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So I expected to have to work really hard to come up with a new con name, but then discovered Brew City Comic Con was available.  With all the cons in Milwaukee, how has this one not been grabbed up yet?
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April 2nd, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. calvsie
    calvsie
    April 2, 2015 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

    but Milwaukee doesn’t want a con!

  2. Moose
    Moose
    April 2, 2015 at 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the heck we have over in Virginia.

  3. Bryan E
    Bryan E
    April 2, 2015 at 2:57 pm | # | Reply

    Shots fired.

  4. Xheralt
    Xheralt
    April 2, 2015 at 4:29 pm | # | Reply

    Milwaukee’s various fandoms are so fragmented, scattered and disconnected, it’s possible that a new startup con could legitimately think it was alone out there. And I can say this as a part of the “old-school” cons that faded out decades ago (X-Con, First Contact and Brew-Con). A whole generation was absent from congoing here; I’m the youngest of the old guard, and I’m 50! But now, there is Midwinter Gaming Festival in January (heavy LARP focus, but expanded to other realms of gaming), Concinnity, and of course Anime Milwaukee (AMKE).

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      April 2, 2015 at 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      Finally, someone besides me who remembers the long dead Milwaukee con scene! 😛

      Also, for current cons, you forgot Nezumi Con, Midwest Gaming Classic, the upcoming Nexus Game Fair and Mighty Con Milwaukee.

      …and I know I’m forgetting a few whose names I just can’t remember. 😛

      • Chiaroscuro
        Chiaroscuro
        April 5, 2015 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

        Fur Squared! http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Squared

        Okay. not *technically* Milwaukee…

        • Kay Shapero
          Kay Shapero
          April 5, 2015 at 2:05 am | # | Reply

          Thanks for mentioning that – I keep a list of dates of furry cons I know of, and I hadn’t heard of this one. It has now been added…

          • Chiaroscuro
            Chiaroscuro
            April 12, 2015 at 10:41 am | #

            I just hit up Wikifur. They’re good for that.

      • xheralt
        xheralt
        April 14, 2015 at 4:46 pm | # | Reply

        I’d discounted MGC because it’s Waukesha, not Milwaukee 😉 Besides, I’m so far out of the gaming loop these days it’s not funny. Only reason I knew about Midwinter is that the folks who run it ran their main LARP out of my favorite coffee shop for a long time. Comic cons seem to be one of two extremes, either glorified swap meets, or big-budget extravaganzas like SDCC, and ain’t my scene in either case.

  5. Langland
    Langland
    April 2, 2015 at 6:47 pm | # | Reply

    I thought it was a reference that many people from Milwaukee don’t there is anything more to Wisconsin passed well Milwaukee and Madison. That’s how I interpreted the joke.

    • Ray Dannelly
      Ray Dannelly
      April 2, 2015 at 8:51 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a multi-level joke…

  6. Nick Schneider
    Nick Schneider
    April 3, 2015 at 3:39 am | # | Reply

    Kinda like how no one from Omaha or Lincoln thinks there is anything else in Nebraska.

    I’m pleased that the Lincoln and Omaha con scenes are returning. Omaha’s been getting a redic amount of cons sprouting up.

  7. Bernhard
    Bernhard
    April 3, 2015 at 6:47 am | # | Reply

    Thank goodness he’s offering the flyer to Megan rather than Lynn. It might not end up getting shoved somewhere uncomfortable.

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