if you're not interested in my comic con recap or are instead interested in my PROGRAMMER HUNT, it's at the bottom of this news bulletin.

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anyway, TIME FOR A YEARLY COMIC CON RECOLLECTION OH YEAH LET'S DO THIS

THURSDAY

i flew out at like 9. i was gonna fly to dallas, then to san diego as i do every year. PROBLEM WAS the plane was "broken." after two hours of sitting on the plane the captain and crew were finally just like "ok guys sorry we can't do this anymore everyone needs to get out good luck getting to your respective destinations lol!"

basically by this point they shuttled us into miami where we had an hour and a half to make our flight, and the travel time to the miami airport was like an hour and 20 so we had to cut it close by literally speeding through traffic and RUNNING to the baggage handlers and terminal. panting and out of breath, me and my dad then find out that THIS flight was ALSO delayed by 3 hours.

so after sitting around for a long time trying not to be bored and edgy, we finally board a flight to los angeles, which THEN took us to san diego. we ended up being like 7 hours behind schedule and i pretty much missed the first day of comic con. HOWEVER, i ended up cabbing out to a beach party, where i met J_Seed, Squeef and Ansel!

this party was thrown by Pen Ward of Adventure Time fame and Thurop Van Orman, the creator of Flapjack! i didn't talk much to either of them most of the party but i did meet Kirbopher, Lars Nielsen (Sugarpolyp), and briefly saw Tara Billinger (nosleepjinx) and Zach Bellissimo (seizuredemon) but i didn't end up talking to them that day. later on everyone's old pal RTIL showed up FASHIONABLY LATE in the bat mobile because ladies and gentlemen that motherfucker rides in style. he was too busy smoking a cigarette and wearing sunglasses to talk to me JUST KIDDING actually he came out and him, j_seed, squeef, ansel and i all chilled and took some really gay group photos together. these pictures yet again prove the point that i am extremely not photogenic; either that or i just naturally look like a faggot. IT WILL FOREVER BE A MYSTERY

the party ended but i talked to thurop van orman who had a beautiful heavenly voice. i shook his hand right after he pissed out a bonfire and got done being surrounded by like 30 people. surprisingly he knew me by my GAY INTERNET NAME because i comment on his deviantart journals and shit. very friendly guy though extremely swell

ansel's dad drove me and my dad back home with j ansel and squeef however there wasn't enough room in the car so as the youngest i was forced to lay across my favorite wacky 3 stooges. i ended up not balancing on them correctly and all my weight was on j. i think i broke his hand. :(

FRIDAY

i got up early and didn't sleep much. i took a shower, didnt eat breakfast and ran outside to get in the HUGE comic con hotel bus line. i saw wonchop in the line and wanted to know if he wanted to split a taxi! sadly he didn't know who the fuck i was and generally ignored me which made me turn into a bundle of shame and sadness and heartbreak :'(

i ended up getting to the con in a free (?!) cab ride with some booth professionals. right when i got there i hit the ng booth (where no one was at), had some shitty con food and then headed for the Miyazaki line. i MYSTERIOUSLY snuck into the near-front of the line thereby somehow cutting like a thousand people. after a while i was sitting in place for line an hour and i got really sick of waiting in line. suddenly Tomamoto and Egoraptor appeared in front of the line and i was like WTF and got out of line to talk to them. the line still wasn't moving for like 30 minutes so i just kinda walked off with them.

later on, i had a run in with the ANIMATION POLICE because apparently it's a huge crime to choose hanging out with tomamoto and egoraptor over being in a crowded room with 6000 people when hiyao miyazaki happens to be in said room. i had my hands cut off because they deemed me unworthy of having the ability to make shit anymore. WELL THAT SUCKS

in the little crowd i was apart of appeared Ross O'Donnovan, Faye Mata (in some circles known as PrincessAurora, but in most circles known as "why is there a hot chick in comic con") and Monty Oum, who I did not know at the time, but later came to like and respect. seriously he's THE MAN.

we played some Tekken where i fucked tomamoto's metaphorical video game face up with my metaphorical video game dick (>:3) and then got my ass beat by Monty, who i found out is banned from tournaments for being too good. shortly after i got to meet SKRAGGY who ended up undoubtedly being one of my favorite people to meet. then me and toma went and looked for JEB who was also a really awesome guy who ive been looking to meet for a long time, dating back to my really gay star syndicate days!

later on somehow i ended up in nathaniel milburn's hotel room where we chilled and watched borat. i was there with ansel, j, bluehippo, poxpower, jeb, this dude who i thought was brycemilburn at first but ended up being a totally different awesome filmmaker named patrick, a killer fellow named ramses and a few other classy dudes. j left to go see the premiere of THIRST with rtil and jenna smith later on, hans came back with sucho and chilled and stayed with me, ansel and jeb. jeb bought us two pizzas because at this point we were really hungry. what a swell guy <3 ! i rode home with ansel and mr. Lies again.

