(Historical Notes: Okay, I’m obviously exaggerating here for comedic effect, but not by as much as you might assume. I’d already been having trouble with my phone for a while leading up to this, so I really shouldn’t have been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: HOLY CRAP IT’S CONVENTIONAL WISDOM’S TENTH BIRTHDAY! …I mean, sort of. Otakon 2008 actually started on August 8th, but they still overlap on the 10th. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. Conventional Wisdom started at Otakon, and this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: “Just when I thought I was out, they… stand in front of me so I have to awkwardly remain in.” Once again, I have to mock Past Me for taking a picture of the hotel lobby bar’s cringy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I know I say this a lot, but I really do like how Otakon would traditionally show all the AMV Contest winners during Closing Ceremonies. Like, not just read the names off of a list, but actually PLAY[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I I remember correctly, I had to specifically plan this page out to accommodate the angle of the one usable shot I could get of the main events stage… and by “stage” I mean one of the screens. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, there was this couple at the Digimon photoshoot dressed as Tri TK and Kari, and they had their little kid dressed up as Season 1 Matt. The temporal paradoxes of this make absolutely no sense, but that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, the thing you gotta understand here is that the Metro stop in question didn’t just have “a lot of parking decks.” It had an old parking deck that was blocked off to actual cars but not foot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s funny, when these Digimon pajama party/picnic/meetup things started, they were the wackiest and noisiest things I’d end up doing all weekend. Just click that tag down there and check out some of the older comics to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Look, it’s one thing if it gets a bit drizzly outside during a con. It’s another thing entirely if the convention center’s gutters fail and Artist’s Alley starts to flood. THAT’S the kind of thing that gets stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, you know how a lot of conventions have That One Thing everybody has to bring up when they talk about it? Well, if anybody brings up Otakon 2017 and they’re not just talking about the general awkwardness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…