For the record, that’s my Hungry Hungry Hippos nemesis from the AUSA comics. In case you can’t tell from the dates on those comics, we go waaaaaaay back. And in case you can’t tell from the context of this comic,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, it’s isn’t so much that the road in question had NO spots where turning around was an option… just none that a sane person with a healthy fear of getting t-boned by a truck traveling at 60[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, though, I do NOT understand what the aesthetic theme of that hotel is supposed to be. Most of the place is just generic sterile modern public places design, then randomly there’ll be a spot with these funky abstract polygon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Context, both for Miffy and also the fact that I’ve had a backlog of old prints to give away for a LOOOOONG time at this point. Like, I’d already broke even on the cost of getting them made, so at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To anybody showing up late, I’ve slept out in the parking for a con more than once. The people I know have never let me live it down, and rightly so, but it does tend to make me a bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That poor Scribbles plushie REALLY needs to get replaced with a newer, cleaner, less road-weary version soon. Incidents like this are really starting to take their toll on the thing. But yeah, despite Friday being bright and sunny and warm,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, some context: Ret-Con was in a very different direction than the overwhelming majority of the cons I’ve been driving to and from in recent years, yet it still went through the same intersection just outside of town as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, it’s entirely possible that this is only hitting me harder here than it would anywhere else due to my experience the last time I was in this specific hotel. But even with that disclaimer, I’m still on record as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, let’s be clear that I’ve seen FAR weirder scheduling in my time, including for panels I was actually on. Also, this was far from the first time Awesomely Bad had been scheduled for just one hour. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, just to be clear, it’s not so much that the con just didn’t realize that panels might need sound AT ALL. Rather, the plan seems to have been for panelists to just plug straight into the speakers in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…