SATURDAY

i forget what i did this entire day but later on that night we went to an awesome party that Tom hosted. contrary to popular belief, i was not actually drunk! nor was i pretending to be drunk. you all just cant tell the difference B)

however i will say nath is a fucking cool dude no lies ;D ;D ;(

i walked out at the end with jeb rtil and jenna but we all went our seperate ways and i was like fuck this im not going back to my hotel alone so instead i found my way back to the place where everyone was still talking and i found toma, johnnyutah and SWAIN who were laughing at my rag-taggedy self for going with rtil and jeb and getting DITCHED like a BITCH.

they walked me back to the con center unlike SOME TBA CUNTS (>:o) and i got on my bus and went home. 3 days down one day to go and i had some tired fuckin feet.

list of people from memory who went to the party so im not forgetting to mention anyone because im lame:

J_Seed, Rtil, Squeef, Ansel, Joeybang, Egoraptor, Tomamoto, Skraggy, Rubberninja, Princess Aurora, Kirbopher, CZ_Backlash, Phets, Mike Ruocco, Jeb, Nath Milburn, Patrick, Jimtopia and the awesome Jimtopia crew, Jhonen Vasquez, The Swain, JohnnyUtah, Tom Fulp, Jenna Smith, Dan Paladin, Luis, AfroNinja, NegativeONE, HappyHarry, Poxpower, Nalem, Spanio and Jonas. hopefully i didn't forget too many but i probably forgot a few.

SUNDAEEEYEYEAEEYYY

this was probably the most "to-the-point" day of comic con but it was still pretty cool. i met tara and zach finally which was pretty cool. i went to go watch some l4d2 playthroughs with Nalem, Spanio and a bunch of the other aforementioned people. also i cant remember if nando aka Fthreat was at the party but i also met him! he was really cool

i went to some burger place with HappyHarry and had an interesting conversation on life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and what not and then later on went to dinner at a really good Thai Place with a buncha dudes. me and nando were both broke by this point in the day so we split some pad thai and some of the other gracious fellows (particularly skraggy, faye and spanio) gave us some of their food. it was a pretty memorable session of eats :D

later on we went back out of town to ross/faye/skraggy/monty's hotel room and Monty showed me all of the DEAD FANTASY episodes as well as showing everyone a sneak preview of DEAD FANTASY 5, which was pretty damn sweet. i showed him Madness Bar Brawl too, which is pretty much the only notable thing ive ever been apart of to date. he liked it which was a compliment in itself considering the stuff he makes is a thousand times more epic than any of my doodley nonsense

finally we went back to ego/toma/harry's hotel room so they could shoot the second episode of GAMER TONIGHT LIVE. unfortunately i left within the first like 2 minutes of them filming shit. but it was still a cool night. it sucked to leave. yup.

but yeah that's comic con 09.

BONUS DAY

on my way back home, i ended up running into Hans and Jimtopia's gang at the airport. we hung out, drew on Jim's tablet, did a wacky sketch of sonic and robotnik in speedos (i hope this surfaces to the internet someday with perhaps some hilarious voice commentary) and ate some food until it was time for everyone to part.

on my way back i experienced yet ANOTHER fucking 3 hour delay and ended up getting stuck in Dallas, Texas for the night. we were pretty pissed not to be getting back home, but we ended up running into and ordering pizza with the legendary Leo Liebelman! he gave us one of his awesome prints and gave me some extremely inspirational art tips. we flew back the next morning with yet another (minor 10 minute) delay. not that bad but stacking onto the whole day we lost in travel, as well as the whole first day of comic con and a collective 11 hours of travel delays, yeah. it was just icing on the cake. we're never flying american airlines ever again roflmao

THE end.

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there were a lot of people i sadly didn't get to see this year at comic con and a lot of new faces that i hope will go next year. i'm definitely going next year, year #4 dudes fuck yeah

i hope everyone that didn't go has the chance to go next year :(

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OK FINALLY. if you were interested in my programmer hunt, this is where you need to be.

again, me, Lenko and RED.M are still looking for programmers for a giant fighting game we're going to make. for more info, refer to this post. and yes, for those who might ask, the programmer is still going to get far more of any sponsorship money that we get our hands on than anyone else working on the project, including us directors.

i'd tell you more about it but i don't want to mass-whore the game out to everyone just yet, especially not in a primarily comic-con news post. but yeah, if you're interested, the same rules still apply; leave a comment here or send a PM to me on newgrounds or deviantart or whatever you use.

thanks!

- anigen

ps: this image below never fails to make me laugh