I did spent a wirdly long time standing around that machine waiting for people to clear out enough to take a picture, and did indeed bail on the picture I was PLANNING to take due to logistical difficulties. But people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, this must be like what those cosplayers with giant wings or hoop skirts that get in everybody’s way feel like, except in my case it was just a freakin’ FOOT. I didn’t just spend most of the weekend hanging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m rather annoyed at the moment. I’d intended to accompany this comic with a bit of a supplementary rant about conventions profiting off of drawing in a younger crowd without doing enough to actually clean up the environment being provided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gee, it’s almost as if this format wasn’t around for too long or something. But seriously, in all fairness, you mileage will probably vary regarding these things. I know that SOME people said they worked great, even as others insisted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, I want to be clear that this page isn’t trying to suggest that people just don’t care about the traditional big–screen Animazement Saturn Bomberman instillation AT ALL anymore, just that the crowd levels fluctuated wildly the one time I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…