Setsucon '09: Saturday
You know, I started writing out this blog entry, doing a mental outline of things to cover... and I thought to myself "holy shit, I can't even remember one of the days we were there... did I really drink that much? I know I didn't drink that much compared to the other guys, but how could I forget about a whole day?!"
That should give you an idea of what Setsucon was like. Of course I didn't have that much to drink, but the fact that it was possible scenario should be added into consideration. I was just slow to remember that Setsucon is a 2-day con. Oh Otakon, how you have spoiled me.
We arrived at the Days Inn on Friday night, before the con kicked off. Since Green attended State College, we had a few friends in the area to visit.
After our "visit" (which inevitably involved some minor alcohol consumption), we returned to the hotel, thanking our lucky stars that we would be able to just wake up and already be at the con in the morning.
Saturday morning, we get our con passes and start setting up the table. I think that this was probably the nicest table setup we've had so far:
Mostly due to the addition of these little guys:
Red sculpted hair onto some Hasbro Mighty Muggs, and painted them with the aid of Green and Cup to make them look like your favorite color-based superhero trio! And before you ask, they're not for sale. Well... they're for sale, but for an outrageous price, because we don't want to let go of them.
Since Red won the Setsucon art contest, and had his piece printed on the Cover of the booklet, he was invited to the opening ceremony and was presented a Setsucon shirt that had the same piece printed on it. It sounded awesome.
We were lucky enough to get a table right next to our good friend, Kilika of Blue and Blond. Right next to him was Applegeek's table with Ananth and Yuko. And last, but certainly not least, was Dave Lister of Paradox Lost. It was pretty cool to be seated next to all the big webcomics. We were even invited to speak at the 
Webcomics 101 panel along with them!
The room was less than packed, to say the least. But it was definitely a lot of fun. I didn't really feel like we had any right to answer audience questions, seeing as to how there are some longer running, more well-known webcomic artists sitting right next to us... but I like to think we earned a few new fans with our charm, wit
and... drunken antics. The room-wide Pictochat was highly entertaining and thankfully short of penises. Some overly-insulting picto-thoughts about Kilika may have surfaced, but at least they came from his good friend, Dave.
After imparting all of our vast webcomic knowledge (really, we spoke for what couldn't have been more than 6 minutes total), a lot of the people from the panel audience visited our table! Very, very cool.
The rest of the day went pretty standard as far as cons go. Checked out the Dealer's Room (my personal favorite), thought about attending a video or two, scrounged for food and coffee (typical con survival tactics), and try to take pictures of some awesome cosplays:
That should give you an idea of what Setsucon was like. Of course I didn't have that much to drink, but the fact that it was possible scenario should be added into consideration. I was just slow to remember that Setsucon is a 2-day con. Oh Otakon, how you have spoiled me.
We arrived at the Days Inn on Friday night, before the con kicked off. Since Green attended State College, we had a few friends in the area to visit.
After our "visit" (which inevitably involved some minor alcohol consumption), we returned to the hotel, thanking our lucky stars that we would be able to just wake up and already be at the con in the morning.
Saturday morning, we get our con passes and start setting up the table. I think that this was probably the nicest table setup we've had so far:
Mostly due to the addition of these little guys:
Red sculpted hair onto some Hasbro Mighty Muggs, and painted them with the aid of Green and Cup to make them look like your favorite color-based superhero trio! And before you ask, they're not for sale. Well... they're for sale, but for an outrageous price, because we don't want to let go of them.
Since Red won the Setsucon art contest, and had his piece printed on the Cover of the booklet, he was invited to the opening ceremony and was presented a Setsucon shirt that had the same piece printed on it. It sounded awesome.
We were lucky enough to get a table right next to our good friend, Kilika of Blue and Blond. Right next to him was Applegeek's table with Ananth and Yuko. And last, but certainly not least, was Dave Lister of Paradox Lost. It was pretty cool to be seated next to all the big webcomics. We were even invited to speak at the 
Webcomics 101 panel along with them!The room was less than packed, to say the least. But it was definitely a lot of fun. I didn't really feel like we had any right to answer audience questions, seeing as to how there are some longer running, more well-known webcomic artists sitting right next to us... but I like to think we earned a few new fans with our charm, wit
and... drunken antics. The room-wide Pictochat was highly entertaining and thankfully short of penises. Some overly-insulting picto-thoughts about Kilika may have surfaced, but at least they came from his good friend, Dave.
The rest of the day went pretty standard as far as cons go. Checked out the Dealer's Room (my personal favorite), thought about attending a video or two, scrounged for food and coffee (typical con survival tactics), and try to take pictures of some awesome cosplays:
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