348 – Convention Attention – ECCC 2025 Recap!!

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Hi, this is Christy Marks, creator of Gem in

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the Holograms. You’re listening to the Geekcast

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Radio Network. This is Geekcast Radio, episode

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348. Once again, we are bringing you our series

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inside GCR called Convention Attention. It’s

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been a while since we’ve done one of these, folks.

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It’s been about a year. So actually, it’s been

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a little bit less than a year, considering the

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last one was in August of 2024. But I am, of

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course, TFGO to Mike, joining me once again for

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the… Something we didn’t do last year because

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it was the mustard that was left off the hot

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dog. But the ECCCCCCC recap is the moose himself,

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the moose man himself, Mr. Christopher A. Morton.

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Hello, sir. How are you? Greetings and salutations

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all the way from the West Coast. That’s right.

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That’s right. And crowding the crowd work there

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is his good old buddy, Matt Crowder. He’s working

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the comic angle and everything else. How are

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you doing? Not too bad. That’s good, that’s good.

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We are recapping Emerald City Comic Con 2025,

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which was held from March 6th through March 9th

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at the Summit, a .k .a. Seattle Convention Center,

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out there in the great state of Washington. Yay!

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Yay! Huzzah! Yay! Oh, man. It’s been a while.

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I mean, I know we did the con catch -up last

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year, and I think the last ECCC we did was in

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2023, but man, I’ve lived here in Indiana for

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three years now. It’s hard to believe that I

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have not lived out there in Washington since

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2022. Oh, God. At the height of the great plague.

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No, at the tail end of it. It was the comet tail

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end of it, thank you. I don’t know. It feels

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like we’re still in it sometimes. I mean, seriously.

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Keep catching it. Yeah. Well, we caught some

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sort of hopefully final time of Agent Yellow

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and Red for the next… Anyway. Emerald City

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Comic Con 2025, like I said. I was trying to

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scroll. The problem with, and we mention this

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in every episode of these folks for the convention

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attention, the problem with going to any of the

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convention, the Comic -Con websites after the

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fact of the convention, it’s like, hey, guess

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what? Here’s 2026’s information. And it’s like,

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but I want to see 2025’s. And it’s like, I’m

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trying to scroll down the guest list of seeing

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all of the interesting guests that were probably

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there i my because they thankfully ec were they

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were they there okay were they there because

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there was a lot of changes like the day before

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tvs before the con they completely upset the

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con which we’ll talk about yeah um well i didn’t

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even get down half of the page i i stopped at

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alan tudyk and i’m like okay as long as alan

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tudyk showed up i don’t care who else was there

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did he Really? Did he show up? That’s what you’re

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here to answer, but you guys didn’t even show

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up, did you? No, we kind of showed up. We originally

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were scheduled to be part of the festivities.

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They just cancelled all the festivities. All

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of them. We should just claim if you’re going

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to a comic con, please make sure you good night’s

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rest before you go. Uh, you want to prep your

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time for walking and wear comfortable shoes,

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drink your vitamin C, um, really beef up on your

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vitamins. Yeah. Just so much vitamin C. So that’s

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our, our disclaimer before you go to a comic

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con. Always. So this one we went. Of course,

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it’s a Thursday through Sunday show. It’s a four

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-day show. Now, what’s a little bit different

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about this one, this is the third year that it’s

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premiering in its new convention center. But

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a caveat to that is a good chunk of the show

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is now back at the old convention center, which

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is about three blocks away. Mostly covered walking,

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but it’s still three blocks away. What killed

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this con a little bit. And, of course, a good

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artist friend of ours, Vegas James, had another

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booth there this year. And the main stage, or

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three of the main stages, plus a lot of the photographs

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and some autographs were in the old building.

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Now, the autographs and all that, I understand.

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It’s the main stage that was the big caveat.

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to this con. So a lot of people go off three

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blocks to the main stage, watch a show. They

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may have not returned back to the main show,

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which is the feeling a lot of the people in the

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con had. Because once they’ve taken that three

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-walk block, and understand it’s raining. Seattle,

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in its greatness of March weather, it was raining

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during the con. Granted, about, I’d say, a little

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over half the walk is covered. because you go

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through a nice covered kind of a tunnel area

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to get between the two on the streets. But it’s

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still enough rain where you get wet trying to

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get across the way to the courtyard into the

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next building. So the breakup of this con was

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more of the new invention that it’s gotten bigger.

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Now, our observation, well, especially James’

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observation was, it was a Road City Comic Con

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slipped into five stories. And they could have

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fit everything into that building. Now that I’m

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looking at it, I would probably argue a little

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bit because there was times when that building

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was still pretty crowded. There was areas that

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was a little crushed to get through at times.

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It ebbed and waved through, you know, how busy

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and crowded it was to how thin it got. So overall,

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I mean, that’s the aspects of a constant development

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as it starts to grow. And it’s amazing this building

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wasn’t built with more capacity. where they’re

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feeling that they have to use the old convention

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center because part of that was supposed to relieve

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the cost of the old convention center, which

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is practically three buildings, all condensed

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to one. And now it’s technically still three

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buildings, but separated by three. I have a theory

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that they have to do both buildings because the

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celebrities want their high -end hotels. which

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are right next to the Arch building, which is

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the old convention center. Those have connectors

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and can go from the hotel directly to the convention

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center. Instead of having to walk three blocks

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as a celebrity to the new convention center,

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they don’t want to do that. So they want to keep

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the Arch building for the celebrities so that

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they can stay comfortable next to their hotels.

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Pretty good theory. I mean, actually, that fits

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in line with our expertise in this con convention

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world of a lot of them having that expectation.

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The other big thing about this con that was different

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than others was the price of the con. We’ve never

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seen a Sunday ticket go for the same price as

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a Saturday ticket at $80 a shot. That was a shocker

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for us. And those that don’t know, Sundays usually

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end at five. And Saturdays usually end at like

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7. Well, actually 11 because 7 the con ends and

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then there’s all the after con events. Yeah.

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So big cost difference. And obviously you see

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the rising. I mean, you expect it. I mean, I

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remember the days when it was like 40 bucks to

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go to a comic con. Yeah, but it was $80 to go

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to three days at ECC when I started going. which

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is yeah incredible back in the day the cost of

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a saturday ticket oh that hurts my heart and

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see that actually hurts a lot other because not

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only that i mean everything in the con is a lot

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more expensive uh of course just the vendors

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alone now the other aspect of the con is for

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the people that go to the con set up shop um

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artist alley table how much they’re saying the

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table ran this year artist alley was around 500

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depending on who you know Which is double of

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what we used to back in the old days. The vendor,

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which is on floor zero, they’re pushing how much?

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So an interior like normal table is about $2

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,000. If you had an end cap or a large booth,

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$3 ,000. oh okay i know most of these are like

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you know for giant people that end up making

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money yeah that may end up making money but like

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how could anybody make money at having to pay

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wow that’s my yeah the margins are not there

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much anymore i mean artists even rs alley james

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walked away This is one of his better cons. There’s

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a lot of appreciation for the style of art he

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does, which is more he’s comic. And in past comic

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shows we’ve talked about, Vegas James, he’s done

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some more work outside the medium of his own

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stuff. He did work on the new He -Man comic that

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came out. So he’s established now. His style

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of work is just amazing. It’s beautiful, all

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very Marvel superhero style. He’s also runner

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-up two years ago at Road City Comic Con for

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the Quick Draw event. Congratulations. James

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has to come back and win that again. But his

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established style did really well. And there’s

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a couple other guys around there that did really

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well. Randall. Across the way, one of the other

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artists, I know he did really well. Gosh, he

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had a line of people. This is the other thing

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Matt noticed in the Comic -Con was the sketch

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art, the private one -shot work, was much more

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this year than we’ve seen in the past. For more,

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just basically headshots. What were the headshots

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you were seeing there, Matt? The prices for headshots

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have definitely hit inflation. There was a person

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that I got a head sketch from, a known… artist,

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it was like $100 for a head sketch years ago.

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At this con, he was $400 for a head sketch. There

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were people that I’d never even heard of that

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are just cover artists that are doing the Japanese

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style DC books and Marvel books that everybody’s

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all the rage for right now. They were charging

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$750 for a head sketch and they haven’t even

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done interiors. They’re just doing cover art.

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It was ridiculous how expensive. getting art

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done by people at the show. And I think it’s

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because of how expensive the fucking con tables

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are now. Except Randall. He was still pretty

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cheap. They work for much more affordable prices.

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And no, you’re saying that wrong. That’s Randy

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Emberlin. Oh, Randy. Sorry, Randy Emberlin. I

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was saying Randall, wasn’t I? Wrong one. Yep.

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Randy Emberlin has had the same price like his

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entire career, pretty much. And he’s a super

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nice guy. The other artists in Artist Alley had

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a big variety. The follower two was the Artist

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Alley again. This one actually took up just over

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half. I noticed a lot of the late rows, there

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was a lot of room between the booths, but more

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you ran to the other end. The L, the past L,

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row L was open. But when you get toward row A,

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it’s like they ran out of room. And the rows

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got much narrower. And boy, they got crowded

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really quick. It was hard to get through some

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of those. But a lot of variety. Returning comics,

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returning artists that I’ve seen. One of the

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ones I stopped at was Amy Chow. And then who

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else did I see? Trying to think of all the people

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I’ve came across. There was a lot of big name

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artists there too. Darn it. Matt, help me out

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here. What was some of the other ones we’ve come

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across? Brian Cook. Brian Cook was there. That’s

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who I was thinking. Butts on things. He showed

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back up there. He’s one of the regulars from

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the Northwest. Valentin. He was there. Oh, yeah.

