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…
There’s a good reason you so rarely see a new costume in these comics, and why the ones you DO see are usually made out of stuff in my closet: it’s just no fun to make new ones. I mean,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guess who’s not very good at making things, at least not things that last for a while? So, yeah, that’s one more thing I get to worry about over the next few weeks.
YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW FRUSTRATING IT WAS TO KEEP SEEING DIGIMON COSPLAYERS BUT ONLY AT TIMES WHEN A PICTURE WASN’T AN OPTION. Heck, I didn’t even bring one of my own Digimon costumes. THAT’S how bad off I was! …and[…]↓ 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…