Trip Recap: Wizard World Chicago

So Thursday evening, Jenna and I headed over to WW:Chicago for their Preview Night (which is from 4pm - 7pm). Jenna was volunteering for the CBLDF, so while she was doing that, I just wandered around the show and caught up with various people.

Post-show, there was a big DC dinner which the two of us were invited to (Jenna used to work at DC, which is where I met her). We went to Bob Chinn's Crabhouse which had some great seafood, including some of the best coconut shrimp I'd ever had.

Afterwards, we headed back to the Hyatt, where I was staying with Chris Burnham. Jenna took off, that was the last I saw of her as she had more trip stuff to take care of. The Hyatt bar was where pretty much every night was spent drinking and chatting. I got to bed pretty late that first night, like 3am.

Friday, I didn't get to the show until noon, but I pretty much just scoped out the show, talked with some dealers and guests, caught up with friends, the usual. There's a theater only three blocks from the show, so after closing Chris and I went and saw Wanted which was actually really good. Then it was back to the convention center for the Warren Ellis Q&A. Picture by Chris:



It was fun, Warren read from his book and then answered all kinds of crazy questions, plus did his Alan Moore impression and generally was quite entertaining. The evening ended at the Hyatt bar.

Saturday was more of the same, this time my only obligation was for the Devil's Due panel announcing the projects I was working on and a bunch of other upcoming DD projects.

The rest of the day was like Friday & Sunday, it's hard not to turn these con reports in to a name-drop fest, I talked to a lot of people, met some cool guys and gals and
just generally had a lot of fun.

Post show, had dinner, saw Wall-E (so good!) and then retired to the bar.

Sunday, nothing to report, just closed out the show, then had some drinks with Adi. I got to spend a lot of time with Adi over the weekend, which was great, at shows we never seem to have time to chat and with him living in England, we definitely don't chat as often as I'd like.

After drinks, we headed out to Giordano's for dinner (deep dish pizza place, though I ended up having pasta), then back to the bar for a while. Our flight wasn't until 10:40pm, and long story short, it didn't take off until 1am. According to Chris, I was annoyingly nonplussed by the whole event while he was quite agitated by the whole situation. Granted it sucked, but we did eventually get home (not until 3am local time), but we did get home, so it all worked out.

The end.