Yes, of COURSE we wore the Manos ponchos at Awesomely Bad again. Why would we possibly NOT do that? By the way, the AMV Theater was in a completely different room than any of the previous times I was in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There, see? I DID do more stuff during the con than just pick up a badge! I got shot at by heavy artillery! Yeah, this is what that opening page was about: somebody went and got a T-shirt cannon like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Admittedly, I have no idea if Adult Swim even airs The Cleveland Show anymore, but the very fact that convention hotel rooms remain the only context in which I’ve EVER seem The Cleveland show, it will always been my default[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These days, pretty much every convention big enough to have a line problem at registration tries to alleviate said line by diverting as many people over to other places as possible… and there’s almost always a whole slew of NEW[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, it’d be highly disingenuous of me to pretend this was the WORST hotel I’ve stayed at. I once stayed in a hotel where people in another room reported finding a severed human toe, and I think that wins by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Okay, not gonna lie, most of the time I don’t even notice when a convention has a theme going for that year, which is kind of a shame since a LOT of them do, and seem to put a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, a momentous occasion like this demanded SOME kind of fanfare, right? Hitting up Otakon again is a pretty big deal for Conventional Wisdom. Not only has Ota been on the comic’s schedule for a while, but this is where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
FINALLY… CONVENTIONAL WISDOM… HAS COME BACK… TO OTAKON! That’s right! For the first time since… holy crap, 2018. That’s terrifying. But still, Conventional Wisdom returns to the con where it was born! Let’s see if it’ll be worth the frankly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, here’s where the stuff REALLY starts. With the cost of traveling to cons getting higher and higher, the pool of people I knew to travel out of state with getting smaller and smaller, and my general burn-out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…