comic-con was totally exhausting, but also a blast!

The sheer amount of awesome Newgrounds users there was astounding. It's really humbling to be surrounded by ultra-talented people! Shout outs to everyone I met, it was great meeting all of you. I'm not even going to attempt to list everyone because I'll definitely forget someone and then they will hate me forever and vow to kill my firstborn child

I didn't hang around the booth too often, because it got pretty crowded with all of us there, and no one particularly cares about a lowly programmer like myself. I spent a lot of my time going to different panels.

Probably the coolest panel I went to were the Cartoon Voices panels. They had all kinds of crazy voice talent, like Rob Paulsen and Tom Kenny. These guys can do such a huge range of crazy voices with such ease and consistency, it's awe inspiring. And nothing beats hearing Yakko's World live, in person, sung totally from memory. :D

Another interesting panel was the Episodic Comics and Games panel. It had the guys from Telltale Games and Hothead Games, who are doing the Sam & Max and Penny-Arcade games, respectively. During the Q&A I asked them what they thought about using a web-based medium such as Flash for episodic games. Their answer was, more or less: "no, flash sucks, you can't get the same experience as you can with a native executable." -- with which I both agree and disagree. I'd be curious to hear any of your opinions on this!

I was at Otakon the week before Comic-con, so I was all conned out by the time we got back on Monday. so I'll leave you guys with this rocking plush boob I purchased from some random vendor in the exhibitor's hall. It's called a "Milk-Chan":