March 16, 2025

Emerald City Comic Con Preview! - Error Code Show

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Next week, we're heading back to the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, we talk about what we're looking forward to at the show.

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We're going to go in a couple of weeks to Emerald

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City Comic Con. Are we, Alex? It's not this weekend,

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is it? Are we? Yeah, we know. I will be there.

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I will be there. I. Whoa. Did you feel that Octokitty

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doesn't believe you, Alex? You don't have tickets

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yet. I will get them. Don't worry. Oh, my gosh.

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You're going to be like buying tickets. There'll

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be a there's going to be a dude right up front.

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I'm just kidding. But ECC Edward City Comic Con

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is coming up. We're going to cover stuff there.

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But, Jay, you were looking things. What do you

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got on your list here? Yes, I'm going to go.

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That's it. Let's just roll the credits now. I'm

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kidding. All right. So, yeah, I have some topics

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here. Some things I'm looking forward to this

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year, the grunge prom. You know, that's gonna

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be really fun. Um, there's a lot of workshops

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that I'm kind of excited for. I in the past have

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not been able to do like the kind of the building

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hands on workshops because they always fill up

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like really quickly, which there's a little bit

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of a little bit of a sour taste in everyone's

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mouth of how they did it this year. I guess a

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lot of people complained about that very topic

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of like workshops. Because in the past, I don't

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feel like I ever got like notified, like, oh,

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hey, like you can sign up for this workshop.

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Now is just randomly like on their website. And

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by the time I found it, it was already filled.

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And typically they're pretty small. So you can't

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they go really quick. Well, this year they did

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based on your past level. So like VIP celebrity,

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you whatever. You had a time slot where you could

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go in and I think every day you could choose

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up to like four like workshops or panels or whatever

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And just reserve your spot ahead of time now

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It sounds cool in theory But then a lot of people

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got pissed off because essentially everyone with

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like the celebrity VIP passes just went in and

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just reserved all the spots and I will say it's

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a it was a little clunky. So I I bought tickets

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for my wife and I, but I used my email address.

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So therefore, because it was based off email

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address, I could only reserve my spot. I couldn't

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reserve a spot. Oh, it's like, well, shit. I

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don't know. I guess you can sit there and watch

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me or Like it's kind of that was kind of shitty.

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But yeah, I'm also something that they're doing

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this year that I don't I, you know, maybe Alex,

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you can kind of speak to this. I haven't ever

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noticed this before, but they're doing their

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10 minutes of hate. I'm sorry. That was that

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was 1984 again. They're doing a panel where you

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can. It's with the staff. They did this. They

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did this last year. Did they really? They did.

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OK. I did not hear about it last year. Did. In

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fact, I think there's somebody in the chat who

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went to the panel last year where they take feedback.

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I don't know how much they take. Last year at

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ECC, I was working. A booth, the booth of the

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booth that I normally do. I'm not doing that

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this year. I'm just going to kissing boots this

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year. No. I. Yeah, somebody in the chat did go

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to that that panel last year for Emerald City

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Comic Con. I'll be curious to see what they changed

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this year. These events are unwieldy at best.

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So making big, drastic changes to how they run

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operations is a big undertaking. So. I. Chat

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saying they were very receptive to feedback to

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me being receptive and hearing the feedback is

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different than implementing it. That's very true.

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I want to know what they're going to do. So I

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will be curious to see the show this year. So

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Dog Dad, how how was it? Because I imagine because

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I know I saw a lot of people very angry last

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year. Um, like people yelling and cussing about

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how stuff sucked. Um, so I imagine a panel where

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you're like, Hey, come tell us why we sucked.

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Um, I think it could be, I think that might turn

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into like a riot. Like in my head, there was

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a, there was a lot of issues last year. So I

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don't know. Um, yeah, dog, dad, I'm, I'm interested

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was Oh, it's very civil. Wow. That's nice. Okay.

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Other things that I'm excited for. I'm always

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I always love the cosplay, you know, the triple

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crown cosplay. I love going to that this year,

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like getting some stuff signed. There's not to

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me. There's like not a lot of super big celebrities

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going. I am I have a giant Funko pop. Oh, of

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Shenron here that I'm going to get autographed

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by the voice actors of Dragon Ball Z, one of

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my favorite, like, animes. So I'm going to get

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that signed. I'm going to get a comic book sent

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off and graded. I'm going to get my. What is

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this? The the new order helmet. John Boyega.

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Yes, that's going to be cool. And this like,

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if you haven't noticed, I kind of have a helmet

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collection going on. So there's like a helmet

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back there. This helmet. I got a Katie sack off

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to sign this helmet right here. So, yeah, I definitely

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have like a helmet collection going. So I'm going

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to have him sign this. I'm going to do the classic

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like blood, you know, handprint on the face before

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he signs it. But, um... I don't know. What do

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you think? Oh, wow, you're back. You're back.

