By the time you see this comic, the conclusion to my five part series of SDCC predictions, the con will technically be over. I will likely be more cognizant and in good health than my illustrated adventures would suggest, but only just barely. I had a revelation about San Diego Comic-Con this year. In the years, months and weeks leading up to the show I posted some rather negative thoughts about the SDCC exhibitor experience. It’s too big, too poorly organized, too expensive, too not focused on comics… etc, etc. These things are all still true, but most of them are true (in some way) of most North American conventions. I finally realized that there are two contributing factors that make SDCC seem like such a monster by comparison. They are A) The 2 extra days and B) the 100,000 extra people.

Let me explain. Regarding A), most comic conventions are 3 days long, Friday through Sunday. Anime conventions are usually 4 days, but you can easily skip the first day as most anime kids are in school on Thursday. You can also skip the next day as well as the two following days, because most anime conventions are macabre pits of despair and torment. San Diego, on the other hand, is 5 days. 5 ACTUAL days. The show starts properly on Wednesday and there are 10’s of thousands of people there on Wednesday ready to go go go! That means you really need to be there on Tuesday to set up, if not first thing Wednesday morning. Even then, you still might be flying in on Tuesday and either way you’ve committed almost a solid week to this show. This is all compounded by the fact that due to its size and scope, one day at SDCC feels like 4 at any other show. By the time you crawl out of the airplane and back into your own bed, you’ve lost the mental, and emotional equivalent of at least a year. When you break it down, no 1 day of SDCC is that draining or even unpleasant at all. It’s the week that you lose that makes it feel that way.

Concerning B), there is no other comic type convention in the world where 100,000+ people attend the show (ie are walking around on the show floor), and an ADDITIONAL 100,000ish people are just IN SAN DIEGO for some reason. I mean people that don’t have show floor badges, but are still in town for parties, panels, offsite events and shmoozing. This means any time you try to pop outside for a quick lunch, you are immediately sucked up in a veritable sharknado of human beings. A humnado, if you will. The noise and congestion and chaos created by all of these additional bodies makes the streets outside of the convention extremely unwelcoming and tumultuous, especially if you aren’t a huge fan of crowds.

Add to both of these factors that the hotel lottery for SDCC is a fucking nightmare, and the airlines jack up their prices for all San Diego flights for that week and you’ve got a really fantastic, amazing, extremely special event that ends up feeling like a life-sucking, anarchistic struggle for survival. It really isn’t that, though. It’s the former. It’s quite the spectacle and something of a Mecca for geeks, nerds, fans and fun-havers. I’m going to strive to remind myself how lucky I am to get to do things like San Diego Comic-Con for MY ACTUAL JOB, and complain less about the minor inconveniences. I’m also going to stop suggesting people, fans and exhibitors alike, stay away from the show at all cost. It’s a worthy pilgrimage. Even if you only make it once, you should probably make it.

My friend Lar said (repeating something he’d heard during the con), “SDCC is like mowing your front lawn. If you enjoy it, you’re weird, but if you don’t do it for awhile people start to worry about you.” That’s incredibly right, but I am going to try and be more like the weird guy that enjoys it, instead of the guy I am now who probably wishes he could ignore it and make it go away. That said, please don’t hold me to any of this come late June next year.

When this week is over, would anyone be interested in a poster/print of all 5 days on one page?

COMMENTERS: What event/time of year do you both love and dread? 

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Writebastard· 99 weeks ago

Oh! Here first am I. So I’ll do my tumblr comment againe:

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <HORK>

That is what it seems like to me.

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Writebastard· 99 weeks ago

Also I seem to have puked in the comment system as a matter of solidarity. My left arm is encased in some sort of well-articulated chromed and hot-glued foam-board which is very clever in terms of technique but is not actually a costume, as I have not left the house for four days.

Am I robot?

There is beer.

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Josh · 99 weeks ago

There is a certain group of family members that I tend to dread seeing around holidays. It may not be the same thing as an event you were asking about of course, but my cousins literally have an Uncle Stepdad. So…that.

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Mitch H. · 99 weeks ago

Uh, dude, Comiket started cracking 500k in the middle Oughts. Admittedly, Comiket is pretty stripped-down and could arguably be better-described as a truly enormous artist’s alley rather than a traditional convention, but still – 560,000 bodies, all passing through one, admittedly enormous, convention center. And they do it twice a year.

SDCC is probably the event that mostly closely corresponds to Comiket, but we’re still talking about something five times the size of SDCC.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

Pretty sure I mentioned North American cons as the focus of my essay.