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Valentin was there. Randy Amberlin, of course.

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Who was the guy that you bought the book for?

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Tom. I’m drawing a blank on his last name. Tom

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Zoller. No, Zoller was not there. I looked. I

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can find him. He did not show up to this con.

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I know he’s busy right now. There’s a couple

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of big -name artists that didn’t show up this

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year that normally show up. Katie Cook was there.

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Katie Cook did get there, and I actually stopped

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by her booth to see, but she was really busy.

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But the folks over at Beyond the Western Deep,

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they weren’t there. It was Alex and Rachel, which

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are artists that I absolutely love, and they

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do a great comic strip. But they didn’t show

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up because of the cost of the con. It’s the cost

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of the environment. A lot of Northwest people

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were there, not a lot of travelers from the East

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Coast were showing up this year. Certainly nobody

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from Canada. Yeah. Canadians were not coming

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across, which really hurt. Which you could tell,

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you could feel it, that there was a lack of fandom

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at the show. Yeah. Now, we always push for people

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to purchase at Artist Alley. If you go anywhere,

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it’s the place if you’re going to spend money,

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that’s who you spend it on. But I know people

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have come here and want to hear about, what about

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the big guests, the ones that have come across,

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the big name people? Well, this one, guys, all

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the five families, all of us went Saturday for

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one reason. The majority of everyone from Firefly

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were supposed to do multiple panels. They had

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to get together. That’s why we were going on

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Saturday. That was our whole focus, to see the

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cast of Firefly all together, ready to go. It

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was like everyone but Alan Tudyk. And Alan Tudyk,

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he was the last one to show eventually. Adam

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Baldwin was never on the schedule. Oh, Adam,

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that’s right. He didn’t show up. But still, it

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was the majority of the cast. So once they get

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it going, we’re all excited. The week before,

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it went to crap. Oh, no. They basically started

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pushing people out. of saturday because apparently

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a lot of the some of the cast members could not

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make saturday they made sunday so they moved

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all the panels now the one big change on this

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comic -con i gotta mention was the assigning

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of panel booths or seats so you bought your tickets

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and you had three panels that you can get priority

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seating for so you get your name on the list

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you had to show up 30 minutes early and you’re

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guaranteed to get into that panel And if you

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didn’t show up, your seat would have been given

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out by the time they let people in. It’s a priority

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seating thing to help try to ebb in the flow

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of people coming into these panels, especially

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the big ones, because the main stage wasn’t quite

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as big as it was before. So that was the big

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change. So everyone who signed up for Saturday

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stuff, nearly all the Saturday stuff for their

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paneling got canceled because Alan Duke eventually

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could not make Saturday. He only could do Sunday.

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So he ended up moving to a Sunday shift, and

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then Jules didn’t make it either. He canceled

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the day before. Yeah. So everybody was… So

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what you’re saying is the Firefly convention

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stuff got canceled just like the show. Pretty

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much. Pretty much. Did you read Pop Fox? Same

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person. Never seen them in the same building

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at the same time. Have you? Conspiracy. Yes,

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conspiracy. So that was a big change. I had the

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big draw. Some of the five family members went

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for all the autographs they can get. They were

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in line for quite some time to get all those.

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And pretty much their whole con, we could even

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hardly spend any time with them because their

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whole Saturday, even Sunday, was spent in the

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Arch building just standing in line to get autographs,

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which was beyond. I couldn’t do that. I mean,

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I got a few autographs, ones that I value today.

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But when I go to Comic -Cons, of course, Matt

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knows my big thing is the panels. I want to go

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see panels. I want to see information about beginning,

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intermediate people in the fields that they enjoy

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or about a fandom they enjoy. Well, you want

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to hear from the people, and you really can’t

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hear from the people standing in line waiting

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for an autograph when that’s a personal one -on

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-one thing. Would you like the personal one -on

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-one thing? Absolutely, great. But the point

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of the panel is so everyone can hear from the

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people that worked on or took part in or had

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a part in whatever it is, whether it’s a TV show,

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a movie, a comic, or whatever. That’s the point

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of the panel is to go to see the people that

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worked on it and get the overall group interaction

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more so than the individual interaction. I don’t

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know. Oh, yeah. Now, Firefly wasn’t the only

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draw. That was just one of their main attention

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getters for Emerald City this year. Right. Other

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people that have come or that arrived this year

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was Adam Savage. He had a pretty good line for

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his area. Bruce Campbell. who has an organ home,

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and I love the actor to death. He arrived. He

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was a great panel and great. Everyone loved getting

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their autographs and pictures with him. Denise

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Richards was here. Apparently, she grew a pretty

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large line. A lot of people were pretty excited

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about her. She was really nice. There was a Starship

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Trooper -like reunion where they had Van Dyne

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and that cast. And then Star Trek, Strange New

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Worlds had a bunch of cast members. So they had

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a big panel and Star Trek fandom. Really not

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much in the way of Star Wars this year, except

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for the black guy. He was the only Star Wars

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person. I can’t remember his name. Are you talking

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about Billy Dee Williams? No, the Stormtrooper

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from the new ones. Oh, John Boyega. Yeah. He

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was there, but no other Star Wars person. So

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it was kind of lacking in the Star Wars department

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for once. Seth Green arrived, but he didn’t do

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a panel this year. It was just he’s there for

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Autograph and Pictures. So he didn’t kick into

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the, which is a little bit different than what

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his style, but I’m heard he does a great panel

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if you can catch it. But that was the big groupings

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of them. They had a lot of other shows, voice

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actors that arrived. Of course, several of the

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Hell in the Boss, Hasbro Hotel, the actors like

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Alec Brightman, he showed up for it. Some old

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school voice actors from the X -Men days showed

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up. They were there signing autographs for voicing.

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They had the Dragon Ball Z voice actors of Vegeta,

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Piccolo, and Goku. That was a big… big time

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thing for people that are into anime. Nice. Nice.

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So that, that rounds up some of your big celebrities

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that came to this comic con. And now we can,

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if you want to, we can get into the grits of

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what the panels and the inner workings of the

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comic con were. Matt, what panels did you go

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see? I didn’t go to a single one. That’s right.

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You don’t do the panels. No, I was, I wanted

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to go do Firefly. That’s why I got a Saturday

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ticket. You’re right. And they canceled on you.

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Yeah. What panel did you go to, Chris? What did

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they talk about? I went to several panels. This

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is the first year they did a thing called The

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Tavern up on Floor 5. And it looks like this

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big tavern with these lights. And they had live

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shows of pirate shanties, one guy called Earl

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the Bard. They just ran music. So you can go

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there, sit down for a little bit, and just listen

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to If they had a tavern like this in Portland

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that ran all day long, I would go to it a lot.

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It was really nice. I actually enjoyed it immensely.

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There was like beanbag chairs by the stage and

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all the tables were set up. Those were really

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enjoyable. I caught two of the smaller panels,

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one on, or I caught four panels total. One was

00:21:43.329 –> 00:21:46.710
more, I stopped in and looked at some. Intro

00:21:46.710 –> 00:21:51.450
art, some intro into the world of writing. The

00:21:51.450 –> 00:21:53.509
big one I was really excited when I’m looking

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through the panels and I noticed someone who

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didn’t have a table booth, but was on a panel.

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And this is Travis Baldry. Now, if you don’t

00:22:02.049 –> 00:22:04.869
know, he writes a cozy little novel called Legends

00:22:04.869 –> 00:22:10.569
and Lattes. It is a fantastic D &D novel about

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a barbarian who retires to open a coffee shop.

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And it is the epitome of comfort or cozy novel

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writing, which kind of emerged during the start

00:22:21.009 –> 00:22:24.430
of the pandemic. No huge action scenes, no super

00:22:24.430 –> 00:22:28.549
suspense. It’s just everyday fantasy people dealing

00:22:28.549 –> 00:22:32.490
with, you know, real world issues. I was super

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excited about this panel. It had a lot to do

00:22:37.230 –> 00:22:40.410
with the writing styles of what he did. I absolutely

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loved it. So I get into this panel with a friend

00:22:43.619 –> 00:22:48.660
of mine, and we sit down there. There’s him.

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There’s two other writers. I can’t remember their

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names. One wrote the book, I remember, called

00:22:54.079 –> 00:22:57.099
Automated Noodles. It’s kind of a futuristic,

00:22:57.240 –> 00:23:00.220
robotic future. California separates from the

00:23:00.220 –> 00:23:02.920
United States in this automated society, but

00:23:02.920 –> 00:23:05.460
they lose the war. It’s about robots in San Francisco

00:23:05.460 –> 00:23:07.539
that just want to run a noodle shop. That’s all

00:23:07.539 –> 00:23:11.680
they want to do. Okay. Apparently, it’s a non

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-binary couple of robots, which I don’t get.

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Whatever. From the moment I sat down, the panel

00:23:20.420 –> 00:23:24.579
started, has zero to do with comfort writing

00:23:24.579 –> 00:23:28.680
and cozy novel creation. It ended up being all

00:23:28.680 –> 00:23:31.500
hate speech about the current government. Oh,

00:23:31.539 –> 00:23:37.400
no. How personal, non -binary. Rights are being

00:23:37.400 –> 00:23:40.299
offended or fronted by the government. I went

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through 45 minutes of this just while I write.

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It’s like, I don’t care about your sexual preference.