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No, this is important, okay? Because now I have

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my Comic -Con tickets. I just bought them right

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now. You're just like, are we going? Yes, I'm

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going, okay? I bought my Comic -Con tickets while

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we were on the stream, okay? For me to go and

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then my wife and kid will come Sunday. Like because

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they like to go for a day. Right. Sunday is really

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the best day. Kind of close that day to let you

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kind of go through. So there you go. I have my

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comic con tickets. You heard it here first, YouTube

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and Twitch. And you believe you called everyone

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a bitch on. He he Jay had to call me out of it.

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Are we going? Are we fine? You know what? Just

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going to buy them on the Internet. I was wondering

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what you were doing because you're like super

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like. I was just. Just burning through it. Just

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click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

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They've always like, what are you looking forward

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to seeing? Shut up. Just give my damn tickets.

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I don't need you to ask me questions. So I will

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go to will call. I will be there. It's it's there.

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I'm not again. I'm not working at this year.

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So this is actually good to just go. For the

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first time in like 10 years. Wow. I have not

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been to a convention that I have not worked.

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in 10 years. Do you know like the rules? Because

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I imagine like the rules have changed. I mean,

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I've still been there. I've been at every ECC

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for a decade. I think you've probably seen it.

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But in my office over here to my to this side

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of me is a giant wall of all of my badges, all

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my badges for every con I've ever been to. Right

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on lanyards. I saved them all. you know, I am

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going to be doing cosplay this year and Let's

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see if anyone can guess what I'm doing. So I'm

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gonna show you a picture of what I bought Yep,

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what is that? What is what am I going as chat?

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Come a minute. Um, I actually need to look at

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a couple of things For those that are interested,

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yeah, the identical booth will be there again.

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They're doing their thing. So, yes, they will

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be at the convention. Doing stuff. What else

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is happening? I kind of want to do some magic

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events this year because I don't have to like

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there's a couple of drafts. Yeah. That's I'm

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saying, like, I want to do. I want to do some

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magic events. I kind of want to do like a draft

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or like a sealed event. Right. Yeah. I'm trying

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to think if there's any exhibitors I'm particularly

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looking forward to. This is like your first time

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looking at it, isn't it? No, I mean, I kind of

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glanced through before because I knew humanoid

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was going to go. Nineteen eighty five games always

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has some cool stuff. because they've got all

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that like retro like dice sets and things like

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that. I love artist alley. I always spend a lot

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of time buying custom art. So to me, the biggest

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surprise and the best part about Comic -Con is

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the artists that I've never seen before. That's

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right. I have up at the top of my stairs in my

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house on our superhero wall. We've got like a

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custom flash drawing, like the flash, like Barry

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Allen. I. I love walking artist alley and just

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finding new people who I'd never seen before.

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That's a lot of fun. Finding comic books, like

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the indie comic book guys, last year I bought

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my daughter a bunch of them, right, because she

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loves graphic novels. Right, she is really into

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graphic novels and so just there's so many good

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indie ones that don't get a lot of play that

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I really am looking forward to. To finding just

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random crap. That's one of my favorite things

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to do find random crap You know, oh, yeah, I

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love that. I love I actually I think I have like

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post comic -con depression like after spending

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four days of comic -con and just seeing all the

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art and all the creativity and then going back

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to work you're like Everything's bland and boring

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and depressing All right, so I'm going to give

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you guys another hint. What is that? What is

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that? Who is that? You're going to have to tell

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them, I think. No, you're going to have to find

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me a comic on. You're going to have to find me

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a comic on. Like me, I come no kidding. I will

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try and get we'll try and get some some interviews

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done at Comic Con for the show right after Comic

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Con. So let's show it or comic cons can be a

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little rough for me, but we will figure it out.

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Yeah, absolutely. We'll get some we'll get some

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nice stuff. I'm looking forward to it. People

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can find us at the con. We will be there. Yeah,

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I'll be honest, that really is it for me. It's.

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It's all the new stuff. It's the people I'd never

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seen before, the artists and comic books that

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I never would have heard of had I not just wandered

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through Artist Alley. That's my favorite part.

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Also a place when we were when we were doing

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gaming development, when we were doing developing

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Identico, this is one of the places that we would

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find artists for the for the book was walk through

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Artist Alley, look at the different styles and

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find people who were willing to work. You know,

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there you go. Yeah. That's really smart. That's

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great for it. So All right. Are you guys go to

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comic -con? Let us know down in the comments

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below