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bowtiesarecool · 99 weeks ago

I can’t imagine a worse place to be for an non-Japanese speaker…

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Lily · 98 weeks ago

Not to mention all that stuff he specifically mentioned about the EXTRA PEOPLE IN TOWN FOR TANGENTIALLY-RELATED CRAP, which Comike (and Japan Expo) don’t do.

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Jaydit Skiabe · 99 weeks ago

Well so far ComicCon IS the time of year I love/dread, because I’m never able to go, so all I get are awesome pictures and stories and a deeply seated longing to subject my own self to such abuses of excess.

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Courtney · 99 weeks ago

And people wonder why I love going to Dragon*Con. Not nearly as crowded and just as much fun! If not more!

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@theelkmechanic · 99 weeks ago

Love and dread? October through Christmas, because Halloween and pies at Thanksgiving and, hey, Christmas, but mall parking lots become stress-inducing nightmare zombie mobs, yet my wife insists on bringing me for my uncanny ability to get the closest parking space to the door.

Oh, and “nacho cheese remnants and hot dog water” almost made me lose my breakfast.

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@borednihilist · 99 weeks ago

I’ve never been to any con, much less Comic-Con, but I’m not sure I could handle the stress of such large crowds. Hell, waiting in the lunch line back in high school annoyed me, so I can’t imagine waiting in lines for any of the panels. But I do enjoy much of the nerdy news that comes from SDCC, and the cosplay pics all the geeky sites feature. That said, if I were to ever attend a con, it would probably be a smaller one, so it would be easier to navigate and I’d be better able to meet the people I’m interested in meeting – i.e. the artists of all the various types of comics I read! Is there a con that Joel, Ryan North, Zach Weiner, and Jeph Jacques all go to? That’s the con I’d want to visit.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

ECCC in Seattle is the one you want to go to.

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Dave · 99 weeks ago

Thanks Joel, It’s nice to get a fresh take on the whole thing. I’ve always thought that people that truly truly hated the SDCC experience have a bit of an obligation to the hundreds of folks on the waiting list to maybe step aside and let someone else have their shot. I mean Matt Inman of the Oatmeal can raise nearly a million dollars for a Tesla museum but he has to beg (so far unsuccessfully) to share space at the con. It’s nuts. So thanks!

For the rest of you folks, here are some tips from an old SDCC vet.

1. Don’t stay in a downtown hotel. Those are for people who are determined to get into Hall H. Those people are crazy. The hotels know this. They know that if you’re willing to get up at 3 AM to get in line you’re willing to pay insane hotel fees to do so. That said, as Joel found out, San Diego doesn’t really have a taxi service you can rely on. Stay at a hotel that has access to the Trolley. There are a few in Mission valley but my favorite is the Double Tree as it is literally on top of a trolley station. Note that this will probably cost you Hall H. The trolley starts running at about 5 am, which means it’ll get you to the Con at 5:30. That’s right on the edge of being able to get into Hall H first thing.

2. Your other option is to rent a car but for the love of god don’t park downtown. You’ll never get in/out during the Con. Park at Qualcomm Stadium (which is free) and take the trolley in. If you must drive downtown don’t park right on top of the convention center, buy parking in the Horton Plaza lot off of 1st street. You’ll have easy in and out access at the expense of walking about 4 or 5 extra blocks (it’s a sacrifice after a day on your feet at the con but you won’t sit in traffic for an hour)

3. Don’t try to eat right near the Con. As Joel said the crowds are insane. Downtown SD is a traditional city grid with numbered streets going north and south and lettered streets going east / west…. with a few named east/west streets in between. The con is centered on 5th street.

Don’t walk down 5th street.

When you leave the con head on over to 4th or 6th. They’ll be busy but you’ll be shocked at how much lighter they are. 3rd and 7th are dead. Flat out dead. You’ve still got to cross the street with the crazy mob and protesters and such, but once you get past that it isn’t that hard to escape the crowd. Lots of restaurants on 3rd or north of Market with no waiting even during prime-time. Hell, there are some places that on normal San Diego weekends are absolutely packed and yet, during the con, are empty because they aren’t close enough to the center and all the locals have been driven off by the geekswarm.

best of luck folks!

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@JonS253 · 99 weeks ago

There’s also a Ralph’s supermarket up the street. You’d never expect to find one there, but it has an underground parking garage, so people can go there. And it has a deli counter. Back when I lived in the area, that deli counter fed me at least twice a day during con.

