This wasn’t a good year for me actually making it into things I wanted to see. Unless I went ahead and got in line stupidly early, I ended up stuck outside. I know, I know, people say that’s a given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m not sure what it is, but the Raleigh Convention Center is just a WEIRD place to try and form a line. I’m not sure if it’s the levels that only exists as half-way points between other levels, the turns[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Look, if you MUST sing at the top of your lungs while standing in line… and nine times out of ten, YOU DON’T, at least have the decency not so sing something deliberately annoying. Also, DON’T START LOUDLY SINGING A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The punchline is that I didn’t even need to get a “normal” badge, this year they let panelists just go right ahead and grab THAT badge on its own. WHOOPS! Then again, for as big as the line was, it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dude, if more conventions had winding stairwells next to their panel rooms, it would solve SO many problems. Of course, it would also help if more cons held panels in theaters with multiple balconies that NEED stairs in the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What can I say? I looked over the railing at a GIANT line waiting to get into the screening of Wolf Children, and right in the middle of everything was this solitary staffer with a sign to indicate where the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See, this is why my whole “come by the hotel lobby and I’ll sell you a print” scheme never would have worked. YOU DO NOT FIND OTHER PEOPLE AT OTAKON. It simply doesn’t happen. Heck, I barely saw the people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, the original draft of this had a LOT of internal monologue going on, some of which was actually kind of funny. But then it was suddenly dawn and I was still working on the dumb comics, so I replaced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See, here’s the thing: the overhead walkway that connects the Convention Center to the Hilton is… oddly designed. The Hilton side is higher up than the BCC side, but instead of doing the whole thing like a ramp, they put[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and the thing is, I USUALLY don’t do this. I’m the guy who usually mocks the people who wait in line for the Dealer’s Room, and I ALWAYS wait until after dark to go get my badge at Otakon. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…