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I just want to hear about your book. Now, Travis

00:23:48.240 –> 00:23:50.319
didn’t really jump on that bandwagon, but his

00:23:50.319 –> 00:23:52.640
two people that were with him up there, and they

00:23:52.640 –> 00:23:56.259
had a moderator who didn’t moderate squat. Here’s

00:23:56.259 –> 00:23:58.619
another great example for Comic -Con, which I’ve

00:23:58.619 –> 00:24:01.660
complained to him. Get moderators that moderate

00:24:01.660 –> 00:24:05.619
the panel. Stop getting a moderator that cows

00:24:05.619 –> 00:24:08.400
down to a moderator. Now, I understand there

00:24:08.400 –> 00:24:10.880
are some moderators. Your best job is to get

00:24:10.880 –> 00:24:14.880
the hell out of the way. Let the people do their

00:24:14.880 –> 00:24:18.200
own thing. Because experienced panel people or

00:24:18.200 –> 00:24:21.299
professional actors will run the gambit. Like

00:24:21.299 –> 00:24:23.940
Will Wheaton. You don’t need to moderate Will

00:24:23.940 –> 00:24:27.440
Wheaton. That’s fine. William Shatner won’t even

00:24:27.440 –> 00:24:29.640
let you moderate. He’ll throw you off the stage.

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There’s only room for my ego. You must sit down

00:24:34.619 –> 00:24:38.640
with the common folk. Yes, exactly. But as we

00:24:38.640 –> 00:24:42.240
mentioned with SummerCon, we had the hell of

00:24:42.240 –> 00:24:45.079
a boss, husband, hotel moderator who just did

00:24:45.079 –> 00:24:47.480
a horrible job. And the same came with this panel.

00:24:48.059 –> 00:24:51.339
It was just all about all their sexual preferences

00:24:51.339 –> 00:24:54.599
are being affronted, how they went to only two

00:24:54.599 –> 00:24:57.940
sexes in the government. Now, the room, it read

00:24:57.940 –> 00:24:59.799
the room, the room was all cheering it on because

00:24:59.799 –> 00:25:02.519
that’s just, we’re in Seattle. I really don’t

00:25:02.519 –> 00:25:04.759
care. I wanted to learn more about Legends of

00:25:04.759 –> 00:25:07.259
Lattes, what next book they’re, because he wrote

00:25:07.259 –> 00:25:09.799
Bookshelves and Bone Dust, and there’s supposed

00:25:09.799 –> 00:25:11.519
to be a third book coming out. That’s what I

00:25:11.519 –> 00:25:13.440
wanted to hear about. What’s your third book?

00:25:13.500 –> 00:25:16.619
Because it’s a great series. Yeah. And I will

00:25:16.619 –> 00:25:20.940
do a whole podcast on cozy writing because that

00:25:20.940 –> 00:25:23.980
medium out there is really well and has never

00:25:23.980 –> 00:25:27.500
been represented in the writing community for

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many years. Yeah, we can do one. I just have

00:25:30.279 –> 00:25:33.359
to read the stuff first. That’s all. There’s

00:25:33.359 –> 00:25:36.259
a great audio book, too. The fact is, Travis

00:25:36.259 –> 00:25:40.420
Baldry reads his own works. Because he started

00:25:40.420 –> 00:25:43.660
narrating books for people. That’s how he got

00:25:43.660 –> 00:25:47.000
into writing. He narrated these books, and so

00:25:47.000 –> 00:25:49.220
he wrote his own and then narrated his own, and

00:25:49.220 –> 00:25:53.759
he does a really good job. Cool. It’s, again,

00:25:54.039 –> 00:25:57.839
not super big action or nothing. It’s just a

00:25:57.839 –> 00:26:02.500
person writing a good old coffee shop. So that

00:26:02.500 –> 00:26:04.680
was the down point of this Comic -Con, was coming

00:26:04.680 –> 00:26:07.359
to a panel. It had nothing to do with the panel,

00:26:07.480 –> 00:26:09.559
and I really wish they would get moderators in

00:26:09.559 –> 00:26:13.000
play. Not the only panel. And there’s other panels

00:26:13.000 –> 00:26:16.960
there that are specific to that genre. You know,

00:26:17.059 –> 00:26:19.960
there’s inclusive rights for everybody. There’s

00:26:19.960 –> 00:26:24.839
a quiet room for LGBT community if you need some

00:26:24.839 –> 00:26:27.619
space to talk or to relax. They actually set

00:26:27.619 –> 00:26:30.980
aside multiple rooms for that community. I mean,

00:26:31.019 –> 00:26:33.920
the con’s very open to that inclusiveness to

00:26:33.920 –> 00:26:37.619
everything. That’s great. Let them have their

00:26:37.619 –> 00:26:41.019
space. But I came to a room to learn about books

00:26:41.019 –> 00:26:43.319
and it just didn’t happen. It didn’t happen because

00:26:43.319 –> 00:26:46.039
they had an agenda for something completely different.

00:26:46.160 –> 00:26:49.579
And it wasn’t that you weren’t against hearing

00:26:49.579 –> 00:26:51.480
that. It wasn’t what you wanted to hear. You

00:26:51.480 –> 00:26:56.180
didn’t want an agenda in your ear. You wanted

00:26:56.180 –> 00:27:00.480
to know about the person’s work. That’s what

00:27:00.480 –> 00:27:02.319
you wanted to know about. That’s the information

00:27:02.319 –> 00:27:07.250
you wanted. That was the downside of the Comic

00:27:07.250 –> 00:27:10.049
-Con for that Saturday. I heard from my other

00:27:10.049 –> 00:27:12.430
friends that were actually at the Friday show

00:27:12.430 –> 00:27:16.509
and Sunday show that the con was pretty busy.

00:27:16.730 –> 00:27:20.490
The flow of traffic was all right. Now, Matt

00:27:20.490 –> 00:27:22.890
does read a lot of the comments that came across

00:27:22.890 –> 00:27:26.730
the Facebook site. You want to highlight a couple

00:27:26.730 –> 00:27:28.349
of those great little events that happened on

00:27:28.349 –> 00:27:33.190
there? At least this time there wasn’t a lap

00:27:33.190 –> 00:27:38.950
dance circle of minors. So they improved upon

00:27:38.950 –> 00:27:41.910
that aspect of it from a couple of years ago.

00:27:42.089 –> 00:27:45.549
So, so good job, but there was a lot of complaining

00:27:45.549 –> 00:27:50.509
about just little things that if you go to, I

00:27:50.509 –> 00:27:53.130
think there was a lot of new con goers and this

00:27:53.130 –> 00:27:55.250
is not the con that you want to go to as your

00:27:55.250 –> 00:27:59.910
first con. No, it’s way too big. And you don’t

00:27:59.910 –> 00:28:02.869
understand it. Like people that were special

00:28:02.869 –> 00:28:06.690
needs of like with a cane or something like that,

00:28:06.769 –> 00:28:09.710
complaining about how long they were standing

00:28:09.710 –> 00:28:13.609
in line to get autographs. And even in their

00:28:13.609 –> 00:28:16.269
comments, they were like, yes, the line monitor,

00:28:16.430 –> 00:28:20.609
they moved us over into the VIP signatures, but

00:28:20.609 –> 00:28:24.930
without having purchased the VIP pass to be part

00:28:24.930 –> 00:28:28.309
of that line. But they were still not. happy

00:28:28.309 –> 00:28:30.450
enough with that because they still had to stand

00:28:30.450 –> 00:28:32.910
there in line that there should have been chairs

00:28:32.910 –> 00:28:36.730
or something in the line so that they could sit

00:28:36.730 –> 00:28:43.390
down because the line took them 45 minutes yeah

00:28:43.390 –> 00:28:48.430
ungrateful little small things I’ve noticed because

00:28:48.430 –> 00:28:50.809
we’ve gone there so many times throughout the

00:28:50.809 –> 00:28:54.519
years I thought the con actually did better this

00:28:54.519 –> 00:28:57.940
year they had more chairs available throughout

00:28:57.940 –> 00:29:01.180
the con so people could sit down and not have

00:29:01.180 –> 00:29:04.019
to sit along the wall there’s still there’s never

00:29:04.019 –> 00:29:06.079
going to be enough chairs that you’re not going

00:29:06.079 –> 00:29:08.160
to see people sitting on the floor and up against

00:29:08.160 –> 00:29:11.000
the wall but they did a better job of having

00:29:11.000 –> 00:29:14.420
those rest areas available for people to sit

00:29:14.420 –> 00:29:17.420
down and tried to make the alleyways wider like

00:29:17.420 –> 00:29:20.240
chris said an artist alley until they you know

00:29:20.240 –> 00:29:24.279
miscalculated It was just a lot of nitpicking

00:29:24.279 –> 00:29:27.660
stuff that people I don’t think quite understood

00:29:27.660 –> 00:29:32.460
how cons actually operate. So overall, I think

00:29:32.460 –> 00:29:36.880
they did a better job, but it’s still not the

00:29:36.880 –> 00:29:40.160
Emerald City that I used to love to go to. And

00:29:40.160 –> 00:29:42.000
I would get a four day pass and I would stay

00:29:42.000 –> 00:29:46.200
all weekend. uh going to all the events and hanging

00:29:46.200 –> 00:29:49.140
out with all my friends and and doing stuff now

00:29:49.140 –> 00:29:51.299
it’s like uh do i even want to go up for one

00:29:51.299 –> 00:29:56.599
day right you for this con unfortunately this

00:29:56.599 –> 00:29:58.480
was the reason that we went up we went up for

00:29:58.480 –> 00:30:00.359
firefly and unfortunately got very disappointed

00:30:00.359 –> 00:30:03.240
because they all canceled you need to find something

00:30:03.240 –> 00:30:06.339
that you actually want to go do and see there

00:30:06.339 –> 00:30:08.200
otherwise it’s going to be a very disappointing

00:30:08.200 –> 00:30:12.109
con yeah So I know you guys went up specifically

00:30:12.109 –> 00:30:15.789
for the one day kind of thing, but did they even

00:30:15.789 –> 00:30:21.750
offer multiple day passes? Yes. Okay. Okay. I

00:30:21.750 –> 00:30:25.990
just wanted to make sure because the only pass

00:30:25.990 –> 00:30:29.750
that they sell out of is the four day pass. Right.