Now if only Seattle had a worthwhile public transit system so I could make it to ECCC (parking in Seattle’s worse than parking in Diego, believe it or not).

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leeapeea · 99 weeks ago

I live in New England, so I LOVE LOVE LOVE September. It’s perfect weather for almost all outdoorsy things (except ice hockey – not far enough north for that to start in September). But I run transportation for the largest school district north of Boston and my department is… me. So I rarely see outside my office in September anymore, except when I walk to Planned Parenthood and donate whatever money I have and beg them to put birth control in the city water.

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CatVonAwesome· 99 weeks ago

It was great to meet you on, I think?, day 3? By the time con security was waking me from my slumber on the concrete outside Hall H on Sunday I had lost most sense of when things had happened. I only knew it was Sunday because I had drilled into my head for a year that I would be on under those tents Sunday for my SuperWho morning.

By the time I was at my hotel sunday night I had lost all ability to recall thoughts regarding names, times, places, my own name, my family, where I actually live and how I was getting back there. My body was attempting to shut itself down after 5 days of soft pretzels, coffee, cookies and red meat. (Though “meat” is a generous word.) Despite my hotel being in fucking Mordor, they did have a great breakfast so there was a bit of nutrition happening. And the shuttle service from Mordor was wonderful. Frodo should’ve been so lucky.

But, despite all of these things, I’m already blocking off the dates for next year. I can’t stay away. Exhaustion, euphoria and realizing your mere feets away from the beards of The Vikings is better than any drug.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! (Threat? Warning? Excitement? All of these things?)

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MrPlow99 · 99 weeks ago

One does not simply take shuttle service from Mordor!

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Kiltman · 99 weeks ago

#ECCC Is Now A Love/Hate thing For Me…It Started Out As A “Hey Maybe I Could Drive A Couple CelebS I Wanted To Meet, And They Will Give Me Free Stuff.. And Then Morphed Into Managing Alll The Ground Transports For What Has Become A (Pretty Damn Big Ass) Convention. Soo.. I Enjoy It…But Now With 50X More Stress.

(Jennie Breeden, Norm Reedus, Jonathan Frakes, And Wil Wheaton, In Case You Were Wondering…) #Bonusround, Rolled A 2Fer1 & Met Our Joel Watson At The Same Time..#Priceless

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

Bah… you love it.

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Jonathan Reilly · 99 weeks ago

Man, I’ve done my share of overstimulating travel and the thing that saves my brain is some time before and after to acclimate. Leaving Burning and spending two days in a resort pool saves my brain every year.

As a suggestion, why not fly in to Los Angeles the weekend before SDCC and relax a bit before you go head to head with KHAAAAAN. Stay with friends, relax, swim in a pool, enjoy the Stone Beer Garden, maybe even go to Disneyland if that’s your thing (though it’s not terribly relaxing).

Drive down with your friends on Tuesday afternoon- set up your booth and merch and steady yourself for the NERD ULTRA MARATHON. I recommend flasks.

Once the con is over, pack up your stuff on Monday, head back to Los Angeles, take a Silkwood shower to get the Con Crud off and Decompress. Give the PTSDCCSD abate before you get on a plane and take a leisurely flight back on Wednesday, schedule permitting.

Bracketing your con experience with small group, low key social interaction with people you like might help to wash the OVERWHELM out of your psyche.

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kerys · 99 weeks ago

My fiance is second in command of a small multi-genre con (think a mini D*C w/~2-3000). I keep trying to convince him that he wants to take off from his day job 1-2 days before & after the con, he keeps saying it’s a great idea then not doing it. One day I will convince him!

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

The only problem with this plan is that it keeps me away from my family for even longer.

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Tom327Cat · 99 weeks ago

I like mowing my lawn and considering what people think of as normal, weird is a preferential state. Also, to be seen by so many? That might be too exhausting.

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Chaucer59 · 99 weeks ago

LOVE/HATE – Thanksgiving. I’m the family chef. We always have more people than space, and I can never recruit enough help. It’s exhausting, but I’m good and getting better every year. Still, something about starting meal preps two days in advance and getting up at 6 a.m. on a holiday morning just so the bird will be out and cooling by two p.m. really sucks.

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Candace · 99 weeks ago

I hear you on the Thanksgiving thing. I love all the Thanksgiving food, but it’s a lot of work, and a big calorie hit right before another big calorie hit (Christmas.)

