Braindead
Hello hello again!
This will be another quick update as I'm very tired!
We are officially back from our back-to-back(-to back) conventions! Last time, I talked a little bit about the AZ Comic Book Arts Festival, which was a great comic creator focused show. I'll say it again and again: it was awesome doing a show devoted to comics and comic art, because as much as I love the many other expressions of pop culture, sometimes it's nice to really focus on comics and the people who make them.
Also in the between times, Becca and I made a trip out to Dallas, TX, for them to table at WaifuExpo. This week's blog includes a little photodump from that trip, though if you want to see more, they're over on my Instagram and Becca's Twitter! It was our first 18+ show and it was a lot of fun! Some brief stories to share:
The Weather! Much like the previous week, we're leaving San Diego, and get out to the mountains and there's snow! Fortunately, again, we pretty much missed having to drive in it--it was piled by the sides of the road, but the roads themselves had been cleared. But it's still kind of unexpected and glad we get through it safely. Things are pretty uneventful until we get to TX--a bit of rain, a bit of wind, whatever. Our first morning in TX, at our halfway point hotel, the snow has caught up to us, but again, doesn't really last and we don't have to drive through it. The rest of the trip that day, we go from snow to rain to winds so strong we couldn't pick anything up at a gas station because we didn't have cash on hand and the wind had knocked out their internet to a dust storm that is fortunately thin enough that we can safely drive through it, but large enough that we were going through it for a couple of hours. We get to Dallas and back into the rain. We finally get to our hotel and... the rain's so bad, it's knocked the power out entirely. They have a sister location a few blocks over that does have power that can send us to, but it's a helluva way to start the stay. And the next morning, we get the full picture of how bad it was: some roads had flooded in the night and a tornado had gone through the area like just before we had arrived. The trip back was a lot less eventful, just kinda rainy, but seems like we hit almost every weather event we could on the way out.
The Cash Box! We weren't staying in the hotel that the convention was being held at, we were at another one in town, about 15-20 minutes away. Not a bad distance, but definitely not something we'll be doing again if we do this show, because on Sunday morning, I think, we pull into the parking lot for the show. We start to get out and head over with just a couple minutes before the floor opens... and I realize we forgot the cash box and therefore can't do any sales. Becca goes to set-up and I get back in the car to go back to our hotel and grab it. I do just that, get back to the show parking lot... and I've only grabbed the cash box, but not the cash box key. So I had to do the trip AGAIN. Finally, I get back like an hour after the show's opened and fortunately everyone who had wanted something was super lovely and swung back by once we could do sales, but sure took a while!
The Bunny Suit! One of the fun things the con did was theme days for anyone wanting to come in cosplay. Saturday's theme was bunny suits and people really went all out. Becca went as bunny Bulma from Dragon Ball and we got a few pics of them with other bunny Bulma cosplayers, which is fun. But the other thing that was very fun, is clearly so many people at this show got the bunny suit memo at the same time and acquired their costumes at the same time: I swear, 1 out of 4 bunny cosplayers was wearing the exact same body that Becca got, so we all got to joke about that!
I'll be excited to see how that show grows next year and in the years to come!
And yesterday I made a brief trip to TFCon LA to see a bunch of my TF friends, many of whom only get out my way once a year or so. I completely failed at taking any pictures there, but it was nice to see so many folks!
What I enjoyed this week:
Blank Check (Podcast), Honkai Impact (Video game), Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Anime), sleeping in my own bed (eventually), how cuddly the cats were after we got back, Poker Face (TV show), Perfect Match (Trash TV), my very interesting Twitter poll about if folks want to see more adult, 18+ content in their physical comics (short answer: overwhelmingly yes), seeing old friends and making new ones, uhh... probably other stuff, but again, braindead from tired.
New Releases this "week" (3/1/2023 & 3/8/2023):
Sonic the Hedgehog #58 (Editor)
Godzilla Rivals: Mothra vs. Titanosaurus (Editor)
New Releases next week (3/15/2023):
Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection, Vol. 3 (Editor)
The Kill Lock: The Artisan Wraith TPB (Editor)
Announcements:
Two real quick ones and then we'll get to the pictures!
WonderCon 2023: I'll be at WonderCon. Right now, my schedule is still pretty open, so if you'll be around and want to meet up, please drop me a line. I will not be at any particular booth, so the earlier we can figure things out, the better!
The new popculturepunk.com is coming! Becca's working on a shop-update now that we've got a break in cons we're tabling at as ourselves, but it's also going to be a slight update on the overall site. Hoping to have that live later today/tomorrow, but TBD!
Pics of the Week:
Picture dump from our trip! Featuring me, Becca, some cute cosplayers & guests, and some really giant packs of fireworks!
