This isn’t even the first time I’ve relied on this thought process to justify buying things… though I don’t think I’ve ever deliberately had my eye on setting up a big reveal THIS far in advance before. Gotta justify these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obviously, it helped that this was the first time Awesomely Bad had BEEN at AWA for quite a few years, but still. Any time we find out there’s a room full of people who don’t realize what they’re about to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
YEAH I ACTUALLY DID IT. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DOUBT THAT. No, but seriously, even before I actually lived in DC, the prospect of going to visit the officially designated “important” parts seemed profoundly uninteresting. And you’d better believe that[…]↓ 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…
LOOK AT THAT! Page one hitting the web the very first day after the con! Go me! This totally isn’t jinxing the rate at which future comics get done at ALL! Anyway, before somebody else says it: I know it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…what, you thought when I said I wound up actually doing something on Sunday, that meant something OTHER than standing around in the hall for hours digging up decade-old pictures on our phones? Hey, by my recent standards, that’s EXHAUSTING[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Look, I know I’m usually the first one to warn you about how gross the bathrooms at a con and be… and it’s usually for good reason. But it’s for that exact reason why I ALSO encourage finding the most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be clear, this is not me claiming to be an expert at convention-ing or anything else in life, just acknowledgement that any noob going through just ONE of my ten worst convention weekends would never even think about going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before anybody thinks I’m afraid to admit my own failings, I’ll freely own up to the fact that the one time I actually participated in a cosplay contest, I wasn’t much better than these kids. But the thing is, THEY[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The nice thing about going to a con that’s both right here in town and only one day is that there’s a lot less preparation required before going in. The downside of that, though, is sometimes there’s a certain level[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…