Denver Comic-Con 2013: Big Damn Heroes Always Shoot First Part Three
Ladies and Gentlemen, the final day of con
Are you ready for this, guys? Because I'll tell you when I woke up that morning, I wasn't ready for it. I couldn't even bring myself to cosplay on Sunday, that's how tired I was even being a responsible adult and going to be early. I used to sleep about two hours a night at conventions... it sucks to get past thirty.
The morning of Day 3 started pretty much like every other convention morning, with Starbucks and a chat with our exhibit hall line buddies. We walked the floor for our half hour of VIP superiority and picked up our Katie Cook original commisions. She drew our cosplay for me. A little Han and Mal saying "I have a good feeling about this" and handing out campaign bumper stickers. It's pretty much the best thing ever, and I don't feel guilty about spending too much money on it because Katie announced that she's pregnant again this week. I'm just donating to her child's diaper fund.
Shelly got a drawing of Jayne teaching Wash and Zoe's daughter about gun safety. It's the episode Gina Torres talked about in the Firefly anniversary special. The picture will give you cavities.
We also got Katie to draw a Claracorn so we could give it to Robin Thorsen who thought it was just adorable. Robin needs more fan support, and Katie needs more exposure. Everybody wins.
A final walk of the dealer's room left me with some Codex art from the original comic artist and a dice ring because Jason told me there were spinny dice rings. There were also spinny Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock rings, but I went with the dice because that's easier to explain than a tiny Leonard Nimoy on your finger. I rolled snake eyes on the first post-purchase spin, so I guess it's Wheaton-tuned.
We then lined up for Wil and Felicia's panel. There were about 10,000 people in line for this event with no exaggeration. There were abou 10 people in the VIP line, most of whom we'd already hung out with before. We had to sit all the way in the 5th row for this one because we were supposed to get our photo with Wil Wheaton at 12:30, and the panel ended at 12:20. We'd need to run.
Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day on a panel together is sort of my little nerd dream. They came out all stupid posing and smiles and I was just so sad I couldn't get better pictures. The essential topic of the panel was Wil makes fun of Felicia for being just too adorable.
Of course, the first questioner was creepy Alf, but Felicia couldn't see him well so she asked if it was a Monchichi. This cued a huge discussion on whether Monchichi's are cute or creepy (a hundred percent on Wil's side here. They are creepy, creepy dolls). Then Felicia started doing Monchichi expressions and sticking her thumbs in her mouth.
Wil: You know someone is going to GIF that all wrong. Psh, such a noob.
Felicia: Teach me, Wil
Wil: Someone's going to GIF that too!
Creepy Alf's question started out almost normal, asking if Simon Pegg would every be on Tabletop (maybe). Then he had to make it creepy by suggesting the ALF game, explaining the rules, and doing more creepy, creepy ALF impressions. Creepier than a Monchichi
Felicia: Oh this happened yesterday... I'm remembering now.
Someone else asked if there was any dream role either of them had. Felicia commented that she'd never gotten to be on a spaceship.
Wil: I spent most of my childhood on one. It's not as great as you think. You've never been on a spaceship?
Felicia: No, I never have.
Wil: You went to Titan, jackass!
This cued in a lot of Eureka talk and how much fun Eureka was to work on. I should watch that show all the way through someday.
Someone else asked about Supernatural, and Felicia responded that it was not a bad gig to work with tall, strong, handsome men being tall, strong handsome men. She also thanked the tumblrverse for the prayer circles that go up every time her character gets an episode, praying that said character doesn't die.
Wil: There are... prayer circles... on tumblr?
Felicia: Yeah, so Charlie doesn't die. They like to kill the women on that show.
Wil: How does that even work? Does someone start the prayer circle and then reblog
Felicia: Yeah, they just reblog
Wil: But then does the person who started it have to go back and say, 'okay, I officially close this prayer circle now.'
Felicia: I don't know! I didn't ask about the mechanics, I just thought it was nice. And I haven't died yet!
