I'm not afraid to say I could use a little help with this. At the Manitoba Comic Con a few weeks ago, I learned a few important things:

1. If you wear a kilt to a Comic Con, people will compliment you on your costume for some reason
2. Lar's cool with signing stuff
3. Offering Lar five bucks for a copy of Bra Man aggravates him
3. Don't stare at Transvestite Supergirl.
4. A couple of pints makes dealing with crowds a lot easier
5. If your significant other is cool with letting you go alone, make sure to pick up something shiny for him/her
6. Don't make eye contact in Artist's Alley.

I know there's more to learn...anybody have any tips? Like on how to walk through the special guest area without getting the impression that you've wandered into a gauntlet of panhandlers?

Being heavily innebrated is completely cool, so long as you are a happy/argumentative drunk, but not an angry/sad/pass-out drunk.

I wasn't aware of any etiquette when I attended GenCON. Well, other than "Be nice, have fun!"

Or I'm just a boor.


Feed me.Feed me.Feed me.

... Why shouldn't we make eye contact in Artist's Alley?

Because the artists will steal your soul if you do.

O= Nooes!

... Wait, my soul's on loan anyway.

most people on this forum don't have a sould, Lisa sees to that.

Also, one thing to always remember is that being dressed up as an obscure charcter automatically entittles you to snobbishly treating anyone who doesn't recognize you like a looser-jerk from a third world country.

I'd imagine you'd get a lot of offers to be drawn.

Lisa has no claim to mine. Those are some good rules, I would add that starting disputes between fans of different series would be funny and entertaining but most likely have you removed from the event.

ask random people whether Kirk or Picard was the best captain, and watch them implode.

not really, any level headed Trek fan would know that Kirk has superior skills for small skirmishes on away missions, Picard is the superior strategist and and intellectual.

You assholes missed the biggest rule of all, if you break it you deserve to be strung up upside-down by your toes and stabbed unmercifully by dirty hobos with broken bottles that are tainted with AIDS: Shower and wear deodorant, you smell bad.

wait, are the bottles or the hobos tainted with AIDS? or both?

also, yes, please don't stink up the joint anymore, I swear my nostrils actually burned from the acids in the air last time I went to a con.

Both, and the bottles have bees in them. The bees have been rolled in cyanide and given alcohol the night before, so they're pissed, hung over, and deadly.

heh, that reminds me of a line from the simpsons

"... do whatever you want! Unleash the dogs, or the bees! Or the dogs that have bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you, I DON'T CARE!!!"

they will never listen

the deodorent burns them you see


walk around with a can of the lysol spray and just randomly start spraying stinky people




you might want to bring a few cans

Oh god yes, please wear some fucking deodorant! Make an acquaintance with some nice-smelling soap!

I thought Sohmer and Lar were kidding when they did that panel in LICD about the "smell of ass" at a 'con. I was wrong.

The worst part is that the smell it can actually get in your clothes and follow you even after you leave...

Ugghh! Note to self, bring a lot of febreeze if I ever go to a con and spray it on stinky people. I'll just pretend I'm setting people on fire with good smelling chemicals.

A fun one is to up to furries or other loonies dressed up as an animal and ask them what pokemon they are.

Alternatively, make a poke ball out of styrofoam and throw it at them.

I like frustrating those who dress up as characters I recognize. We always end up laughing in the end. And you'd know if I was within 100 miles of you, you'd feel the weight of my randomness.

I just wish that some people dress appropriately for their size. I know some really really attractive ladies in plus sizes but that is because they buy clothing not from baby gap. Go to Vegas and see how bad it can get. I remember seeing a picture of some rather heavy set women dressed up as a more or less slutty half naked version of the Sailor Scouts. I was not impressed.

I know a rather attractive girl who went as Pyramid Head to one con, apparently people yelled at her because Pyramid is a guy and only a guy but she shut them up by stabbing one with her cardboard sword and telling the other that Pyramid Head is a manifestation and therefore has no gender. Advice: Don't piss off people with swords and never attempt to out fangirl/boy someone at a con, you will always lose eventually.

You know people can be the biggest canon-nazis they want to be but in the end if someone is having fun and not actually being a bother to sane people who cares? Anyone see that picture of HellGirl? That is one hell of a good job even if Hellboy is a guy and so very far from sexy.

If I could only find a picture of the girl who went as Sand Seref at the last con here...

*drools*

Oh yeah.

Back on topic. Now you get my rant.

Wash, for the love of god wash. Wear costumes appropriate to body type, if i have to see another f@#ing 400 pound wonderwoman i will tear my eyes out to prevent the pain. Deodorant, DEODORANT, something to disguise the ugly smell you give off when your sweating at the thought of coming within half a mile of everything you've spent your life idolising. If your going to dress up, make a decent effort, you may think its awesome, but toothpaste and some green hair dye and red lipstick does NOT make you the joker. Stay in character, or at least ASSUME a character! Look where your going, LOOK WHERE YOUR GOING, i might say it again just to make sure you heard me! Buy reasonable things, support your artists but dont buy their £50 sketches, they arent going to be worth anything, and you wont give a crap in 4 years. Dont stare at odd people in costumes, you are only granting their wish of attention. Pretty girls at conventions MAY be geeks, but they dont want you, or your pants, or whats in them. Latex is for the bedroom. Whips are for the bedroom. DO NOT BRING A SWORD, it may be awesome and shiney, but you WILL get arrested. Do not BUY a sword, it may be awesome and shiney, but the delivery charge is going to be astronomical, and or, you will have to carry it home and YOU WILL GET ARRESTED. No more people are allowed to dress up as link, its forbidden. Anyone wearing the minish cap shall be exterminated. Bring more than 1 set of clothes, you WILL get hot and sweaty, and you probably wont be wearing deodorant. PLEASE remember to shower. PLEASE. Sensible footwear is a must. If your going to eat your own packed lunch DO NOT INCLUDE pickles in the mix. Brush your teeth, if you smell great and your breath is noxious gas, then guess what, you wont be popular. Buy SOMETHING, it doesnt matter what, buy SOMETHING otherwise why bother going!?

*grumble grumble* Tshirts arent worth it *grumble grumble*

Swords and other weapons are not too bad if I repeat if they are fake, tied in, or in a case that a fanboy would never break.

Heh....Jabba, you just explained why it's not good to stare at Tranny Supergirl at the Winnipeg ComicCon....TS had a mangunt....