Remember that scene in Spinal Tap where everybody gets lost back stage? Yeah, I can totally see that happening at the Carolina Theater. I bet a bunch of those “signatures” were actually farewell messages from unlucky stagehands who lost their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure it comes as a surprise to everyone everywhere to hear this, but it turns out a bunch of excitable, nervous, nerds playing dress up are hard to keep quiet for five seconds. In retrospect, it’s a wonder the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I REALLY prefer to have a hotel room at the convention, even if it’s more expensive. The only reason I left the MAGFest concert early was because I needed that much extra time to get home and sleep, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, did you know that MAGFest was holding one of their Game Over shows in Durham that weekend? I sure didn’t, but it made the evening a whole lot more ROCKIN’. On a related note, I’d probably go to more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Believe it or not, despite cosplaying at virtually every convention I’ve ever attended, this was the very first time I’d ever competed in an actual contest. (True, I’d been in a few of those little competitions that Suncoast and FYE[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Carolina D20 Girls and Atomic Mari from Smosh did a really fun basics of cosplay panel. It was actually really hard to decide which funny bit to make a comic out of. I learned a LOT about setting costumes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dude, if more conventions had winding stairwells next to their panel rooms, it would solve SO many problems. Of course, it would also help if more cons held panels in theaters with multiple balconies that NEED stairs in the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, here we go: last convention of the year! If you’re reading this before the actual update, be warned that this one will probably be a shorter batch of comics than usual. I’m not doing any panels or manning any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, that’s right. After all this bellyaching about how tired I am from all these conventions back to back, what do I do? I ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THE SCHEDULE AT THE LAST MINUTE. Now, to be fair, I’d already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m still not sure what happened here, but something caused a whole chunk of consoles in the game room to wink out… and the rage was rather frightening. On a happier note, this was the first time I’d played classic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…