(Historical Notes: There are fewer and fewer mainstream cultural events I bother paying attention to every year, but I still get up early Thanksgiving morning for the yearly waiting for those stupid Broadway numbers to get out of the way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: If you read any of those free Christmas blogs I put up on Patreon, you’ve already heard most of this, but I’ve developed a complicated relationship with the whole “Christmas starting too early” thing. For the longest time,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: And this, dear friends, is two thirds of the reason I quit going to MAGFest. Very little to do with the event itself, very much to do with how bad it was getting to try and find a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: …aaaaaaand one last bit of awkwardness. There is absolutely NO transition between this and the start of the AWA 2017 comics, since there was kind of sort of a whole set of Otakon comics after this page, only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, I remember even back when I did this comic, thinking that it would probably seem a lot less funny once MAGFest actually did roll around and actually I actually DID have a horrible scramble to figure out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Ahhhhh, good ol’ con crud. Nature’s way of reminding us all that literally everything about conventions is a mistake. Also, I’m gonna rehash a joke from the last page, but it bears repeating. I was too sick to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Yeeeaaaaah, this is a big confusing to look back on. As an experiment to try and retain interest during the time I spent working on the Otakon comics, I decided to ALSO do a steady stream of filler[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: If you don’t even pay enough attention to pay attention to get the joke, I VERY rarely swap out the TWC Voting Incentive for Conventional Wisdom. There’s only been, like, five or so since the comic started, because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: this is both the good and the bad thing about not squeezing as many conventions into a single year. I do get a lot more breathing room between the big trips, but that breathing room also makes it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I do still want a sign like that, but I think the better question now is how many people even still remember that the FLCL sequels even happened? As I write this in mid-2021, I still haven’t even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…