Non-Comic-Con
For yet another year it appears that I have been left out of the grand nerd prom of grand nerd proms, Comic-Con. But, for all who are missing out on all the carnage, mayhem and slave girl Leia costumes, we here at Red’s Planet we want to encourage everyone to celebrate the con even if you can’t make it to beautiful San Diego, California.
Introducing Non-Comic-Con (yes, I just made that up)! The event you don’t even have to leave your basement for. Just put on your Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform (yes, I poke fun at you, Tom Richmond), pop in your favorite scifi-fantasy-superhero-animated dvd and pull out the long box (that’s comics)! Be sure to sleep in your clothes and don’t wear deodorant so you truly look and smell like all your con-goer doppelgangers in San Diego. And whenever it’s time to eat or go to the bathroom, make sure your roommates or family know to jump in front of you and keep you waiting for hours so you get the full immersion of the convention experience.
And Red’s Planet will be celebrating with you in our own small way. We’ll be posting Red’s Planet fan art, concept sketches and an extra page of Chapter One on Friday! Wow, that’s more fun than you can shake a light sabre at and you don’t even need a plane ticket and a hotel room—all you need is an internet connection.
So stay tuned for some extra posts this weekend and feel free to add your own ideas for celebrating Non-Comic-Con in the comments.
I’m at work right now, but I can’t help but join in as I am feeling left out of SDCC. I’m going to start right now by being flatulent as I walk and leaning over people to get things that interest me. On the way home, I’ll stop at a gas station and peruse the same aisle for 20 minutes, then try to haggle a Snickers bar down to half price.
That’s the spirit! Be sure to tell them how much you love that Snickers bar — right after you criticize everything about it from the wrapper down to the choice of nuts.
Forget the real “con”. Con-formist is more like it. Start your own convention. Or con-tinue bloging. Or publish something in the Sunday paper. I used to read For Better or for Worse. People who got fed up with Hollywood founded Sundance, now Sundance is to commercial for their taste. And don’t diss lightsabers because Michio Kaku is this close to inventing one.
Wow, Eddie, it was GREAT not seeing you at Non-ComicCon! So much fun not signing autographs, not staying up too late, not eating a bunch of greasy fast food, and not getting drunk on overpriced cheap keg beer. You rawk!
Hmpf. My STTNG costume still wows the ladies.