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December 3rd, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. E. Bernhard Warg
    E. Bernhard Warg
    December 3, 2015 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Totally not what I thought it would be. I should have posted my predictions (frivolous lawsuit, venue extra-EXTRA unavailable…uh…I know I had at least one other…) with the last comic.
    This should be interesting.

  2. Xero
    Xero
    December 3, 2015 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

    …oh S**T

  3. Viga
    Viga
    December 3, 2015 at 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Now that’s a nightmare. Embezzlement?

  4. Glenn
    Glenn
    December 3, 2015 at 9:51 am | # | Reply

    Set the Wayback Machine to 1980. Galacticon in Los Angeles is supposed to be at the Bonaventure Hotel downtown. All the fen show up and… no con. It was eventually learned that the chair had “invested” the entire con treasury in a white, powdery substance and got busted. There’s a whole class of us called Galacticon Refugees who discovered Loscon 7 at the Anaheim Sheraton and have been going to Loscon ever since.

    • Kay Shapero
      Kay Shapero
      December 5, 2015 at 3:41 am | # | Reply

      Well that explains a few things – that was when a “friend” told me how Galacticon, the con he was working on had just lost it’s person in charge of the art show and would I pullleeeezzzee take over running said art show. Next month. Already all organized and stuff. Being way too naive for my own good I said ok, and about the time I noticed the “organization” was nil and I had stuck something together with spit and wire, I was informed that the con was suddenly cancelled due to losing its hotel (this about a week before it was scheduled). I was so relieved I really didn’t pay any more attention to the thing. Figures they didn’t warn anybody. Chairman get caught pushing or just send the whole budget up his nose? Idiot.

      • Glenn
        Glenn
        December 7, 2015 at 9:17 am | # | Reply

        Caught pushing.

  5. Kip
    Kip
    December 3, 2015 at 3:41 pm | # | Reply

    I can rarely say something “started on a cliffhanger”. Consider me in suspense!

    • E. Bernhard Warg
      E. Bernhard Warg
      December 4, 2015 at 5:53 am | # | Reply

      What about many episodes of 21st century “Doctor Who?”

  6. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    December 3, 2015 at 8:57 pm | # | Reply

    …not what I had guessed… really hoping is something along the lines of ‘oh, didn’t we tell you? The money all gets transfer to this other account during the off-season. For reasons.’

  7. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    December 4, 2015 at 12:36 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Now willt his be a Los Pegasus situation…

  8. JasonAW3
    JasonAW3
    December 5, 2015 at 7:56 am | # | Reply

    OK, what ancient Chinese guy did they manage to tick off? “May you live in interesting times” indeed…

  9. E. Bernhard Warg
    E. Bernhard Warg
    December 5, 2015 at 6:06 pm | # | Reply

    Did they invite a musical act who, not realizing that a fan-run convention is not a typical venue, took advantage of Room Service?

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