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03:10:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not funny &#8212; I&#8217;m <em>freakishly obsessed<\/em>!&#8221; I burst out laughing when I heard this (thoroughly embarrassing the girl who&#8217;d said it, I think), but it seemed as oddly appropriate as it was amusing while I wandered around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emeraldcitycomicon.com\/\" title=\"Emerald City ComiCon\">Emerald City ComiCon<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4318218\/\" title=\"Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1\/4318218_3484499cf9_w.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"99\" alt=\"Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d heard about the con just a couple of days ago, and decided to go more or less on a whim this morning when I had nothing else planned for the day. I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure what to expect, as I&#8217;ve never been a major comic collector, and my only prior experience of any sort with comic conventions was watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00003CX9D\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Kevin Smith: 'Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection'\">Chasing Amy<\/a>. As it turns out, though, that wasn&#8217;t bad mental image to have going in: lots of people wandering around in everything from street clothing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4318286\/\" title=\"The inevitable Star Wars costumes, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\">full Stormtrooper regalia<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3\/4318286_c0ca0279e7_w.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"The inevitable Star Wars costumes, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>, lots of booths with various merchandise and wares for sale, and lots of authors and artists available to meet.<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t have any particular agenda or people I wanted to see &#8212; to be honest, I only recognized a select few of the names I saw on the placards on each booth &#8212; I just spent a couple hours wandering around the show floor, seeing what there was to see, and doing a lot of peoplewatching.<\/p>\n<p>A few random highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4318591\/\" title=\"Insanely Twisted Rabbits by Michael Gagn&#195;&#169;, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4\/4318591_278fd61259_w.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Insanely Twisted Rabbits by Michael Gagn&#195;&#169;, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/>Michael Gagn&eacute;&#8217;s Insanely Twisted Rabbits<\/a>: Hilarious drawings of rabbits viewed through either a seriously twisted imagination or a lot of illegal pharmaceuticals. Or both. When it comes to rabbits with big, sharp, nasty, pointy teeth, I&#8217;m afraid that Monty Python has nothing on these bunnies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4318446\/\" title=\"Book binding and sculpture by Catalyst Studios, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3\/4318446_84ad289391_w.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Book binding and sculpture by Catalyst Studios, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/>Catalyst Studios&#8217; masks and book bindings<\/a>: Some absolutely incredible work in these. Books that had been re-bound with skulls and faces emerging from their covers (some of which were actual books with new covers, others were blank notebooks suitable for journaling or sketching), masks that strongly reminded me of the ballroom scene in Labyrinth, and lots of smaller sculpture work. Beautiful stuff.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>While I was wandering around Bumbershoot last year, I ran into a girl who got a good laugh out of my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/would_you_buy_t.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Would you buy this shirt?\">I&#8217;m just here to get laid<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/michaelhanscom\" title=\"CafePress: Michael Hanscom's Useless Swag\">messenger bag<\/a>. She ran into me again today and recognized me, and we ended up chatting for a few minutes. I gave her my e-mail and website address so that she could track down the right page and order a book or shirt for herself. I <em>knew<\/em> there had to be a few more people out there that thought it was funny!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4318005\/\" title=\"Kilt fans, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4\/4318005_1fe21fdee2_w.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Kilt fans, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> As I was walking along at one point, I noticed a girl talking with her friends shooting a look in my direction. Suddenly, all three of her friends suddenly swiveled around to look in my direction, and I cracked up. As I figured, they&#8217;d noticed and were admiring my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilikilts.com\/\" title=\"Utilikilts\">Utilikilt<\/a>. We chatted for a few minutes, then they took a picture of me and I took one of them. So, somewhere out there on some guy&#8217;s digital camera is a shot of me from today &#8212; if by any random chance he happens to see this, I&#8217;d love a copy of the shot!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/4317942\/\" title=\"Jhonen Vasquez, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4\/4317942_f8469dc8fb_w.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Jhonen Vasquez, Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> From what I could see, the biggest draw to this year&#8217;s ComiCon was the chance to get an autograph from Jhonen Vasquez, creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0943151163\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Jhonen Vasquez: 'Johnny The Homicidal Maniac : Director's Cut'\">Johnny the Homicidal Maniac<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0001LJBTE\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Steve Ressel: 'Invader ZIM - Doom Doom Doom (Vol. 1)'\">Invader Zim<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t bother taking the time to stand in line, but I did get to get a quick shot of him between a few fans as he was signing merchandise. Turns out he looked more or less exactly as you&#8217;d expect he would from his work &mdash; which in an odd way, was a minor bummer. I was kind of hoping he&#8217;d be some pudgy, poorly shaven, badly dressed forty-something white guy that looked more like a redneck or a trucker. Just because in my world, that would be really funny.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, not a bad way to spend the morning. As usual, there&#8217;s a few more shots from the day in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/108757\/\" title=\"Flickr: Emerald City ComiCon, Seattle, WA\">Flickr photoset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%2526albumTerm=Tales From Another World%2526songTerm=Edge of Wisdom, The (2002)%26partnerId%3D30\">Edge of Wisdom, The (2002)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%26partnerId%3D30\">Beborn Beton<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeborn Beton%2526albumTerm=Tales From Another World%26partnerId%3D30\">Tales From Another World<\/a><\/em> (1993, 4:21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not funny &mdash; I&#8217;m freakishly obsessed!&#8217; I burst out laughing when I heard this (thoroughly embarrassing the girl who&#8217;d said it, I think), but it seemed as oddly appropriate as it was amusing while I wandered around the Emerald City ComiCon this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2043],"tags":[2688,2687,2695,2692,13,2689,27],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-personal","tag-eccc","tag-emerald-city-comicon","tag-invader-zim","tag-jhonen-vasquez","tag-life","tag-michael-gagne","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}