But Friday was cool.
Fine, I guess I'll have to fill in the Friday part.
Landed in Hartford at about 11:30 am on Friday. Socks and Rob were on their way because they thought Hepting was getting in at 11:59 pm. Stroke of luck for me.
Rob drives at his own speed, which we lovingly refer to as "Rob Speed", and I was very scared. We got there in one piece though, and compared to everyone else, Rob was a good driver.
Signed in and got my badge. I WAS SO STOKED. We made our way up to the Artist Colony and had to chase some nerds sitting at the Slackerz table.
I made signs for Socks and I, and a sign saying Slackerz would be in full swing the next day. Didn't get a crazy amount of traffic, but a good amount considering the table was 3 dudes and some folded paper. Rob and I made some free sketches and stuff. I actually managed to get rid of some of my sketches, but Rob was the mainstay in that regard. He had two really not thin girls come up to him and ask for sketches of them. They said Rob was sketching them all fat like, but Rob basically said, very carefully, it was the fat that made them look fat. I got asked to do a Speed Racer chibi thing. I told her to come back tomorrow when I had it finished. She didn't come back. ;_; I also made Poop Dick 2.Rock, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
Socks donned his Luchador mask and became El Shocko and made hilarious, albeit incredibly sexually leud banners, and in retrospect could have gotten us thrown out.
Socks, Rob, and I left at 3 pm to see a Webcomic panel with Scott Ramsoomair, O Abnormal, KC Green, and Agela Melick. Holy god damn it was funny. I'll save the details for a later date.
About 5 pm or so, some "official" Bitchy McBitchtits verbally raped my ear with her very loud exclamation that we weren't "official" enough for sitting at a booth. We tried to explain that Smith okayed it weeks ago, but WE CAN'T HAVE LOGIC IN THIS ARGUMENT. Socks got Smith on the phone, crazy confirmations everywhere, and it ended up we had to get a hold of some guy named Joe. Socks tracked him down, and it turns out he was running an "Anthropomorphic 101" panel and was not only drawing wings, but doing a 20 minute discussion on the practicality of wings and shit. Meanwhile Rob and I are freaking the fuck out, and that's when Smith told me something that I will never forget ever.
"Dude, it's an anime convention. What kind of security is going to be ballsy enough to throw you and Socks out?"
Socks' shining moment occurred about 30 minutes after the verbal beating when he came into the Colony with 3 OFFICIAL BADGES DO NOT STEAL for us. We put that shit on and told the haters to suck our collective dick.
David Willis passed by our booth, and I was very enthusiastic in greeting him. Perhaps too much. I also talked to KC before the panel, and in retrospect, I feel that I was a little awkward. WHY DOESN'T HE WANT TO TALK TO ME. But then again, it could be that I was too small time for him, in which case, I wouldn't blame him.
We chilled at Socks' house at about 10:30 pm, and then headed for the airport.
Hepting landed and it was like meeting a fictional hero, only for real. Smith was running a little late, but it was very fortunate he was going to make it anyway. Many jokes were made in trying to find him. Smith walked up to us at about 12:10 am and then we headed for the hotel.
The hotel was a funny adventure for the sole reason we had to Solid Snake the front desk in order to sneak in. We succeeded, but to much tribulation at being caught. It was pretty hilarious.
