It’s the Wednesday after Dragon Con. The hotel lobbies are empty and quiet, the food courts aren’t running at full speed in order to fuel 70,000 hungry nerds, my friends have all dispersed back to their homes which are scattered all across the country, and I’m not wearing a costume. Dragon Con 2015 is officially over and […]
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Dragon Con Primer
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Dragon Con is just around the corner, and we know the excitement (and last-minute costuming panic) is setting in. We’ve got quite a few helpful articles in our archive relating to Con, so we’ve pulled them all together for you here. Welcome to the Avenging Force Dragon Con […]
Top Five Best (and Top Five Worst) Things About Dragon Con 2014
Welcome to Five by Friday! Join us in the comments or on your own blog–we’ve even provided a graphic for you, which you can either save to your own space or link from tinypic using the HTML code below. Just remove the asterisks, and you’re all set! This week’s Five by Friday takes a look back at […]
Ways to Kill Time in Dragon Con Panel Lines
We’ve all been there at one time or another: there’s a panel we just have to see covering the coolest, most popular recent pop culture behemoth (my guesses for this year’s longest lines: anything to do with Guardians of the Galaxy or Arrow). These panels always draw the biggest crowds to the biggest ballrooms, which means you have to […]
Places to eat at Dragon Con
Dragon Con is only two days away (flails excitedly) and you’re probably scrambling to pack, make last-minute costume adjustments, and getting ready to hit the road. You’ve put so much thought into getting there on time with costumes intact that you probably haven’t even stopped to think about what you’re going to eat this weekend. But, I […]
Things to know for Dragon Con
For those of us that have been going for years, Dragon Con feels like a second home, and we’ve all gotten used to how it works. But if you’re coming for the first time, you’re likely to get overwhelmed before you even get there. How are you going to prepare? What kind of amenities are […]
Con is Coming, Con is Coming!
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of when Teija and I started attending Dragon Con. (Excuse me, but where did all of that time go? Did we enter some sort of wormhole without my knowledge?) That first year, we didn’t really know what we were getting into. We just showed up on Friday afternoon, got our […]