Comic-Con...Part One
Another Comic Con has come and gone and it all seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Jeff and I went down there to show some new pages from 60 Minute Broadway and just get some feedback and put faces to names before we send out official submissions to get the book published.
You can click here and here to read about our exploits at last years event.
This year we got on the road late Friday evening. Jeff had some artwork to finish up last minute so I hung at his place playing XBOX 360 Table Tennis (Leu Ping rules!) while he finished. One pit stop at Barney's Beanery and we were on the road by 8:30.
Last year we ran into huge issues with trying to get a hotel room last minute, so we were smart and booked early. Twice during the day Jeff made sure to call the hotel and say we might be a little late getting down there and to please make sure not to give our room away. We would be there before midnight.
And we were. We pulled into the Town & Country around 10:30 and the lobby was packed. Jeff went up to check in only to find out that, to quote "a reservation doesn't guarantee a room."
Huh? What the hell does it guarantee then? That you'll at least consider us for a room?
Visions of the old Seinfeld bit flashed through my head: "Yes you took the reservation, you were very good at that...you just didn't hold the reservation...that's the most important part of the reservation".
They had to give us what was basically a single room with a pullout couch and they brought a cot up. It was actually a really nice room and add to the fact that we finangled the two nights at half price and got free parking and breakfast due to our inconvenience, it actually worked out well. We just weren't thrilled with the hotel employees constantly referring to us as "partners". I don't think they even knew we worked together on the comic book. We spent a good portion of time there trying to get the housekeeping woman to confirm that we were in fact sleeping in seperate beds and to "Please! Tell your co workers!! PLEASE!!!"
The hotel was kind of like a little mini resort. It had two pools and all the rooms had huge balconies (perfect for card games!), there was a restaurant and such. Pretty nice digs. My favorite game was "Guess who's attending Comic Con" from the gaggle of guests staying there. They were pretty easy to point out, although some were surprises.
I was wired after the drive so I watched World Series of Poker on ESPN until about 3 in the morning and then went to bed. The next day, it was about the temperature of the sun outside as we braved through traffic and searched for parking to go to the convention....
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