Holy shit, YES

[perpetual_motion]

So, um, The Husband and I may be going to Comic Con in July. For realsies!

[Squee only dogs can hear]

It all matters, pretty much, on me getting my ass out of bed super-early (for me) on Monday and getting the tickets bought. Which leads me to a question:

How do you sign up for con panels? I'm sure there's a couple I want to be at [GREEN LANTERN PANEL HOLY CRAP], but I can't quite figure out how the whole finding and paying for panels works. Is that something that doesn't come up until later? I know a couple of you have been to comic con, so let me know!

[Another squee only dogs can hear]

HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS COMIC CON.

Comments

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the tickets are on sale already? AAAAA.

WAAANTSSS

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Monday. They go on sale Monday. And you should get online.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Can we talk on Saturday or Sunday night? I will be home tomorrow night after stupid fittings, and Sunday is a sewing day and burrito fest in the evening so I'm sure we can plan a rendezvous....

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm around all day tomorrow and Sunday. I've got a crapton of homework, but I can plan around that. Tomorrow night sometime?

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

YAY, COMIC CON YAAAY! :-D

Once you've got your 4 day pass (or your day passes), there is not further registration or pay required for individual panels. (Autograph tickets are a whole other thing.)

The only thing complicated about attending panels is strategizing how to get into the popular ones, or panels happening immediately before popular panels. This is complicated because seating is first come, first served, and the con security doesn't allow standing room for fire code reasons. For a really popular panel (like Harry Potter), it's not unusual for people to camp out over night to get into a panel happening at noon the next day. Then they have to sit through all the programming before their panel, moving up in the seating with each panel change as people leave.

Of course, most panels aren't nearly that bad, especially non-movie panels. For the comic panels, you can generally get into all but the most popular ones on less than an hour's notice.

Naturally, needing to allow time to wait in line to get into a panel complicates your simultaneous-programming conflicts, too. If you want to go to panels at 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the 3 o'clock panel is super popular, chances are that's the only one you're going to make it into, unless the 4 o'clock panel is not popular at all.

Planning one's panel strategy has been compared unfavorably with planning one's college class schedule.

So you don't have to worry about signing up for paying for a panel, just about getting in once you get there! Heck the panel schedule last year was released less than two weeks before the con.

ALSO, FUCK YEAH COMIC CON! It is huge and awesome and amazing. <3

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Awesome! We're looking SOOO forward to it. Once I've got confirmation on the tickets, I'll have all kinds of news.

Now, to come up with costumes.

(Are you going this year?)

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

I am totally going this year. I am always going to Comic Con. :-D

You must do at least one Lantern costume of some color! This past Comic Con the group pic of all the colors of Lanterns was awesome. We had every color except White. And I have to semi-privately cackle, because the only two greens in the bunch were me and a Kyle. *g*

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've got last year's Halloween costume, and I'm thinking of creating a totally NEW Lantern costume for con. Not a particular character, most likely, but an awesome costume.

And I'm thinking Next Wave Elsa Bloodstone. Because then I get to carry GUNS.