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Conventional Wisdom: A Reflection on Congoing (Part 2)

Or, Full Court Press: a meditation on what it means to be fan and press at a convention, and how you can never go back again once you’ve gotten your first press badge.

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A Personal Reflection: AX, Comic-Con, and What We’re Here For

I wrote this on the train home from San Diego, at the conclusion of Comic-Con 2009. For me, this is the end of the con…

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Comic Con: Some Rambling Final Thoughts

I remember after last year’s Anime Expo hearing that, by comparison, the well-run Comic Con was a paradise compared to AX: the lines weren’t nearly…

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Comic Con 2008 Video Diary, Day 3 – The Straczynski Show

For me, this was the last day–I left early on Sunday. We couldn’t get any footage of Tite Kubo, either, so the vast majority of…

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Comic Con Video Diary, Day 2 – Freaky Friday

In this, day 2, I spend lots of time in line–sometimes for nothing, get a signing from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Jessica Hynes, and…

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Comic Con Video Diary – Day 1: Starring Stan Lee and Samuel L. Jackson

Well, tiredness, bad Internet connections in San Diego, and life got a little in the way–but here’s the Day 1 video diary for this year’s…

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