Conventional Wisdom

Okay, so this is sort of a rehashed second take of a comic I’d WANTED to do around the start of this set… only to realize I didn’t have the right pictures to use as backgrounds.  See, the hallway where they set up the game room for the con was also where the stairs empties out into the lobby.  We went up there on Thursday evening, and the hallway was completely empty.  I didn’t have to come back down those stairs again until Friday afternoon, by which time the hallway had suddenly sprouted all these big, noisy arcade machines.  It was a rather disorienting experience… but I forgot to take a picture of that particular hall while it was empty, so I couldn’t make a comic on it work.  It DOES work for the packing up experience, though, which was disorienting in its own way.  Things upstairs were more or less dead by lunch time, but the game room down below kept chugging for a good while longer, and the shift in energy levels was pretty extreme.  As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the museum was pretty darn isolated from the rest of the con, and this really slapped me in the face with that fact one last time.