Some of you may have noted the distinct lack of… well, us over the weekend. That’s because we were off in Arlington attending Wizard World Texas. We gloried in the geekdom, basked in the nerdy, and had an all around great time. I’ll give you a couple of seconds to stop being jealous.
For those of you who haven’t had the fortune of attending, Wizard World is one of the world’s largest Comic Conventions to make a stop in Texas. And as an added bonus, Fear Fest threw in their lot with Wizard to make it an even larger event. So we were able to entertain our inner geeks with comics and art and then scare the crap out of the little bastards with some horror fare. Where I come from, we call that a “twofer”.
On hand for the Fear Fest portion was Danny Trejo and Corey Feldman. I had hoped for a knock down, drag out fight between the two of them but alas, it was not to be… This time. I considered telling Mr. Trejo that Mr. Feldman had called him a Mexi-CAN’T but I thought it might come back on me somehow and then I’d be beat up by both of them and then they’d go have milkshakes together. It was the camaraderie over the frosty beverages I feared most, only in that I would not be invited.
We made it up to the show early on Friday and scheduled our interviews for Saturday, taking the rest of the day to play fan boys and make our way around the show, fawn over our faves, and make some new friends. Through out this coming week, we’ll be posting up the interviews and reviews from Saturday and follow up with some friends we made at last year’s Wizard World.
And of course, the Reckon Crew couldn’t just be content with showing up, we had to bring the booze and the chaos to full bear when Friday night rolled around. We hooked up with “Darth” Terry Parr and his lovely lady Amber Alert, who also happens to be one of our Gamettes. Yes, that’s a shameless plug. Pizza and beer were the order of the night and the Reckon Crew downed both in large quantities.
Saturday night was the “Heroes 4 Heroes” charity event with several of the attending artists lending their impressive talents to what was a very successful night for the charity… and there was, of course, more drinking on our part.
Sunday morning saw us packing up at five a.m. to make the trip back to our respective homes. Weary, bleary eyed, and slightly hungover, we left Arlington in the wee hours, already plotting our heroic invasion of next year’s Wizard World.
Oh, yes… We will be back.
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