IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! IT’S ACTUALLY REAL! CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS GOING TO AN ACTUAL ANIME CONVENTION AGAIN! …and it’s not Otakon, is it? Yeah, sorry to everybody who asked me about that, but traveling up to DC still isn’t in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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OKAY! A week or two late, but HERE WE GO! Just in case you somehow missed all the previous excuses/explanations/warnings, all these website upheavals have left me so far behind on everything that I wound up heading out to Ichibancon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…then again, the one that happens in Raleigh is subtitled “Oak City,” and I only barely knew that “City of Oaks” is a thing anybody calls that town, allegedly. Wake Forest could turn out to be named “Land of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: That’s right, I passed up on going to Otakon this year in favor of a little, one-day, local event run by the town comic book shop. And you know what? It may not have done viral internet traffic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, I kind of made a bunch of new flyers in 2019, in case you can’t tell. This is what the bottom of every convention center trash can in the southeast looks like after I’ve been through town. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Hey look! A totally subtle and not at all intrusive excuse to plug the ConCONcon shirt! …and also the non-Staff variety! How did THAT end up here? No, but seriously, here’s another set of ConCONcon comics… or at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Maybe it’s just because I was able to recover the old commentary for that previous batch of filler pages, but I REALLY wish I had my original thoughts for this set of comics. I remember at the time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I’m somewhat surprised that I never tried to do a Dark Side of the Moon reference with the pyramid up top of the Galleria. Past Me was NOT on the ball this that one. Then again, Past Me[…]↓ 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: I really have no idea where this cover idea came from. I guess I was trying to revive the whole city skylines idea from a couple years back or something, since that really is the shapes of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…