00:30:29.869 –> 00:30:32.730
And Saturday, that’s the only ones that they

00:30:32.730 –> 00:30:36.099
ever sell out of. Okay. If you want to go one

00:30:36.099 –> 00:30:38.279
Thursday, you want to go one Friday, you want

00:30:38.279 –> 00:30:42.700
to go one Sunday, those passes are usually always

00:30:42.700 –> 00:30:45.740
available. Saturday and the weekend passes are

00:30:45.740 –> 00:30:47.839
the only ones that ever sell out. And you’re

00:30:47.839 –> 00:30:49.779
paying through the nose for individual days.

00:30:50.099 –> 00:30:52.519
Yes. Well, yeah, of course. You’re going to pay

00:30:52.519 –> 00:30:55.900
through the nose for individual days. But, yeah,

00:30:55.940 –> 00:30:58.079
no, I was just kind of curious because you guys

00:30:58.079 –> 00:31:00.839
only did go the one day. I was like, but do they

00:31:00.839 –> 00:31:05.579
still sell the multi -day passes? I don’t know.

00:31:05.640 –> 00:31:09.480
And yeah, you’re right. It sounds like where

00:31:09.480 –> 00:31:17.660
ECCC is in their convention history here, it

00:31:17.660 –> 00:31:20.740
doesn’t sound like they are in any way, shape,

00:31:20.740 –> 00:31:28.200
or form looking to welcome in easily new people.

00:31:28.359 –> 00:31:37.220
No. They want the convention… who can run the

00:31:37.220 –> 00:31:41.380
gambit of the way that they set that show up.

00:31:41.980 –> 00:31:46.019
Yes. And basically you’re going to be trampled

00:31:46.019 –> 00:31:51.819
like Billy Crystal in City Slickers if you don’t

00:31:51.819 –> 00:31:54.240
know what the hell you’re doing. Which, you know,

00:31:54.319 –> 00:31:56.599
hey, more promotion for Rose City Comic Con,

00:31:56.640 –> 00:31:58.539
folks. It’s much easier and much more friendly.

00:31:58.779 –> 00:32:02.740
Yep. And it gives you a lot more options, too.

00:32:02.900 –> 00:32:06.940
It’s funny. Everything in Seattle is very black

00:32:06.940 –> 00:32:09.160
and white. Like, these are the restaurants that

00:32:09.160 –> 00:32:11.740
are there. There are no other options. You will

00:32:11.740 –> 00:32:14.759
pay those prices or you won’t eat. That’s right.

00:32:15.140 –> 00:32:17.920
And like Portland, Rose City, they have food

00:32:17.920 –> 00:32:20.839
trucks. Yep. And it’s going to be different every

00:32:20.839 –> 00:32:23.940
year that you go there. Like, oh. I want to eat

00:32:23.940 –> 00:32:26.140
at that taco place. Well, that taco truck was

00:32:26.140 –> 00:32:27.380
there last year. It doesn’t mean they’re going

00:32:27.380 –> 00:32:29.539
to be there this year. So it’s kind of cool that

00:32:29.539 –> 00:32:32.859
they rotate in food options and have close food

00:32:32.859 –> 00:32:35.779
options that are affordable too. Yeah, absolutely.

00:32:36.140 –> 00:32:39.420
Seattle, you’re downtown Seattle. You better

00:32:39.420 –> 00:32:41.920
go when it’s happy hour, which means you’re leaving

00:32:41.920 –> 00:32:45.640
the show to go do happy hour. Cause yeah. Yeah,

00:32:45.700 –> 00:32:47.559
three to six, you’re leaving the heart of the

00:32:47.559 –> 00:32:50.200
show to go get cheap food or not even cheap food.

00:32:50.480 –> 00:32:53.500
So also another rule of con going for those that

00:32:53.500 –> 00:32:57.539
have not done it. Pack snacks. Yes. Oh, yeah.

00:32:57.799 –> 00:33:01.480
Pack snacks. Energy bars. Jerky. Things that’ll

00:33:01.480 –> 00:33:03.579
stay with you and give you energy, not just straight

00:33:03.579 –> 00:33:09.750
sugar. Yeah. Exactly. Now, we did get a staple

00:33:09.750 –> 00:33:12.289
of the Emerald City Comic Con for most people

00:33:12.289 –> 00:33:15.630
to have meals is just outside the restaurant

00:33:15.630 –> 00:33:18.769
of, why am I drawing a blank on it? Matt, help

00:33:18.769 –> 00:33:22.390
me. Which restaurant? Which restaurant? The one

00:33:22.390 –> 00:33:24.849
that’s closing right outside. Oh, Cheesecake

00:33:24.849 –> 00:33:26.829
Factory. Cheesecake Factory, that’s right. Cheesecake

00:33:26.829 –> 00:33:29.670
Factory is closing, in fact, here within the

00:33:29.670 –> 00:33:32.690
month. That’s a staple of Emerald City. How do

00:33:32.690 –> 00:33:35.480
you draw a blank on the Cheesecake Factory? I

00:33:35.480 –> 00:33:37.240
was looking at something else on my screen and

00:33:37.240 –> 00:33:39.940
my mind went elsewhere. I’m looking at attendance

00:33:39.940 –> 00:33:42.299
values. Because we didn’t eat there this time.

00:33:42.500 –> 00:33:44.119
We did not because we weren’t there multiple

00:33:44.119 –> 00:33:47.160
days, too. Yeah. One thing we didn’t mention

00:33:47.160 –> 00:33:48.579
when we started the show was the attendance.

00:33:49.220 –> 00:33:51.519
Now, pre -pandemic attendance for Emerald City

00:33:51.519 –> 00:33:54.799
Comic Con reached a peak about 98 ,000. And then

00:33:54.799 –> 00:33:57.019
they believe this year the numbers haven’t been

00:33:57.019 –> 00:34:00.019
announced, but they either achieved it or just

00:34:00.019 –> 00:34:02.819
finally broke in the 100 ,000 level this year

00:34:02.819 –> 00:34:06.140
alone. So it was a very packed con and they have

00:34:06.140 –> 00:34:07.559
the space for it, especially if they’re doing

00:34:07.559 –> 00:34:12.960
two big buildings to offset a lot of the. They

00:34:12.960 –> 00:34:15.860
have the space to do up to there. Cause I remember

00:34:15.860 –> 00:34:19.719
in 2019 that that was a shoulder to shoulder.

00:34:19.800 –> 00:34:21.760
We were working on the sixth floor on that one.

00:34:21.800 –> 00:34:26.179
And that was incredibly busy con. That was right

00:34:26.179 –> 00:34:30.679
before all. Everything went haywire. Yeah, it’s

00:34:30.679 –> 00:34:35.920
crazy. That’s the overview of ECC, CCCCC. I guess

00:34:35.920 –> 00:34:38.059
we should go to the next section if we want to

00:34:38.059 –> 00:34:40.380
touch in a minute here. We will go over the upcoming

00:34:40.380 –> 00:34:44.099
cons for 2025, which for the Northwest will be

00:34:44.099 –> 00:34:47.340
SummerCon and, of course, our very home city,

00:34:47.460 –> 00:34:50.559
Rose City Comic Con. So those are the next two

00:34:50.559 –> 00:34:56.949
you guys are going to? Yes. So I just did a comic

00:34:56.949 –> 00:35:00.050
book swap meet this weekend at Lloyd Center and

00:35:00.050 –> 00:35:02.730
there was a guy walking around handing out flyers

00:35:02.730 –> 00:35:06.489
for something called Geek Week, which is like

00:35:06.489 –> 00:35:12.309
10 days in September at the same time that Rose

00:35:12.309 –> 00:35:14.789
City is going on, except Rose City is only a

00:35:14.789 –> 00:35:16.969
three day con where this is like a full week.

