New York ComicCon Blog: Day 1

There's an hour and twenty minutes until they open the doors for regular goers and I'm choking on Triple Espresso gelato. There's some sort of rocky, chipping thing in here which is burning my throat on the way down.

Well.

Already things are somewhat hectic. I came with Jon Clarke. I met up with Ed Murray and Lance (who runs this show) an hour ago. I received a Staff T-Shirt. I'm not staff, per se, but I will cherish having it more than is likely healthy. Alex Grubard is coming late.

Ed Murray.

I also ran into Pat Driscoll and the Black20 folks. As I talked to Pat, I could tell that a few of his friends didn't know me and were a motherfucking hair's width away from turning on the camera and editing me down into absurdity.

Spoke with Matt Little a few minutes ago and I'm now doing two shows tonight: an early sort of run-through comedy show at 4:00 p.m. and the real, big one at 7:00. They're both on what's called the Variant Stage, and I need to actually find out where that is.

Ed just bought a burger.

Here's the last thing right now: the convention space is being shared with a much smaller showing by the City University of New York presenting a job fair. You've never seen the odd Mexican stand-off between fat people wearing Nightwing costumes and terrified college students wearing three-piece suits.

Later That Day:

Just did my first set. Small crowd, but it was alright. Sort of working the three or four people hanging out. It was fun, though. Did some older jokes I haven't done in a while. It's weird hearing “Army Strong, Army Smash” reverberate through the Javits Center, likely annoying people pushing small-press comic books.

Matt Little and Bane hosted the event and it was super effective.

I used a Batman joke I haven't used in nearly a year. How did I do? Alright, I think. Working it. Working it. Working it. Trying my best. Working it. Working it. Oh God. Working it. Working it. Help me. Working it. Working it. I miss the love of a woman inside me. Working it. Working it. Working it.

Also, I now have a performer's pass. Suck it, jackasses.

Civilization Revolutions looks and plays amazing.

It's Civilization.

I suggest you research Pottery.

Later that Night:

I’m home now. I did my last set and it went great. There were some guys from Wizard in the audience and they really enjoyed my set, which feels very, very, very relieving. For some reason, I wanted the guys from Wizard to like me a lot. But I did well and much later that night, two guys came up to me on the street and told me they enjoyed the set. Bonus!

I can’t stress enough how thankful I am to Ed Murray, Lance, and Matt Little for getting me into and giving me things to do in the show.

Ending Coming:

Here’s What I Bought:

Colon:

1 Large Super Mario Plastic Statue

1 Large Goomba Plastic Statue

1 World of Warcraft Starter Deck

1 Batman vs. Joker VS. Card Set

1 Spiderman vs. Doctor Octopus VS. Card Set

1 Magic: The Gathering Deck (my first in perhaps a decade)

1 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund T-shirt

1 Plush Red Mushroom (To Make You Grow Larger)

1 Plush Green Mushroom (To Make You Live Longer)

1 Duncan Yo-Yo

1 After School Agent Comic Book

G’night.