednesday groove as soon as I can) There are many difficulties that come from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…