00:35:17.050 –> 00:35:20.650
So we might go check a day of that out and see

00:35:20.650 –> 00:35:22.949
what that’s about. I’m kind of hoping it’s kind

00:35:22.949 –> 00:35:26.340
of given that. old rose city when it was done

00:35:26.340 –> 00:35:29.519
at the double tree ballroom that it was that

00:35:29.519 –> 00:35:33.099
small and you had like massage therapists setting

00:35:33.099 –> 00:35:35.639
up tables and you had like etsy people selling

00:35:35.639 –> 00:35:38.079
buttons that they make out of their garage and

00:35:38.079 –> 00:35:43.079
that kind of small town actual artists and not

00:35:43.079 –> 00:35:45.480
some corporation ripping off an artist and throwing

00:35:45.480 –> 00:35:48.389
it on a t -shirt kind of thing that a lot of

00:35:48.389 –> 00:35:51.329
those cons have turned into. Why do I feel like

00:35:51.329 –> 00:35:53.610
watching a social network after this podcast

00:35:53.610 –> 00:36:02.750
right now? Yeah. The merch at Emerald City was

00:36:02.750 –> 00:36:06.250
a little disappointing. It was more like a showroom

00:36:06.250 –> 00:36:09.050
floor of things that you can’t afford, but oh,

00:36:09.090 –> 00:36:11.980
it’d be really cool if you could have that. wormwood

00:36:11.980 –> 00:36:15.579
gaming table meant for dnd that’s like ten thousand

00:36:15.579 –> 00:36:18.820
dollars or whatever but you know actual things

00:36:18.820 –> 00:36:22.699
that you can afford it was a little a little

00:36:22.699 –> 00:36:25.400
lacking or you know if you’ve gone to one con

00:36:25.400 –> 00:36:28.099
you’ve seen them at every single con so you already

00:36:28.099 –> 00:36:30.000
have the one thing that you wanted from them

00:36:30.000 –> 00:36:32.619
and they don’t come out with new product oh you’re

00:36:32.619 –> 00:36:34.789
talking about t -turtle One of many T -shirt

00:36:34.789 –> 00:36:37.650
companies that was there that had the exact same

00:36:37.650 –> 00:36:39.829
run of T -shirts that they’ve had for like the

00:36:39.829 –> 00:36:43.329
last five years. Yep. Nothing special about T

00:36:43.329 –> 00:36:45.610
-Turtle. You disappoint me. I usually try to

00:36:45.610 –> 00:36:48.449
buy a T -Turtle shirt on every con, but this

00:36:48.449 –> 00:36:52.269
year, nothing new. It was all the same. I was

00:36:52.269 –> 00:36:55.369
really disappointed. There has only been, even

00:36:55.369 –> 00:36:58.260
though I can’t. buy them anymore because they

00:36:58.260 –> 00:37:01.000
don’t fit me anymore. There has only been one

00:37:01.000 –> 00:37:06.360
t -shirt company ever that I have ever bought

00:37:06.360 –> 00:37:09.659
stuff from that has new stuff every day and that

00:37:09.659 –> 00:37:11.840
is Ripped Apparel because they have new designs

00:37:11.840 –> 00:37:20.400
every day. There we go. New stuff. One thing

00:37:20.400 –> 00:37:22.420
Matt didn’t mention, he did pick up a nice little

00:37:22.420 –> 00:37:25.880
golden gem at Emerald City Comic Con. For you

00:37:25.880 –> 00:37:32.179
comic book nerds out there. Are you talking about

00:37:32.179 –> 00:37:35.019
the slab that I bought? Yes, the beautiful little

00:37:35.019 –> 00:37:37.400
slab that you got a great deal on. Yeah, I did

00:37:37.400 –> 00:37:40.420
get a really good deal on a Jim Lee signed. It

00:37:40.420 –> 00:37:44.519
was unfortunately a 9 .4, but it was super cheap.

00:37:44.599 –> 00:37:47.760
It was like 85 bucks for a Jim Lee signed first

00:37:47.760 –> 00:37:51.659
appearance of Omega Red. Oh, nice. Very cool.

00:37:52.440 –> 00:37:55.340
That was kind of a nice little gem that I found.

00:37:56.039 –> 00:37:59.539
Because Jim Lee is like at least 50 bucks for

00:37:59.539 –> 00:38:03.139
an autograph. Sometimes more, depending on what

00:38:03.139 –> 00:38:06.780
show he’s at. And also a first appearance. So

00:38:06.780 –> 00:38:10.639
it was nice. Cool. Very cool. Well, if we want

00:38:10.639 –> 00:38:12.320
to highlight the two cons we’re going to be at

00:38:12.320 –> 00:38:14.719
this year. First of all, I want to mention about

00:38:14.719 –> 00:38:20.480
SummerCon. June 20th through the 22nd. The one

00:38:20.480 –> 00:38:22.480
that’s in Central Washington and Puyallup, Washington.

00:38:22.719 –> 00:38:26.099
It’s at the fairgrounds. This one is going to

00:38:26.099 –> 00:38:29.039
be, we’re going to be there multiple days. Only

00:38:29.039 –> 00:38:32.000
because of who’s going to be there. For Matt,

00:38:32.360 –> 00:38:36.659
Kevin Eastman is making his return back to the

00:38:36.659 –> 00:38:39.960
con here. And in previous summer cons, we have

00:38:39.960 –> 00:38:44.440
noticed that they do not maintain line integrity

00:38:44.440 –> 00:38:48.510
very well or line flow very well. That is really

00:38:48.510 –> 00:38:50.690
one of the only issues that I’ve ever had with

00:38:50.690 –> 00:38:53.469
SummerCon is that their people, their volunteers,

00:38:53.670 –> 00:38:57.989
or whoever organizes their security team or volunteer

00:38:57.989 –> 00:39:02.250
team, they do not understand line management

00:39:02.250 –> 00:39:09.849
at all. And I spent an entire day waiting to

00:39:09.849 –> 00:39:13.769
get Kevin Eastman’s signature because of how

00:39:13.769 –> 00:39:17.780
poorly run. their line management is. And I was

00:39:17.780 –> 00:39:23.320
in line a couple hours before the signing was

00:39:23.320 –> 00:39:25.559
even supposed to be, and it still took me eight

00:39:25.559 –> 00:39:28.500
hours of standing in line to get it. Oh, no.

00:39:30.280 –> 00:39:33.159
Yeah. Kevin Eastman also is an awesome person,

00:39:33.239 –> 00:39:35.260
and he knew that the line management was very

00:39:35.260 –> 00:39:37.980
terrible, so he was doing some free stuff for

00:39:37.980 –> 00:39:40.800
some people, because he is a very nice, generous

00:39:40.800 –> 00:39:44.989
person. Yes, he is awesome. Yeah, hopefully they

00:39:44.989 –> 00:39:48.050
can remedy that from a few years ago and actually

00:39:48.050 –> 00:39:50.389
have a smooth line. I’m not going to hold my

00:39:50.389 –> 00:39:53.269
breath, but I certainly have some more stuff

00:39:53.269 –> 00:39:55.070
for him that I would love to get him to sign.

00:39:55.369 –> 00:39:58.670
Yeah. Now, in typical fashion for the Northwest,

00:39:59.030 –> 00:40:02.329
our big three cons are always ECC, SummerCon,

00:40:02.570 –> 00:40:05.150
and Rose City. So as soon as one completes…

00:40:05.469 –> 00:40:08.409
The guest list of the next one starts filling

00:40:08.409 –> 00:40:12.349
out. And the day after ECC ended, SummerCon started

00:40:12.349 –> 00:40:14.829
really posting on who they’re getting. Now, Eastman

00:40:14.829 –> 00:40:16.889
was always a guarantee. That was one of the first

00:40:16.889 –> 00:40:19.429
people they announced as soon as the show came

00:40:19.429 –> 00:40:23.690
up live. Now, Charlie Cock is going to show up

00:40:23.690 –> 00:40:26.809
at this one. In fact, it’s all Daredevil for

00:40:26.809 –> 00:40:29.690
the series. Most of the cast is going to be there.

00:40:30.010 –> 00:40:34.510
Nice. Don Bluth is, of course, since he’s in

00:40:34.510 –> 00:40:37.309
the Northwest, he’s showing up to the… Keith

00:40:37.309 –> 00:40:40.909
David, who I would like personally to see, is

00:40:40.909 –> 00:40:44.409
showing back up at this Comic -Con. And, of course,

00:40:44.429 –> 00:40:48.010
the big headliner is William Shatner is showing

00:40:48.010 –> 00:40:49.969
up to this con. I think this is the first time

00:40:49.969 –> 00:40:53.610
he’s come to this one. The what? SummerCon? The

00:40:53.610 –> 00:40:57.110
SummerCon. No. No, he got in a fight with Ray

00:40:57.110 –> 00:41:00.429
Park last year. That’s right. Forget about that.

00:41:00.780 –> 00:41:03.760
Talk about Star Wars versus Star Trek. Yeah,

00:41:03.800 –> 00:41:07.440
he got his panties in a twist because Ray Park

00:41:07.440 –> 00:41:12.440
had a longer line than him and threw a huge fucking

00:41:12.440 –> 00:41:15.199
fit about it where they had to go get a different

00:41:15.199 –> 00:41:19.260
pavilion so that he could have his own signing

00:41:19.260 –> 00:41:23.820
building because he could not stand Ray Park

00:41:23.820 –> 00:41:29.340
having a longer line than him. You say, Keith,

00:41:29.440 –> 00:41:32.820
David, all I can think of is the fate of the

00:41:32.820 –> 00:41:36.320
world is entrusted to a bunch of retards I wouldn’t

00:41:36.320 –> 00:41:41.659
trust with a potato gun. I’m excited because

00:41:41.659 –> 00:41:44.980
I always loved the work he did, like in Princess

00:41:44.980 –> 00:41:46.920
and the Frog. I absolutely love his character

00:41:46.920 –> 00:41:50.019
in that one, Goliath. Of course, he’s in Hasbun

00:41:50.019 –> 00:41:55.980
Hotel. I like his style of voice acting and I’m

00:41:55.980 –> 00:41:58.099
really excited about going up there. And he’s

00:41:58.099 –> 00:42:00.659
one that, cause I do have a blink variant copy

00:42:00.659 –> 00:42:02.940
of gargoyles. I really need to get a picture

00:42:02.940 –> 00:42:05.800
done on it, but I could easily get Keith David

00:42:05.800 –> 00:42:07.920
to sign on that one. Cause that’d be kind of

00:42:07.920 –> 00:42:10.360
cool since he’s the voice of Goliath. Yeah, that

00:42:10.360 –> 00:42:14.159
would be so cool. Yeah. I just remember him as,

00:42:14.239 –> 00:42:16.219
I mean, I remember him as all the stuff you’re

00:42:16.219 –> 00:42:19.460
talking about, but man, general Kinsey from Armageddon.

