Heart of Dorkness: Day Two
Phoenix Comicon, day 2
After a strange first day at the 2014 comicon, I wasn’t really sure what to expect on day two.
Day two began immediately differently than the first day, because unlike day one, I actually ate breakfast. This made such an intense difference. Not just breakfast, but a legitimate balanced breakfast. Like the kind you see in the cereal commercials. A bagel with peanut butter, two hard boiled eggs, a bowl of cereal, some yogurt, and orange juice. This made my day so much better right out of the gate. By the time I got to the con, I was in a really good mood and looking forward to the day.
My first stop was the Sheraton hotel, for an hour long spotlight Q&A with Jim Butcher, one of my favorite authors, the author of The Dresden Files, and The Codex Alera. I recorded some of Butcher’s Q&A to post up on here when I get back to the real world, so check back soon. After an hour of listening to Butcher joke and tell stories and answer crowd questions, I was ready to take the rest of the con head on.
I headed to the convention center only to find that noon on a Saturday is possibly the most crowded time to enter the biggest Comicon in the state. Every entrance was bottle-necked by hundreds and hundreds of con goers. But somehow I didn’t care. I didn’t get upset, I didn’t immediately start judging the cosplayers. It was like a whole new atmosphere in my head. I was actually enjoying the frantic energy of the place. I reasoned that I was so hard on the place the day prior, because I didn’t know what to expect, hadn’t eaten, and had to drive two hours before evening getting to the con.