I’m always complaining about how I can’t stop buying at cons, but that was when penny pinching was more of an ideological thing that a matter of basic survival. This time, however, it literally was a choice between buying crap[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey! I get to plug Far Out There again! What are the odds of- okay, I’ll stop now. But while I don’t regret buying the new Today Nothing Happened, it DID motivate me to make a hasty exit from Artist’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, I could NOT afford to get suckered into buying any box sets or old manga or anything at the moment, so I hadn’t even planed on going into the Dealer’s Room at all this year… and then I got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, Animazement really WASN’T any worse than my usual con average, but it it DID briefly feel like it was going to be a lot better… until that den of thieves sucked me in. I ended up dropping cash for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s just an inherently funny word to me, and I’m glad I finally found a reason to cram it into a comic 🙂 (Historical Notes: …I don’t get it, Past Me.)
Yes, this makes two cons in a row where I’ve stumbled onto some really nifty Digimon stuff AFTER I’d already spent more than I ever needed to. In my own defense, though, I really have been keeping an eye out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t go thinking I grew some self-discipline or anything, I just hadn’t eaten yet and needed my cash for lunch. If I’d just a few dollars more on me, I’d have totally walked away with one of those bad boys.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyatt Regency always has space problems, and the Dealer Room seems to suffer the worst for it every year (what, you though we’d go a whole batch of comics without be complaining about the place?) This year was probably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, I’d actually been wanting one of these hats since I DIDN’T buy one at Katsucon, and I did get a discount as a reward for having already bought something from GBee’s table. Also, it’s not TECHNICALLY tie[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the back of the Merchant Room, Katsucon let a bunch of other conventions set up tables to hype themselves (not exactly a prime location, if you ask me) Anime USA’s table was staffed by employees of the Maid Cafe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…