00:42:21.719 –> 00:42:23.320
Of course, they have a couple of Disney princesses

00:42:23.320 –> 00:42:25.940
coming to this one, voice actors from there.

00:42:26.659 –> 00:42:29.179
But that’s just the start. I mean, it’s very

00:42:29.179 –> 00:42:31.300
early on. Yeah, it’s very early on. They’re going

00:42:31.300 –> 00:42:34.079
to get it pretty quickly. So we’re going to be

00:42:34.079 –> 00:42:35.519
at Summercom. We’re definitely going to be hitting

00:42:35.519 –> 00:42:38.500
two days up there. So Matt can get his stuff,

00:42:38.559 –> 00:42:40.880
and I can do the work. Not sure if Vegas James

00:42:40.880 –> 00:42:43.360
is going to get a booth up there. He’s trying.

00:42:43.800 –> 00:42:45.840
He’s trying. Will Paul will be hanging around

00:42:45.840 –> 00:42:48.340
his booth. That’s usually what we do. Definitely

00:42:48.340 –> 00:42:51.489
an artist we want you to go. purchase from for

00:42:51.489 –> 00:42:54.489
those in the Pacific Northwest. The next Comic

00:42:54.489 –> 00:42:56.889
-Con, of course, that we need to chat about is

00:42:56.889 –> 00:43:00.829
our home city Comic -Con, Rose City. The one

00:43:00.829 –> 00:43:03.610
that we have gone to since its starting days

00:43:03.610 –> 00:43:07.030
and the one that I missed last year because I

00:43:07.030 –> 00:43:10.550
was in the hospital and I wasn’t going anywhere.

00:43:10.570 –> 00:43:14.989
Luckily, you kicked that virus’s ass. Oh, I did.

00:43:15.130 –> 00:43:18.190
I beat that. My kidneys are better. I’m in better

00:43:18.190 –> 00:43:21.690
health. There you go. And I had to do it before

00:43:21.690 –> 00:43:24.929
Matt was going to murder me. Yeah, true. Road

00:43:24.929 –> 00:43:27.190
City Comic Con is here at the Convention Center

00:43:27.190 –> 00:43:30.050
in Portland, Oregon, September 5th through September

00:43:30.050 –> 00:43:35.010
7th. The overall experience for here is beautiful

00:43:35.010 –> 00:43:37.369
about Portland is you can get a hotel a little

00:43:37.369 –> 00:43:39.510
bit of ways away from the Road City Comic Con,

00:43:39.650 –> 00:43:43.010
and you can jump on a train system to the Convention

00:43:43.010 –> 00:43:46.710
Center. So you don’t have to pay bigger prices

00:43:46.710 –> 00:43:50.380
being right outside the Convention Center. You

00:43:50.380 –> 00:43:53.099
go anywhere along the multiple Rutt -Max lines,

00:43:53.280 –> 00:43:55.440
get a hotel off that that’s walking distance

00:43:55.440 –> 00:43:57.480
and just catch a train in and out for each day.

00:43:57.900 –> 00:44:00.599
That’s the beauty of Rose City Comic Con, I will

00:44:00.599 –> 00:44:03.659
admit. Again, this is very early for attendance,

00:44:04.059 –> 00:44:08.579
but their theme this year is all leading up to

00:44:08.579 –> 00:44:11.340
the Goonies. It’s the 40th anniversary of the

00:44:11.340 –> 00:44:15.329
Goonies. So that is going to be the… focus

00:44:15.329 –> 00:44:17.590
of everything and of course that’s they have

00:44:17.590 –> 00:44:20.730
all the goonies up there who are coming um well

00:44:20.730 –> 00:44:23.590
not all of them several of the goonies have set

00:44:23.590 –> 00:44:26.869
up cory feldman is already sean austin is already

00:44:26.869 –> 00:44:30.050
going to be there uh several of the adults the

00:44:30.050 –> 00:44:33.170
only one outside of for celebrities is of course

00:44:33.170 –> 00:44:37.690
our our favorite con person is will wheaton he’s

00:44:37.690 –> 00:44:39.829
agreed to be there for friday saturday so we

00:44:39.829 –> 00:44:42.789
are excited if you go to a comic -con with will

00:44:42.789 –> 00:44:46.019
wheaton Do not miss his panels. He is one of

00:44:46.019 –> 00:44:49.679
the best panel goers, presenters out there that

00:44:49.679 –> 00:44:52.679
I’ve ever seen. His stories will memorize you.

00:44:52.840 –> 00:44:56.099
And he is absolutely, he loves it for the fans.

00:44:56.280 –> 00:44:59.559
And it’s absolutely wonderful to go see him.

00:45:00.380 –> 00:45:04.219
Voice actors are several anime and X -Men voice

00:45:04.219 –> 00:45:06.320
actors have already agreed to be going there.

00:45:06.460 –> 00:45:10.039
And there’s a slew of some comic artists. I don’t,

00:45:10.039 –> 00:45:12.860
I know a couple of them, but nothing super huge.

00:45:13.480 –> 00:45:16.199
But we’ll see more of that as SummerCon comes

00:45:16.199 –> 00:45:19.179
and goes. Those ranks will definitely fill out.

00:45:19.840 –> 00:45:24.579
Very cool. Very cool. All right, folks. Go ahead.

00:45:24.659 –> 00:45:27.219
I do want to point out one sad note. One thing

00:45:27.219 –> 00:45:29.019
about Emerald City Comic Con as it went out,

00:45:29.239 –> 00:45:31.880
one author that I’ve actually met a couple of

00:45:31.880 –> 00:45:34.280
times, Terry Brooks, the author of the Shannara

00:45:34.280 –> 00:45:37.260
series, is taking the back step role. He is now

00:45:37.260 –> 00:45:41.469
done writing books. After this Comic -Con, he’s

00:45:41.469 –> 00:45:45.769
old. He’s near 90, and he mentioned dementia,

00:45:45.929 –> 00:45:48.550
and it started hitting him. He’s forgetting things.

00:45:48.630 –> 00:45:50.210
It’s hard for him to converse in the public.

00:45:50.889 –> 00:45:53.389
There is a writer who’s worked underneath him

00:45:53.389 –> 00:45:56.269
for years in the scenario world. She’ll be taking

00:45:56.269 –> 00:45:59.769
over all the duties as main author. He’s let

00:45:59.769 –> 00:46:01.489
out some guidelines for her to follow, but he

00:46:01.489 –> 00:46:04.329
is officially done after the book they just released.

00:46:04.489 –> 00:46:09.699
For an author that I grew up on, It’s sad. His

00:46:09.699 –> 00:46:12.679
books are amazing. Do not watch the TV show.

00:46:12.820 –> 00:46:15.480
That’s garbage. But the books are fantastic.

00:46:15.860 –> 00:46:18.800
And for any new person who’s getting into reading,

00:46:19.000 –> 00:46:21.980
the Shannara series is a really good series to

00:46:21.980 –> 00:46:24.920
immerse yourself with. Are you saying that MTV

00:46:24.920 –> 00:46:28.300
did not do a good job of producing the Shannara

00:46:28.300 –> 00:46:33.630
Chronicles? Terrible job. The poster. The poster.

00:46:33.789 –> 00:46:35.550
Okay, you know what? You’re getting me on a tangent.

00:46:35.889 –> 00:46:40.570
Music, television, programming did not do a good

00:46:40.570 –> 00:46:46.070
job with a fantasy story. Damn you, Matthew.

00:46:46.889 –> 00:46:50.110
All right. Another tangent for another time.

00:46:50.349 –> 00:46:55.570
Sorry about that, sir. Oh, boy. But yes, Terry

00:46:55.570 –> 00:46:58.449
Brooks, amazing, amazing person, amazing writer.

00:47:01.409 –> 00:47:04.889
Yeah. I mean, you gotta, Hey, as long as you

00:47:04.889 –> 00:47:06.849
can go out at the top of your game, right. I

00:47:06.849 –> 00:47:09.570
guess. I mean, you know, if you decide that you

00:47:09.570 –> 00:47:12.869
need to take a step back with, especially if,

00:47:12.869 –> 00:47:16.090
if health is, is a concern, obviously, you know,

00:47:16.090 –> 00:47:19.710
it’s very sad, but Hey, the man had a wonderful

00:47:19.710 –> 00:47:22.309
career. Yep, he’s not doing the Robert Jordan

00:47:22.309 –> 00:47:24.769
thing. It’s like I’m a book or two away from

00:47:24.769 –> 00:47:29.269
finishing the series. I just certainly hope that

00:47:29.269 –> 00:47:32.409
they don’t Tim Curry him with his family, that

00:47:32.409 –> 00:47:35.789
they just let him retire and be retired and not

00:47:35.789 –> 00:47:39.570
quite literally wheeled out for the public masses.

00:47:40.250 –> 00:47:43.849
Yep, that’s another tangent for another podcast.

