These days, pretty much every convention big enough to have a line problem at registration tries to alleviate said line by diverting as many people over to other places as possible… and there’s almost always a whole slew of NEW[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, just to be clear, most cons that know what they’re doing deliberately enforce a buffer zone between the end of one panel and the beginning of the next one, specifically to ensure that the host of the next panel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s honestly pretty weird that I automatically got nostalgic for Ye Olde Animazement when nobody could get in on Sunday due to fire alarms. I mean, it’s not like there haven’t been fire alarms at other cons I’ve attended or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, seriously, you people are SCARY. I one hundred percent believe that your average band of cosplayer kids could easily tear a wild gazelle apart with their bare teeth, blood drenching their wigs, viscera caking their prop wings, profanity-riddle tweets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years and years of writing Far Out There has revealed that I have a deep, abiding impulse to make all my characters as likable and sympathetic as possible. That’s fairly limiting in the long run, and I really need to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve kind of done a page on the whole “nerds don’t know when to shut up” topic, several times in fact (note to Future Me: remember to come back and put a link to that one ConCONcon 2019 page when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: What’s this? A recurring narrative storyline involving Those Three Kids? Well, not quite. At least, not to the extent of that one Ichibancon series. To be perfectly frank, I just wanted an excuse to slip in more plugs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, I wrote the bit about “telling the story that’s in front of me” without remembering that this was the next page. I’m not clever enough to do that on purpose. But yes, this happened exactly as shown,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: This is another one of those instances where I really wish I still had the original commentary for this page, because it represents an interesting transitional period in this comic’s life. Or, to be more precise, it captures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, now THIS feels like ConCONcon as we now know it, clearly based on Real Life but presented in enough of a caricatured form as to hopefully avoid being directly sourced back to any one incident. As a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…