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Candace · 99 weeks ago

Christmas. I love Christmas, and Christmas music (all kinds of Christmas music, from the sincere to the satirical), but it always seems like so much work for something that should be enjoyable, and I often seem to get sick around that time of year, so I frequently have to do all this Christmas prep while ill.

That being said, it’s gotten easier since we convinced the family to just do gifts for the kids, and make charitable donations in honor of the adults. I love wrapping gifts and cooking, but not while ill!

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furrbear· 99 weeks ago

I used to go to SDCC as a guest of a pro, but that was like a decade ago – I can only imagine what it’s like now, and I’m only going back once I develop the ability to teleport*. No waiting for panels! And con security can take a flying leap trying to do anything about someone who can teleport, right? And being able to teleport anywhere I want for sleep and/or food – no problems with personal maintenance!

*Think the original Tomorrow People – yay low-budget ’70s UK SF!

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While I’m at SDCC, I’m posting predictions as to the toll that SDCC (the con, the parties, the lack of sleep) will have on my physical and mental well being. Outlook = Probably found in a ditch.

Where am I? Only the wind knows. Also I bet gender-bent Jon Snow, despite knowing nothing Jon Snow, knows. She was around the booth a bunch earlier and seemed to have a cache of Dragon Glass under her pelt cape. As everyone who’s studied cartoonist lore knows, Dragon Glass is one of the only things that can kill us, along with bullets packed with soil/rocks from the town of our birth and entitled reader comments.

Truth be told, I am having an amazing SDCC experience. I’m spending time with some of my very favorite human beings and I’ll definitely be coming away with a few new favorites to add to the list.

When this week is over, would anyone be interested in a poster/print of all 5 days on one page?

Coming to SDCC? Come see me at the Blind Ferret Booth (#1231) in the Webcomics area. I will have books and shirts, sketches, Lil’ Wil plushies and ??????THE MYSTERY BOX??????!!!! Speaking of books, if you buy HijiNKS ENSUE Vol’s 1 or 2 you’ll get a free mini print featuring my Sharknado sequel posters! More info HERE.

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Lani · 100 weeks ago

Oh, god, now I NEED to see that picture. PLEEEEEEEASE?

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WongBal · 100 weeks ago

Glad you’re having a good time, Joel! Will we get more of your kickass photo comics once you get home?

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Candace · 100 weeks ago

Yes, please, Joel, I miss the Fancy Photo Comics.

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Dan · 100 weeks ago

Dear gods but I want Sadburry Eggs to be a real thing…

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Notebooked · 100 weeks ago

You can make it real. You can make it happen.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

They extremely are a real thing. I invented them in Seattle last year and there is video evidence.

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Dan · 99 weeks ago

You’re a visionary, sir.

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@JonS253 · 100 weeks ago

An image of all five days on one page would be cool. So would a picture of the 10th Doctor riding a T. rex, fighting Skeletor in a Sailor Moon outfit. Just sayin’…

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Notebooked · 100 weeks ago

A poster of the five days, read from up-to-down?

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tom_zombie· 100 weeks ago

I read this in Hunter S Thompson’s voice from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Laughed my balls off.

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lou · 100 weeks ago

Every time I read something by Hunter S. Thompson, I hear it in the voice of General Hunter Gathers from the Venture Brothers.

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ETSD· 100 weeks ago

I’m confused … which one of them is wearing the Sailor Moon costume?

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Caitlin · 100 weeks ago

I think Skeletor, but I prefer the visual of the t-rex wearing it.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

Correct.

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Candace · 100 weeks ago

I think Joel is under the table, mumbling bloooooood….

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Trevor · 99 weeks ago

Is it wrong that I now WANT to see the 10th Doctor riding a T-Rex? That sounds awesome!

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lou · 99 weeks ago

Joel, we can’t find you. Come in, Joel. Joel? Joel! JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLL!!!

->Continue or Exit

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@kellyskritters · 99 weeks ago

Well I’m glad you’re having fun!

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MrPlow99 · 99 weeks ago

Anyone else love the fact that the Sunday comic hasn’t been posted yet? It’s seems perfect for the character arc.

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Rich Hendricks · 99 weeks ago

I shall demand a picture of a T-Rex riding The Doctor for my next signed copy. 🙂

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Roborat · 99 weeks ago

Okay, for the next year, everybody ask him for this picture.

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Dave · 99 weeks ago

…and Joel was never heard from again.

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lou · 99 weeks ago

Wow, he’s really sticking to it; he didn’t post a Day 5 strip yet!