00:47:44.250 –> 00:47:46.530
Yeah, let’s hope that doesn’t happen, or let’s

00:47:46.530 –> 00:47:50.960
hope the other thing. doesn’t happen that we

00:47:50.960 –> 00:47:54.219
will talk about off air that apparently is happening

00:47:54.219 –> 00:47:58.639
and i’m sorry but kickstarter get your shit together

00:47:58.639 –> 00:48:06.519
and stop that campaign ah yes stupid anyway anything

00:48:06.519 –> 00:48:08.900
else on the conventions before i send it to a

00:48:08.900 –> 00:48:13.380
quick podcast ad break gentlemen One of the nice

00:48:13.380 –> 00:48:16.940
things that’s been happening recently with Emerald

00:48:16.940 –> 00:48:21.900
City is that they quite literally have CGC from

00:48:21.900 –> 00:48:25.579
Florida come out and do their show. They’re not

00:48:25.579 –> 00:48:29.269
doing third party where you get. grading where

00:48:29.269 –> 00:48:32.650
you give it to one guy you pay him extra and

00:48:32.650 –> 00:48:35.429
then they hand deliver your books to florida

00:48:35.429 –> 00:48:37.750
but it’s just like a whole bunch of extra steps

00:48:37.750 –> 00:48:40.050
and a whole bunch of extra money cgc has finally

00:48:40.050 –> 00:48:44.989
started coming to seattle to do the show so you

00:48:44.989 –> 00:48:48.849
can give them your books directly and pay cgc

00:48:48.849 –> 00:48:52.539
prices and not get taken to the cleaner So that’s

00:48:52.539 –> 00:48:55.739
really nice. And it’s very convenient to do.

00:48:55.840 –> 00:48:59.239
It’s really easy. They have a huge booth, lots

00:48:59.239 –> 00:49:02.860
of employees there to help you go through their

00:49:02.860 –> 00:49:06.619
application of filling out for what books you’re

00:49:06.619 –> 00:49:09.280
sending off. And there’s so many people there

00:49:09.280 –> 00:49:11.000
that you don’t have to worry about your books

00:49:11.000 –> 00:49:13.219
being protected like you do with other third

00:49:13.219 –> 00:49:16.750
party. groups that are sending like two people

00:49:16.750 –> 00:49:19.650
and they have to go off and go watch signings

00:49:19.650 –> 00:49:22.250
and they leave your books unprotected at their

00:49:22.250 –> 00:49:29.630
booth with nobody there for cg for cgc grading

00:49:29.630 –> 00:49:31.690
like people that like to get their books sent

00:49:31.690 –> 00:49:34.469
off That’s what I did on Saturday. That was my

00:49:34.469 –> 00:49:36.550
highlight, was being able to actually interact

00:49:36.550 –> 00:49:39.769
with CGC, send off books that I’ve been holding

00:49:39.769 –> 00:49:42.210
on to because they are high value and I do not

00:49:42.210 –> 00:49:45.389
trust the post office to not throw them into

00:49:45.389 –> 00:49:50.489
a sewer grate or jab it with a box knife. So

00:49:50.489 –> 00:49:53.769
I was able to hand deliver that to them and I

00:49:53.769 –> 00:49:56.469
will hopefully get them back in a month or two.

00:49:57.079 –> 00:49:59.780
Because it’s going directly to them and not through

00:49:59.780 –> 00:50:02.420
this person, then this person, then back to this

00:50:02.420 –> 00:50:05.699
person, and then back to me. That is nice if

00:50:05.699 –> 00:50:07.659
you’re into the whole grading book thing. Yeah,

00:50:07.679 –> 00:50:10.480
I’ve noticed that with CGC is that they’re going

00:50:10.480 –> 00:50:14.199
to a lot more shows in general, not just for

00:50:14.199 –> 00:50:16.280
the comic grading, but for other just grading

00:50:16.280 –> 00:50:18.860
stuff in general. Oh, yeah, they’re grading video

00:50:18.860 –> 00:50:22.159
games, cards. They just partnered up with PSA.

00:50:22.320 –> 00:50:27.559
So they’re doing authentications. So you no longer,

00:50:27.659 –> 00:50:31.820
it will state on the book, there is witnessed

00:50:31.820 –> 00:50:35.039
yellow labels and then there are authenticated

00:50:35.039 –> 00:50:39.380
yellow labels where they’ll just say, yep, that’s

00:50:39.380 –> 00:50:41.719
so -and -so’s signature. And then there’s other

00:50:41.719 –> 00:50:43.860
times that they are witnessing it and saying,

00:50:43.920 –> 00:50:45.699
yes, this is that person’s signature because

00:50:45.699 –> 00:50:48.159
I saw them write it. I haven’t seen any dip in

00:50:48.159 –> 00:50:52.820
price on authentication to witnessed. So apparently.

00:50:53.579 –> 00:50:56.099
the authentication process everybody is saying

00:50:56.099 –> 00:50:58.480
no that’s just as good yeah very cool very cool

00:50:58.480 –> 00:51:00.599
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Alright, folks, we are back here on GeekCast

00:54:28.300 –> 00:54:32.699
Radio. This is episode 348. We are two away from

00:54:32.699 –> 00:54:37.880
350. And any final thoughts from you, Mr. Christopher,

00:54:37.920 –> 00:54:44.070
sir? The progression of where Comic -Con, again,

00:54:44.309 –> 00:54:47.750
the stigma of the word comic book convention

00:54:47.750 –> 00:54:52.849
is really not the overall view of what these

00:54:52.849 –> 00:54:56.949
events are anymore. It is pulp culture. That’s

00:54:56.949 –> 00:55:00.150
what’s the overview design. Now, Emerald City

00:55:00.150 –> 00:55:04.349
was the first. I hadn’t seen a lot of WWE wrestling

00:55:04.349 –> 00:55:06.730
involved. There was like one wrestler there.

00:55:06.869 –> 00:55:09.389
That was it. It’s funny because that usually

00:55:09.389 –> 00:55:12.170
tags along with these conventions. You’ll see

00:55:12.170 –> 00:55:15.349
a big group of WWE wrestlers tag along with it.

00:55:15.969 –> 00:55:20.070
But it is still a great place to express yourself,

00:55:20.289 –> 00:55:23.389
to express the culture that you love or the fandom

00:55:23.389 –> 00:55:26.030
you love, because there are other people who

00:55:26.030 –> 00:55:29.250
love what you love, and this is a good place

00:55:29.250 –> 00:55:31.769
to meet them. Some of them are a little, you

00:55:31.769 –> 00:55:34.929
know, sketchy, and this is not furry conventions.

00:55:35.170 –> 00:55:36.829
Stop it, Matt, because I knew you were going

00:55:36.829 –> 00:55:41.909
to mention that. But it’s a great place for people

00:55:41.909 –> 00:55:45.630
to go to, to enjoy the medium out there of different

00:55:45.630 –> 00:55:50.829
venues, either be books, either be videos. audio,

00:55:50.829 –> 00:55:54.869
or just big film. You gambit everything there.

00:55:55.070 –> 00:55:57.469
So definitely I encourage you to go. And don’t

00:55:57.469 –> 00:55:59.289
even have to go alone. Try to bring your friend.

00:55:59.789 –> 00:56:02.449
And you don’t have to hit every day. I don’t

00:56:02.449 –> 00:56:05.849
encourage going every day because it’s way too

00:56:05.849 –> 00:56:09.690
much. You will get sick. You will get sick. Confunk

00:56:09.690 –> 00:56:14.500
is a thing, folks. And we’ve survived it. So

00:56:14.500 –> 00:56:16.480
here’s the thing, folks. Really quickly, before

00:56:16.480 –> 00:56:18.460
I let Matt have the floor and have his final

00:56:18.460 –> 00:56:20.960
say, here’s the thing, folks. Confunk is a thing.

00:56:21.119 –> 00:56:22.960
Not only is it a thing for people that actually

00:56:22.960 –> 00:56:25.400
go to conventions, but it’s also a thing for

00:56:25.400 –> 00:56:27.360
people who sit at home in front of their computer

00:56:27.360 –> 00:56:29.780
screens looking at convention websites trying

00:56:29.780 –> 00:56:32.639
to keep up with the news. And I’m already sick.

00:56:34.960 –> 00:56:40.920
One of us. One of us. Thank you, Joe. Matt, go

00:56:40.920 –> 00:56:42.980
ahead. What are your final thoughts? Hygiene.