There was lots more inspirational talk on the future of web videos and how much fun it is to prove people wrong by being successful at things that would never work in the old market who are still working on programming their microwaves. The end of the gatekeeper and creative freedom etc., but the question that really struck me was whether or not Cubby would ever get his own show on Geek & Sundry. Cue five minutes of Wil Wheaton's impression of Cubby reviewing movies.
I can't paraphrase. Here's a video:
Felicia, I will totally watch this show as long as Wil Wheaton is the voice of Cubby.
There was more, but I'm actually working without notes from this panel because when it was over, we had to run to make sure we made the line before cutoff (which they said would be at 12:30) for Wil's photo booth. We crowd wove like masters, and thankfully, the VIP line wasn't as long as we feared. VIPs could get a free photo, you see, and our luck had been so good that we were sure it would come crashing down. The last panel ran long anyway, though, so there wasn't much to fear. We hung out with a guy dressed as a Sperm Whale and a bowl of Petunias.
Best. Cosplay. Ever.
They ran the photo line like an assembly line, but Wil saw Shelly's "Wheaton/Fillion 2012" t-shirt and called her awesome. I will vouch for her. He also agreed to do geeky thumbs up with us because he's fantastic. I look like a total goon in the photo, but I don't care. It's still going to be my FB cover for a really long time.
We had to wait for our photos, so we had a cheesy platter of pain at Chili's and I got sunburned on one spot of my right arm. Stupid partly shaded patio.
We debated sticking around for Katie's panel, but we were hot, tired, and in no mood to conquer the Brony herds that surround Katie now that she's doing the pony comics. So, we picked up our photos, hung our heads at what total goons we looked like, and headed home to read comics in air-conditioned apartments.
Final thoughts: I really don't know that I'll ever have this much awesome in one place ever again. I met multiple heroes of mine and got multiple once in a lifetime sort of experiences. I discovered new fandoms, made new friends, and made all of my old friends seethingly jealous. I will continue to support DCC for as long as they stay awesome. Here's hoping we can get Comic Book Classroom in D50.
Are you ready for this, guys? Because I'll tell you when I woke up that morning, I wasn't ready for it. I couldn't even bring myself to cosplay on Sunday, that's how tired I was even being a responsible adult and going to be early. I used to sleep about two hours a night at conventions... it sucks to get past thirty.
The morning of Day 3 started pretty much like every other convention morning, with Starbucks and a chat with our exhibit hall line buddies. We walked the floor for our half hour of VIP superiority and picked up our Katie Cook original commisions. She drew our cosplay for me. A little Han and Mal saying "I have a good feeling about this" and handing out campaign bumper stickers. It's pretty much the best thing ever, and I don't feel guilty about spending too much money on it because Katie announced that she's pregnant again this week. I'm just donating to her child's diaper fund.
Shelly got a drawing of Jayne teaching Wash and Zoe's daughter about gun safety. It's the episode Gina Torres talked about in the Firefly anniversary special. The picture will give you cavities.
We also got Katie to draw a Claracorn so we could give it to Robin Thorsen who thought it was just adorable. Robin needs more fan support, and Katie needs more exposure. Everybody wins.
A final walk of the dealer's room left me with some Codex art from the original comic artist and a dice ring because Jason told me there were spinny dice rings. There were also spinny Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock rings, but I went with the dice because that's easier to explain than a tiny Leonard Nimoy on your finger. I rolled snake eyes on the first post-purchase spin, so I guess it's Wheaton-tuned.
We then lined up for Wil and Felicia's panel. There were about 10,000 people in line for this event with no exaggeration. There were abou 10 people in the VIP line, most of whom we'd already hung out with before. We had to sit all the way in the 5th row for this one because we were supposed to get our photo with Wil Wheaton at 12:30, and the panel ended at 12:20. We'd need to run.
Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day on a panel together is sort of my little nerd dream. They came out all stupid posing and smiles and I was just so sad I couldn't get better pictures. The essential topic of the panel was Wil makes fun of Felicia for being just too adorable.
