I was not hugged by Sarah Connor
I only seem to write when there are conventions. This weekend was the Big Apple Comic-Con, but you see, that wasn't the point of the weekend, because it kind of sucked.
Now, we only went on Friday, so maybe we aren't being entirely fair. So here's fair:
Few people showed up on Friday and the dealers were hurting. I hear the same was true of Sunday. Saturday was actually pretty busy from what I hear, so good for them. However, I felt no need to go because I did all my shopping Friday night and there was no interesting programming on Saturday or Sunday. Friday was a Warehouse 13 panel that I might have wanted to check out, but they never put the schedule online and I wasn't going to ditch work early for an unknown quantity.
A lesson to all NYC convention organizers: make sure people have a damn good reason to skip work, otherwise they're not doing it. And don't complain if no one shows up on a weekday to your event; nerds have jobs and school to worry about.
So I bought that Supergirl issue I was missing only to realize I still need one more, also got every issue of Air except for #2 and issues #9-15 of the Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror annuals, except for #14. So in a way I left needing more than when I entered. Horrors.
The actual weekend was spent hiding from the weather. Looking back I feel like I didn't get much done. That sucks, but it's okay, I'll make it up later if I have to. We did watch Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and that was decent, and last night's Venture Bros. was confusing in between the funny bits.
Is anyone going to check out King Con Brooklyn next month? I'm actually kind of interested. Also? They have panels.
Now, we only went on Friday, so maybe we aren't being entirely fair. So here's fair:
Few people showed up on Friday and the dealers were hurting. I hear the same was true of Sunday. Saturday was actually pretty busy from what I hear, so good for them. However, I felt no need to go because I did all my shopping Friday night and there was no interesting programming on Saturday or Sunday. Friday was a Warehouse 13 panel that I might have wanted to check out, but they never put the schedule online and I wasn't going to ditch work early for an unknown quantity.
A lesson to all NYC convention organizers: make sure people have a damn good reason to skip work, otherwise they're not doing it. And don't complain if no one shows up on a weekday to your event; nerds have jobs and school to worry about.
So I bought that Supergirl issue I was missing only to realize I still need one more, also got every issue of Air except for #2 and issues #9-15 of the Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror annuals, except for #14. So in a way I left needing more than when I entered. Horrors.
The actual weekend was spent hiding from the weather. Looking back I feel like I didn't get much done. That sucks, but it's okay, I'll make it up later if I have to. We did watch Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and that was decent, and last night's Venture Bros. was confusing in between the funny bits.
Is anyone going to check out King Con Brooklyn next month? I'm actually kind of interested. Also? They have panels.