High light: Thursday, walking around wide-eyed and stunned at the sheer hugeness of the experience.
Low light: Time is a con-goer's most precious resource. To do anything at the show seemed to required a minimum wait of an hour, with the most popular stuff like Hall H requiring camping out overnight.
Best experience: Attending an open pitch panel for Thrillbent, the online comics site created by John Rogers and Mark Waid. Mark stayed on after the panel to listen and critique everyone's pitches, even though he didn't have to.
Worst experience: The Geek and Sundry Lounge was hot as balls and the venue seemed to be confused about the events they were running.
Best bargain (had to buy it, no freebies): Finding the one Atomic Robo trade I didn't have in one of the 50% bins.
Best Freebie: There were a lot of collectors bags from Warner Brothers, but I'm going to go with my Gotham lanyard/promo card.
Most welcome surprise: I'm not a physical wreck after the show. I packed light, got plenty of sleep and didn't have a bag of gaming books on my back.
Most unwelcome surprise: I was originally supposed to fly out Wednesday night and got bumped to the Thursday morning redeye. That gave the weekend a compressed feeling that I never quite got over.
Best costume: There was an Ursula costume at the Masquerade with articulated arms and everything. If Disney ever does a full-blown Little Mermaid stage show, they need to hire that designer.
Coolest booth: The Marvel booth was the beating heart of the show, especially when it brought celebrities by to clog up the aisle.
Strangest moment: The one original sketch at the Masquerade about farting and a scooby style mucus monster and I seriously wonder if it even happened of it was just a hallucination brought on by a Joker cosplayer's Smilex gas.
Favorite item available in the Exhibit Hall:
Purchased:
Half-off trades
Gifts
ISIS Badge Holder
Swag:
Con ticket
Hotel room
WB bag
Gotham lanyard
Penny Dreadful lanyard
Sold out:
Pacific Rim experience
Things to buy after the con:
Even more comics
Best Quote:
"The exhibit hall is like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark except everything is for sale."