Of course, the first questioner was creepy Alf, but Felicia couldn't see him well so she asked if it was a Monchichi. This cued a huge discussion on whether Monchichi's are cute or creepy (a hundred percent on Wil's side here. They are creepy, creepy dolls). Then Felicia started doing Monchichi expressions and sticking her thumbs in her mouth.
Wil: You know someone is going to GIF that all wrong. Psh, such a noob.
Felicia: Teach me, Wil
Wil: Someone's going to GIF that too!
Creepy Alf's question started out almost normal, asking if Simon Pegg would every be on Tabletop (maybe). Then he had to make it creepy by suggesting the ALF game, explaining the rules, and doing more creepy, creepy ALF impressions. Creepier than a Monchichi
Felicia: Oh this happened yesterday... I'm remembering now.
Someone else asked if there was any dream role either of them had. Felicia commented that she'd never gotten to be on a spaceship.
Wil: I spent most of my childhood on one. It's not as great as you think. You've never been on a spaceship?
Felicia: No, I never have.
Wil: You went to Titan, jackass!
This cued in a lot of Eureka talk and how much fun Eureka was to work on. I should watch that show all the way through someday.
Someone else asked about Supernatural, and Felicia responded that it was not a bad gig to work with tall, strong, handsome men being tall, strong handsome men. She also thanked the tumblrverse for the prayer circles that go up every time her character gets an episode, praying that said character doesn't die.
Wil: There are... prayer circles... on tumblr?
Felicia: Yeah, so Charlie doesn't die. They like to kill the women on that show.
Wil: How does that even work? Does someone start the prayer circle and then reblog
Felicia: Yeah, they just reblog
Wil: But then does the person who started it have to go back and say, 'okay, I officially close this prayer circle now.'
Felicia: I don't know! I didn't ask about the mechanics, I just thought it was nice. And I haven't died yet!
There was lots more inspirational talk on the future of web videos and how much fun it is to prove people wrong by being successful at things that would never work in the old market who are still working on programming their microwaves. The end of the gatekeeper and creative freedom etc., but the question that really struck me was whether or not Cubby would ever get his own show on Geek & Sundry. Cue five minutes of Wil Wheaton's impression of Cubby reviewing movies.
I can't paraphrase. Here's a video:
Click to viewFelicia, I will totally watch this show as long as Wil Wheaton is the voice of Cubby.
There was more, but I'm actually working without notes from this panel because when it was over, we had to run to make sure we made the line before cutoff (which they said would be at 12:30) for Wil's photo booth. We crowd wove like masters, and thankfully, the VIP line wasn't as long as we feared. VIPs could get a free photo, you see, and our luck had been so good that we were sure it would come crashing down. The last panel ran long anyway, though, so there wasn't much to fear. We hung out with a guy dressed as a Sperm Whale and a bowl of Petunias.
Best. Cosplay. Ever.
They ran the photo line like an assembly line, but Wil saw Shelly's "Wheaton/Fillion 2012" t-shirt and called her awesome. I will vouch for her. He also agreed to do geeky thumbs up with us because he's fantastic. I look like a total goon in the photo, but I don't care. It's still going to be my FB cover for a really long time.
We had to wait for our photos, so we had a cheesy platter of pain at Chili's and I got sunburned on one spot of my right arm. Stupid partly shaded patio.
We debated sticking around for Katie's panel, but we were hot, tired, and in no mood to conquer the Brony herds that surround Katie now that she's doing the pony comics. So, we picked up our photos, hung our heads at what total goons we looked like, and headed home to read comics in air-conditioned apartments.
Final thoughts: I really don't know that I'll ever have this much awesome in one place ever again. I met multiple heroes of mine and got multiple once in a lifetime sort of experiences. I discovered new fandoms, made new friends, and made all of my old friends seethingly jealous. I will continue to support DCC for as long as they stay awesome. Here's hoping we can get Comic Book Classroom in D50.