Hello y'all.
so yesterday I had the unique experience of attending Comic Con. Now if you don't know what Comic Con is, let me fill you in: Imagine every nerd you've ever met or heard of. Now add their friends. Now add their friends' friends. Now add their friends' friends' friends, and you have about .000001% of the people that show up. Now I'm not really kidding... there was over 120,000 people there. Now put all those friends in costumes (called cosplays) of their favorite nerd character. Now put them in a building filled with nerd vendors that ONLY sell nerd things for the nerds and aspiring nerds. This merchandise isn't your normal farmers market crafts either. We're talking original paintings, sketches, sculptures, apparel, weaponry, and so much more. Now imagine how many vendors there were for these things. Now forget that number because its wrong. There were over 300 vendors there. Honestly? not enough. Now add three generations of bat mobiles, a life size Smaug head, add about 40 celebrities, and nerd classes going on all day. Now you might, MIGHT.... have a squint at what Comic Con was like this year.
Now lets stake a step back and define what nerd means. The definition has changed over the years. We used to be the outcasts, the people siting by ourselves at lunch, the ones getting beat up by the flag pole, maybe the kid who won the science fair; usually though we were the kids reading way too much who became the teenagers who read waaaaaay too much who then turned into the 20 somethings peacin' out at parties to read more books, go to fencing practice, get back to sketching, and or getting to that strict appointment they have on Saturday nights at 6:00 with channel 264. Well that last part hasn't changed much, but it's pretty obvious the first part is no longer as big of a problem. Get ready world because we don't sit by ourselves anymore. We have our own table that haters aren't invited too where we eat out of our Avengers lunch boxes and have deep conversations about character development. We don't get beat up anymore because we got each others backs. We have realized that there is more to the world than being popular.
Anyway.
So now I will tell you my experience. After we got through the pretty fast paced half mile long line, passing abut 50 different versions of the doctor and barney, we finally set foot in one of the biggest nerd fests in the country... that and a flippin mass of humanity. We walked around for a minute before we had to stop and look at the wands and robes. Then we meandered through the artist alley before looking for someplace to eat. The Hogwarts Pulled Pork Sandwich is never a bad idea. Then we found the TARDIS and took pictures. Then we took pictures with a perfect Elsa, and then a perfect family in which the parents (the Silence and the Weeping Angel) brought their kids (a mini Weeping Angel and a very tiny Doctor) and we decided that some families are raising their children right. Then we bought some prints and visited the Bat Mobiles. Then we drooled a little bit and kept walking. Then we saw Samug's head and realized this was out place and these were our people.
And then my life changed.
Forever.
I met the Doctor.
Actually two of them.
My wonderful, wonderful friend was volunteering at Comic Con as a celebrity escort. She wanted a picture with the 6th and the 8th Doctors. I just happened to be talking to her when she decided to go. So I got to meet two of the Doctors. You know. For free. And basically I didn't actually care what happened for the rest of the day. I just... well ya. And I um.. ya. We just couldn't top that so we went home.
And you know. I just... yep.
And that was Comic Con. The nerd fest that changes lives.
