Setsucon '09: Sunday

Sunday was short and sweet.

The morning started off with one of our newest fans picking up a commission request of RGB. Although he claims to be "unable to pick a favorite" I can just see his love for Blue flooding out of his pores. Thanks for sparing Red and Green's feelings. Are you registered on our site or forums yet?
The commission he requested was of RGB doing pretty much anything. Green drew a picture of a caped, crusading Red standing on a couch that Green and Blue were playing video games on. Wish I got a picture of it, actually. Wish I got pictures of ALL the commissions. I've got to make that into a habit. I did manage to catch these two beauties, though:

This con was pretty big on commissions, especially for original art. Red and Green much prefer doing original art, for anyone interested in requesting commissions in the future.

Further into the day, the otaku in me came out, and I went on a blindbox buying spree. Not only was I extremely lucky that day, but the dealer was cool enough to let me swap for dupes. And so, because of that

I was able to get every piece of the "Robot" set. Considering how quiet the Dealer's Room/Artist alley was at the time, my squeals of glee could be heard throughout. "Robot" is a series of contemporary art stories compiled by Range Murata. Check it out if you haven't already. A similar series to check out, which is considerably less dark and disturbing, is titled "Flight". I recommend you give "Flight" a try, first.

When 2:30 rolls around, Red heads off to the closing ceremonies while Cup goes to compete in the Iron Cosplay event. Much like Iron Chef, the contestants are assigned the task of creating a dish (in this case, a cosplay) with a secret ingredient (in this case, paper and tape). Cup made it to the final around with his Setsurai/Kingkon gear:

If you couldn't guess, Cup is the one on the left. He armed this girl after the contest ended. Told me he lost to one of the lolita girls, who made a dress:

In a fit of rage, Queen Setsugirl claimed the lives of many.

Please take note of the dramatic lighting on the gentleman in the background. Unintentionally creepy.

Setsucon overall was a great deal of fun. I recall Red saying that there's something nice about smaller cons... had to do with the fact that you could become friendlier with the attendees. We definitely picked up a few more friends at this con

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: