For some reason I’m reminded of the time the announcer could NOT make out the name on the card (and it was an original character so there were no other clues) and wound up announcing “Fred. From the planet Fred.”
(Sorry – the statute of limitations has run out of specifics. 🙂 )
1) First time staffing, I got conscripted (pun intended) to run the Dealers room. I’d never had run a shop before, let alone a room full of people who were selling and buying things. I was such a nervous wreck during it. Helped a few dealers out, ended my 12 hours of doing so by going in to an anxiety attack from the nervousness and stress. Fun times.
2) Got talked in to running an eating contest. Never again.
3) Was excited to help out a convention-run video series (ugh…if you look it up…Awesome Rangers 3) as a brash Irishman. Ended up nearly killing myself a series of times.
4) Some how found myself as a backstage hand for the Cosplay contest.
5) One year, found myself on stage trying to buy time for the judges during said contest.
6) Conscripted in to forming my own committee. No regrets on this one.
UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.
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5 thoughts on “Stepping Up”
Kay Shapero
For some reason I’m reminded of the time the announcer could NOT make out the name on the card (and it was an original character so there were no other clues) and wound up announcing “Fred. From the planet Fred.”
(Sorry – the statute of limitations has run out of specifics. 🙂 )
Nick Schneider
HA, this one page brings back memories for me.
1) First time staffing, I got conscripted (pun intended) to run the Dealers room. I’d never had run a shop before, let alone a room full of people who were selling and buying things. I was such a nervous wreck during it. Helped a few dealers out, ended my 12 hours of doing so by going in to an anxiety attack from the nervousness and stress. Fun times.
2) Got talked in to running an eating contest. Never again.
3) Was excited to help out a convention-run video series (ugh…if you look it up…Awesome Rangers 3) as a brash Irishman. Ended up nearly killing myself a series of times.
4) Some how found myself as a backstage hand for the Cosplay contest.
5) One year, found myself on stage trying to buy time for the judges during said contest.
6) Conscripted in to forming my own committee. No regrets on this one.
Ray Dannelly
We all died a little in Awesome Rangers. Some more literal that others. …some a little too close to literal, now that I think on it. 🙁
Nick Schneider
The Indestructible Ed.
Dessa
Wow, I miss times when the Cosplay contest was actually that big… Ceremonies completely fills the Main Events room. Cosplay… not so much.
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UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.
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