00:56:43.079 –> 00:56:46.559
Hygiene, hygiene, hygiene. Please, when going

00:56:46.559 –> 00:56:51.380
to cons, shower, change your clothes. If you

00:56:51.380 –> 00:56:56.119
have, I don’t know, a furry costume, please clean

00:56:56.119 –> 00:57:00.360
it. Please put some air freshener in it. Something

00:57:00.360 –> 00:57:04.219
like that, because we don’t need this turning

00:57:04.219 –> 00:57:07.480
into what anime cons used to be of just the giant…

00:57:08.940 –> 00:57:13.980
smell pool of grossness there’s a lot of people

00:57:13.980 –> 00:57:16.380
you get really crammed in some of those alleys

00:57:16.380 –> 00:57:18.920
and we all want to be able to breathe oxygen

00:57:18.920 –> 00:57:25.360
that’d be great okay okay okay yeah people get

00:57:25.360 –> 00:57:27.840
crammed in a lot of those back alleys kind of

00:57:27.840 –> 00:57:32.039
like the back of a volkswagen oh boy kind of

00:57:32.039 –> 00:57:36.619
yes folks do your best and like like Matt and

00:57:36.619 –> 00:57:40.239
Chris have said, I agree. Okay, so if you go

00:57:40.239 –> 00:57:44.760
to any, it’s not just specific to ECCCCCCCC,

00:57:45.019 –> 00:57:47.920
but if you go to any convention’s website, whether

00:57:47.920 –> 00:57:49.880
it’s your local convention, whether it’s a national

00:57:49.880 –> 00:57:52.519
convention, whatever, and you see it has three

00:57:52.519 –> 00:57:55.159
different things that you want to go to, what

00:57:55.159 –> 00:57:59.280
I would suggest is, especially if these things

00:57:59.280 –> 00:58:02.860
are on different days, get those multiple day

00:58:02.860 –> 00:58:06.840
passes get that friday saturday sunday pass for

00:58:06.840 –> 00:58:12.079
that specific thing on that specific day kind

00:58:12.079 –> 00:58:14.719
of thing or like they’ve said in this whole episode

00:58:14.719 –> 00:58:16.860
if there’s only one day that they wanted to go

00:58:16.860 –> 00:58:19.500
because there’s only one specific thing go for

00:58:19.500 –> 00:58:22.780
that one day and have that fun you don’t have

00:58:22.780 –> 00:58:28.619
to you know go bankrupt over a convention that

00:58:28.619 –> 00:58:33.159
might end up mentally discharging yourself out

00:58:33.159 –> 00:58:37.320
of somewhere and just, no, just have fun folks

00:58:37.320 –> 00:58:42.599
be responsible. And I’ve got one other thing

00:58:42.599 –> 00:58:46.559
though, to mention to new con goers. If there

00:58:46.559 –> 00:58:49.760
is a celebrity that you are really wanting to

00:58:49.760 –> 00:58:53.739
see, make sure you check on all of their social

00:58:53.739 –> 00:58:57.760
media to make sure that one, they were invited

00:58:57.760 –> 00:59:01.579
through the guest. Then also check the website

00:59:01.579 –> 00:59:07.760
of the con. This show, I noticed on Facebook

00:59:07.760 –> 00:59:10.400
and Instagram, they were pushing celebrities

00:59:10.400 –> 00:59:12.440
that had already canceled, but they had only

00:59:12.440 –> 00:59:15.519
mentioned on the website of Emerald City Comic

00:59:15.519 –> 00:59:17.840
Con that that celebrity had actually canceled.

00:59:18.039 –> 00:59:20.780
But on Facebook and Instagram, they were still

00:59:20.780 –> 00:59:23.480
pushing the picture of that celebrity saying,

00:59:23.699 –> 00:59:27.179
come get autographs, come see the panels, come

00:59:27.179 –> 00:59:32.420
see this. But the website, the home website for

00:59:32.420 –> 00:59:35.440
Emerald City said this artist had canceled. But

00:59:35.440 –> 00:59:38.159
for weeks after that, I knew that that artist

00:59:38.159 –> 00:59:41.980
had canceled. They were still pushing them on

00:59:41.980 –> 00:59:46.599
other social medias. So check everything. that

00:59:46.599 –> 00:59:49.800
you can check this with that artist or that celebrity

00:59:49.800 –> 00:59:53.019
to see if they’ve mentioned going to that con,

00:59:53.239 –> 00:59:56.019
uh, to see if dates have changed or anything

00:59:56.019 –> 00:59:58.579
like that. So if, Oh, sorry guys, I can’t make

00:59:58.579 –> 01:00:01.099
Saturday. I’m only making Sunday and then check

01:00:01.099 –> 01:00:05.039
the, the show to make sure that they’re being

01:00:05.039 –> 01:00:08.639
honest on all of their social medias. Yeah, absolutely.

01:00:08.900 –> 01:00:11.340
Any, uh, any other promotions or anything else

01:00:11.340 –> 01:00:12.920
you guys want to do before I run through the

01:00:12.920 –> 01:00:17.400
closing? No, not really. Well, of course, you

01:00:17.400 –> 01:00:20.820
can always find me around there at dpodcast .com.

01:00:21.260 –> 01:00:23.199
Again, we’re not really doing much new shows,

01:00:23.280 –> 01:00:26.559
but we’re more capable of doing things that we

01:00:26.559 –> 01:00:28.440
really want to do because we’re just lazy, and

01:00:28.440 –> 01:00:30.320
who knows? With the most interest, we might actually

01:00:30.320 –> 01:00:32.860
get stuff done. So you can poke us around out

01:00:32.860 –> 01:00:35.679
there. Otherwise, you can always catch me floating

01:00:35.679 –> 01:00:37.780
around here at the Geekcast Radio Network because

01:00:37.780 –> 01:00:42.059
I like to poke around when I can. Stop it. I

01:00:42.059 –> 01:00:47.320
mean, never mind. Poke the bear. Thank you for

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01:01:21.579 –> 01:01:25.179
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01:01:25.179 –> 01:01:27.880
media, yay, nay? Social media, I mainly look

01:01:27.880 –> 01:01:31.920
for dpodcast .com. Of course, you can catch me

01:01:31.920 –> 01:01:35.739
if you do DeviantArt. Look for Tabaxian, and

01:01:35.739 –> 01:01:39.159
you will find all my artist goodies there. There

01:01:39.159 –> 01:01:42.960
you go. What about you, Matt? Not really. I don’t

01:01:42.960 –> 01:01:46.280
post on anything. He’s very anti -social, folks.

01:01:47.079 –> 01:01:51.980
Bah humbugs. At least on the internet. Yes. You

01:01:51.980 –> 01:01:54.219
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01:01:56.940 –> 01:01:58.800
enjoyed this episode of Geekcast Radio. I wish

01:01:58.800 –> 01:02:00.599
you’ll join us next time. We’ll be talking about

01:02:00.599 –> 01:02:02.800
something. I have no idea what it is yet. We

01:02:02.800 –> 01:02:06.559
have no plans. I wasn’t even sure. Until they

01:02:06.559 –> 01:02:09.159
brought this up, I was like, oh, okay, cool.

01:02:09.769 –> 01:02:12.210
I haven’t made a plan for geek cast radio in

01:02:12.210 –> 01:02:14.909
a couple of months, folks. I’m over on studio

01:02:14.909 –> 01:02:18.090
2009 doing the Columbo files and we’re doing

01:02:18.090 –> 01:02:21.050
movies and things and whatever the pull bag is

01:02:21.050 –> 01:02:24.230
doing comic book stuff. And I don’t even know

01:02:24.230 –> 01:02:26.630
what else we’re doing. Uh, I think we’re about

01:02:26.630 –> 01:02:30.889
to finish the boy meets world podcast, podcast

01:02:30.889 –> 01:02:33.989
meets podcaster meets world. So we’re, we’re

01:02:33.989 –> 01:02:37.190
doing that. What kind of books are you hitting

01:02:37.190 –> 01:02:40.039
over there at the pull bag? right now oh let’s

01:02:40.039 –> 01:02:42.679
see we just we’re in the middle of mutant march

01:02:42.679 –> 01:02:47.159
so we are going through we’re continuing our

01:02:47.159 –> 01:02:51.320
run through idw publishing tmnt uh we just released

01:02:51.320 –> 01:02:56.559
episode 575 of the pullback which is idw tmnt

01:02:56.559 –> 01:03:02.360
reborn volume 5 which collects issues 124 to

01:03:02.360 –> 01:03:07.780
130 of the comic book series from idw So there’s

01:03:07.780 –> 01:03:11.099
that. I literally just, as of this recording,

01:03:11.219 –> 01:03:15.260
I just finished editing episode 577, which is…

01:03:15.260 –> 01:03:18.539
I’m surprised I got it under this. It’s 2 hours,

01:03:18.659 –> 01:03:21.199
48 minutes, and 16 seconds. It was about to be

01:03:21.199 –> 01:03:26.340
3 hours, 14 minutes, and 56, 28, 37, 84, whatever

01:03:26.340 –> 01:03:31.820
pi number you can think of. But we did volume

01:03:31.820 –> 01:03:36.630
7. of the reborn series so we’re making our end

01:03:36.630 –> 01:03:39.710
run through the idw tm and t series up to issue

01:03:39.710 –> 01:03:44.670
150 and then this september in inside the pull

01:03:44.670 –> 01:03:47.230
bag we are going to do sewer surfing september

01:03:47.230 –> 01:03:51.349
which we haven’t done since uh 2017 i think which

01:03:51.349 –> 01:03:55.210
is just wow well it’s just a theme thing but

01:03:55.210 –> 01:03:57.889
we’re doing that so we we’re giving ourselves

01:03:57.889 –> 01:04:00.760
enough time So that way we have at least the

01:04:00.760 –> 01:04:03.679
first trade of the new series written by Jason

01:04:03.679 –> 01:04:06.679
Aaron. So at least by September, that new series

01:04:06.679 –> 01:04:10.900
will be in trade paperback by that time. So we’ll

01:04:10.900 –> 01:04:13.260
have at least, I think the first two arcs in

01:04:13.260 –> 01:04:14.940
trade by then. I know that at least the first

01:04:14.940 –> 01:04:17.219
arc, the first six issues will be traded by then.

01:04:17.900 –> 01:04:23.239
And then after that, I don’t know. I had a lot

01:04:23.239 –> 01:04:25.599
of health issues lately myself with the brain

01:04:25.599 –> 01:04:28.840
and everything else. Yeah, yeah. Technically,

01:04:29.079 –> 01:04:31.599
I’ve been sick since last Halloween in 2024,

01:04:31.900 –> 01:04:35.420
so if I’m not recording or editing, I’m asleep.

01:04:36.599 –> 01:04:42.559
I can relate. Yeah. So, yeah, there’s that. Yeah,

01:04:42.559 –> 01:04:46.300
Mike, at least you have all ten toes. You don’t

01:04:46.300 –> 01:04:48.360
have to take your pants off to count to 20s.

01:04:50.250 –> 01:04:52.630
Oh, no, that’s what the calculator’s for on my

01:04:52.630 –> 01:04:59.210
phone. Oh, boy. All right. For now, I am TF2

01:04:59.210 –> 01:05:02.289
and Mike with Chris and Matt. Thank you for listening.

01:05:02.469 –> 01:05:05.230
Until next time. Oh, yeah. And unleash the geek

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