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

art imitates life imitates extreme exhaustion.

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@efin98 · 99 weeks ago

Should we expect a “man found wandering the streets of San Diego under the influence of some mysterious substance”?__More importantly, should we start a collection to help with your bail money or do you already have that budgetted into your con budget? 😀

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Dave · 99 weeks ago

This is pretty fitting. Seems every time I came by at the Con he wasn’t there. Oh well. I bought a print from his daughter (no new books) anyway… but you missed out on your Starbucks Joel!

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

You bought that print one morning when I wasn’t able to get a cab to take me to the show. I was staying 20ish miles away and no cab companies would actually send anyone to pick me. This happened more than once that week.

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Dave · 99 weeks ago

I came by another time when you were at lunch too. No worries though, I’m not complaining. Dude’s gotta eat, and lord knows that’s tough to do at the Con. I’ve shaken your hand before. I go to the con to support the artists. I don’t HAVE to see you to do that and even buying from someone else at the booth still feels more personal than the online store.

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While I’m at SDCC, I’m posting predictions as to the toll that SDCC (the con, the parties, the lack of sleep) will have on my physical and mental well being. Outlook = Not So Good.

Well that escalated quickly. Despite only being the 2nd real real day of the convention proper, Friday is usually my 3 rd or 4th consecutive day with no sleep (after 2-3 weeks with little to no sleep), and marks at least a few days of eating like a garbage monster. It’s also begins mere hours after the closing of the largest party I attend each year, w00tstock.

Despite writing this days before the actual event, I can assure with 100% future-man-from-the-past certainty that this years w00tstock was the greatest, the geekiest and the most ridiculously fantastical melding of all of the things I love, all happening in one place, which is a place full of people super excited about loving the same things I do in the same way I do. How do I know this? Because it always is. Every year always tops every previous year. Eventually, in order to top itself, w00tstock will have to be a theater full of blow job robots that fart money.

Coming to SDCC? Come see me at the Blind Ferret Booth (#1231) in the Webcomics area. I will have books and shirts, sketches, Lil’ Wil plushies and ??????THE MYSTERY BOX??????!!!! Speaking of books, if you buy HijiNKS ENSUE Vol’s 1 or 2 you’ll get a free mini print featuring my Sharknado sequel posters! More info HERE.

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Liam · 100 weeks ago

$200 for a sandwich?

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The Unknown FB · 100 weeks ago

That’s only a minor hyperbole on Joel’s part: con food be hella pricey.

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deadrobot · 100 weeks ago

“I saw a Ghostbuster stab a Boba Fett over a cobb salad.”

That line made me have a baby. I love you.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

Please name the baby Jango Zuul.

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Stranger · 100 weeks ago

Its like Lord of The Flies, except con goers are way too fat to crush anyone with a giant boulder

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Daveren · 100 weeks ago

Blood.

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Michael Corley · 100 weeks ago

Bloooooooooood!

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@Bobuta · 100 weeks ago

Is it possible to get a drawing of these “blow-job robots that fart money” at a future w00tstock that you speak of? This may top my current favorite of Wheaton’s Spicy Dick Milk LOL

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hijinksensue· 100 weeks ago

Man, I’ll draw just about anything for just about anyone.

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@Bobuta · 100 weeks ago

Then “make it so” and take my money! I can’t wait to see how you imagine such robots would look LOL

Seriously though, let me know if there’s an official method for requesting this drawing or if this is good enough 🙂

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Steve · 100 weeks ago

This is how Chaos Legionnaires are born.

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lou · 100 weeks ago

I have to find if The Doctor ever met J.R.R. Tolkien. He’s teamed up with other English literary figures, even before the relaunch.

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Mjoellnir · 100 weeks ago

Tolkien intolerable? Kill him with fire!°°

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hijinksensue· 100 weeks ago

His world building and characters are second to none. HIs prose is nearly impenetrable.

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lou · 100 weeks ago

I thought it was well-known that Tolkien was a linguistics professor first and an author second.

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Orf · 100 weeks ago

Do you clear a profit on SDCC? Seems like a horrible crucible of people-flesh and overpriced services.

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

I won’t do a show twice if I dont make a profit. SDCC is a bit of a different animal because there are intangible benefits in terms of super fun time parties, networking, making new friends, etc. I still make a profit but its not as good as other shows.

