The Wizard World Rocks A Bit Less These Days

After happening on this analysis of the upcoming Wizard World Chicago, I started musing on our last couple visits there. We at CLP made a conscious decision to stop buying a table there last year, but we just can't stop showing up for a day to say hi to old friends and such. Here's our 2008 report, with shaky stomach-churning video; here's the 2007 report (our last year exhibiting there). Even in 2007 we saw signs of future trouble with the sudden and not-quite-believably-thoughtful presentation of rest areas in the midst of the dealers' area.

For completeness, here's 2006, 2005.

It's a weird show, because it always ends up costing us a lot for a show we drive to. We've done other cons for less; in fact, our new plan is to start getting out to a lot more cons. We're doing the Mini-Megacon in Orlando Aug 22-23, by the way. More details very soon!