(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: Look, just because I won’t pay to stay in a hotel if I can help it doesn’t mean I’m averse to hanging out in a room someone ELSE is staying in. And it’d just be rude to not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: See, stuff like this is why I can never truly stop going to conventions, and also why fully fictional stuff like ConCONcon is so much harder to come up with. I could sit locked in a room drawing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Yes, this is basically that one Animazement comic but twisted around to put a positive spin on things. Man, remember back when I used to put a positive spin on things? Yeah, I used to be stupid. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Why, it’s almost like the MAGFest staff, and by extention convention staffers in general, try to act like they know a lot more about things than they actually do! But that’s just crazy talk… right? Anyway, look! It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, half of this comic won’t make sense to people who can’t remember fleeting news stories from seven years ago. The rest won’t make sense to anybody who never went to the Wardman Park hotel when it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: The answer is “Yes,” but it changes nothing. The REAL question is if this is what the actual makers of Digimon Tri were thinking when they made so many parts of it objectively terrible. “MWAHAHAHAHAHA! TAKE THAT, PEOPLE[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Man, I was SO sure that this was going to happen during the authentic Shinto purification deal they did during Opening Ceremonies. All the doors were open, but you got to them via escalators, so a person could theoretically be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Confession: even my own wildly eclectic -and highly forgiving of easy listening and smooth jazz- musical tastes don’t actually include very much John Tesh. But if the punchline had been “Listening to Mark Isham, Peter Maunu or The Rippingtons”, no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year that goes by, I find myself sinking deeper and deeper into my roll of “Old Otaku Who Only Talks About Anime The Younger Fans Have Never Heard Of”. Then I tell them to get off my lawn. Oh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…