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earlleonardmusicforkids· 100 weeks ago

Aw man, i never knew i wanted something and now i want nothing but…

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I’m trying something different for this years “while I’m at SDCC” comics. Instead of guest comics, or NO comics like I’ve done in the past, I’ve decided to make predictions as to the toll that SDCC (the con, the parties, the lack of sleep) will have on my physical and mental well being.

For Day 2, the first real day of the con, I assume spirits and energy are high despite my undoubted lack of sleep and non-lack of beer the night before at the Farking Wheaton w00tstout launch part at Stone Brewery.  I’m sure I’ll have had my typical boost of first day convention energy that causes me to be “ON” far more so than I typically am. Those that visited my booth were probably treated to fits of “playful shouting,” “simulated yelling at high volumes,” “impromptu dance parties” and “actual yelling.” What a lucky bunch they were to see my in my prime before it all went terribly wrong on Day 3.

Coming to SDCC? Come see me at the Blind Ferret Booth (#1231) in the Webcomics area. I will have books and shirts, sketches, Lil’ Wil plushies and ??????THE MYSTERY BOX??????!!!! Speaking of books, if you buy HijiNKS ENSUE Vol’s 1 or 2 you’ll get a free mini print featuring my Sharknado sequel posters! More info HERE.

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Stranger · 100 weeks ago

Wow, conventions sounds like an ordeal. Youre probably going to get the Con Crud on top of it

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Opie · 100 weeks ago

Con Crud is a small price to pay for the chance to almost meet NPH !!

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Bryce · 100 weeks ago

To rip-off an old stand-up joke, ever notice that the more successful self-referential comic writers get the more their strips deal with going to or coming from conventions?

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hijinksensue· 100 weeks ago

That sounds like a dig. If you dont enjoy the content I post here, I suggest you discontine your consumption of it and refrain from commenting.

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Mahnarch · 99 weeks ago

Joel, Joel, Joel… *waves Joel over with a drunken swagger* [arm around Joel’s shoulder (more to keep himself up, than Joel)] He said, “More SUCCESSFULL”… MAN!!! I thin’… I think That’s a com.. *hic* ..a comsti .. *hic* consumable,,, man! I’d take it!

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HikingViking · 100 weeks ago

Maybe you could steal the disco ball and fancy lights from the Euro-Rave diner, set them up at your booth, and sponsor that break dance competition between Optimus Primes (Primi? Primu?). That would certainly draw a crowd. Plus, if you need to scream, you can just go all James Brown and shout things like “GET DOWN!”, or “HUH!” while the break dancing is happening.

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lou · 100 weeks ago

I’m sure Primes is the correct plural form.

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The Unknown FB · 100 weeks ago

It is, according to the various incarnations of the shows, books, and graphic novels.

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hijinksensue· 100 weeks ago

Primuus.

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deadrobot · 100 weeks ago

From Gawker.com ComiCon post comments:

“6-2-1 rule, people. Every damn day, 6-2-1:
6 hours of sleep
2 meals
1 shower”

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DrPepperMD· 100 weeks ago

In case this comic ever shows up in a book: sandwich, not sandwhich.

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The Unknown FB · 100 weeks ago

Wouldn’t it depend on which sand he had in his wich?
And if he was eating at WhichWich or that eurorave restaurant again?

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hijinksensue· 99 weeks ago

Fixed. Thanks!

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Guest · 52 weeks ago

There aren’t cracker barrels in California

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hijinksensue· 52 weeks ago

Really good point. Consider this comic and all jokes contained within invalid. You are doing God’s work, internet pedant.

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I’m trying something different for this years “while I’m at SDCC” comics. Instead of guest comics, or NO comics like I’ve done in the past, I’ve decided to make predictions as to the toll that SDCC (the con, the parties, the lack of sleep) will have on my physical and mental well being. I’ll have made all 5 days worth of comics in advance, based on the previous 3 years of exhibiting at SDCC and advanced algorithms that can predict exactly how much alcohol I will consume and how little sleep I will get. When I return from SDCC, I will revisit my predictions and let you know how correct they were. SPOILERS: They will be 100% correct because I make the same magical mistakes every year.

I made you a new Lo-Fi comic about iPads and where they go.

Coming to SDCC? Come see me at the Blind Ferret Booth (#1231) in the Webcomics area. I will have books and shirts, sketches, Lil’ Wil plushies and ??????THE MYSTERY BOX??????!!!! Speaking of books, if you buy HijiNKS ENSUE Vol’s 1 or 2 you’ll get a free mini print featuring my Sharknado sequel posters! More info HERE.