(Historical Notes: No, I didn’t make this up for comedic effect. This one hundred percent happened exactly as depicted. Otaku have absolutely sense of self preservation… which explains an awful lot about what we choose to do with our lives. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I tell ya, every time I think the convention scene has run out of random weirdness to throw at me, something like this happens. For all the wonky things I’ve seen at panels over the years, I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Now we start drifting back into that realm of me really REALLY wishing I could recover the original SmackJeeves commentary for this page. I’ve got a sneaking feeling that, despite what the comic implies, Past Me still managed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Man, I really HAVE been complaining about this for a long time, haven’t I? By the way, despite the implication of the bottom panel, I’ve never actually submitted a panel to a convention on my own. All my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I left this one deliberately vague at the time, both because it involved things I wasn’t personally around to witness and because it involved behind the scenes stuff with staff and I didn’t want to throw anybody under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Hey, you know that I was saying earlier about how this was only the second PPV I’d watched in the company of others? Well it also remains the ONLY time I’ve actually watched a show live as it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: You know what? I’m not even going to try to explain all the storyline stuff that was going on with Kazuchika Okada around this time, it’s probably funnier for those of you who don’t know if you just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, so here’s the deal. Kurt got approved to do his “Intro to Japanese Wrestling” panel at MAGFest, and being a cool dude, added me as a co-panelist so I could get a comped badge. Now, both at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s a bit weird that I crammed the two halves of this comic into a single page instead of letting them stand on their own, because they don’t really NEED each other to exist. It’s not as if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: First of all, the weird visual set up for this page is basically me trying to visualize the fact that, yes, I really did only wander in to the last five minutes of the preceding panel. Or, more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…