Some important context that I couldn’t find a way of fitting into the comic itself: the traffic situation surrounding Washington DC is… less than ideal. Basically, we were approaching the city from the opposite side of where the hotel was,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The older I get, the more I go on record as thinking conventions are not a healthy place for kids to be. However, I don’t think I’ve properly acknowledged just how much the presence of kids is also a risk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The funny part is, the bulk of my convention volunteering experience back in the day consisted of running Video Rooms, and one of the main jobs was PREVENTING this exact behavior. My how times change. Also, because Lord knows when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And make no mistake, I spent a VERY long time rooting through EVERY SINGLE BARGAIN BOX, just to make sure I didn’t miss anything interesting. When I set my mind to it, I can be VERY through. Actually, there’s one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The nice thing about going to a con that’s both right here in town and only one day is that there’s a lot less preparation required before going in. The downside of that, though, is sometimes there’s a certain level[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeeeaaah… I think some apologies are in order to Cosplay America, because you did NOT get the best me this weekend and it’s entirely my fault. As I mentioned over on the cover page, this was one of those cons[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I’m gonna have to come back to the commentary for this page and rewrite it in a bit, because of COURSE the one Awesomely Bad panel where this big Tarako prop debuted was at the one Animazement left to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Look, If I’m gonna be this much of a jerk about tearing the convention scene a new one, the LEAST I can do is be up front about the ways in which my opinions JUUUUUST MIGHT not be one hundred[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, just as a reminder to anybody who either forgot or didn’t know, I HAVE camped out in the parking lot for cons before. That’s not what I did here, though. A big part of the reason why I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For context, Bray Wyatt had been fired from WWE a week or two before this con, and WWE still owns the rights to all his gimmicks, so obviously even when Windham Rotunda makes his inevitable return to the ring, it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…