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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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└ Tags: lynn, Mark Cudgel, megan

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calvsie

April 2, 2015 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

but Milwaukee doesn’t want a con!
Moose

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

Welcome to the heck we have over in Virginia.
Bryan E

April 2, 2015 at 2:57 pm | # | Reply

Shots fired.
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
  
  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
    
    April 5, 2015 at 12:06 am | # | Reply
    
    Fur Squared! http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Squared
    
    Okay. not *technically* Milwaukee…
    - 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
        
        April 12, 2015 at 10:41 am | #
        
        I just hit up Wikifur. They’re good for that.
  - 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.
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
  
  April 2, 2015 at 8:51 pm | # | Reply
  
  It’s a multi-level joke…
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.
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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