Katsucon '08

Got back from Katsucon '08 early Sunday. I got there Thursday and got to play a lot of Smash Bros. Brawl in the game room, since my friend Shawn brought the game to the con. He let them borrow it during the day while we manned his table, but at night we got to play a whole lot of it. Thursday night we stayed at this little hotel across from the Chinese Embassy, which of course led to many jokes.

Friday mostly hung out at Shawn's table, but also bought a bunch of the Sanctuary books I found in the dealer's room. Also went to a panel, which was the late night at Katsucon panel hosted by Rym and Scott over at GeekNights. It was definitely a very awesome panel, and was worth stopping playing Brawl to go see. They had Greg Ayers and Steve Bennett as guests, and both were great to listen to, and hilarious.

Saturday was more booth sitting, got an awesome Lupin the 3rd Jigan figure, and also picked up volume 2 of the Lucky Star manga, Japanese version. I'm figuring I'm going to try translating it in order to learn to read some Japanese finally. I figure its a smart way to go about it, but it seems that I'm going to need a Japanese to English dictionary or something since online versions don't seem to be useful enough. The tricky part I've discovered so far is picking out the words, since unlike english they aren't spaced, and also Kanji seem like they are going to kill me since there are so many.

I also went to another GeekNights' panel, this one was Anime You Should See, which was interesting. It was a lot like what it would have been like on the podcast normally, except with an audience. I'm not sure there is all that much I can really say about it except that it was good.

Played some more Smash Bros. Brawl that night, but this time it was with some more webcomic people like Jaime and Rob of Erfworld, David of Snafu Comics (who was also staying with us,) and Chris Herms who does a comic on Snafu I think and is now also drawing Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic. We made him play with Sonic one round for obvious reasons. I'll probably talk more about Brawl on 1GO whenever I get around to writing a post for it.

I took the Black Hat book with me, but only sold one copy of it. Which is better then selling none, but I realize now it may not have been the audience for it yet at a con.