Awesome Con is Awesome!

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Right on the heels of our return from Emerald City Comic-Con, Awesome-Con DC popped up.  Shamefully, we missed their inaugural year in 2013, but we weren't about to miss this year.  In a short time, Awesome-Con has already made a huge name for itself as a pop-culture convention that spills over with an energy and excitement on the floor - gathering love from all corners of the geek community: artists and crafters, cosplayers, vendors and especially activists.  At least half a dozen booths were dedicated to some of the most important issues in the geek community and the people we spoke to were friendly, passionate and informative.  In other words, Awesome. 
I wonder if I'll have to change the name of the blog now ...

 

Ani-Mia, didn't we just see you in Seattle?
http://animia.storenvy.com/

Everyone getting along!  Very un-Joss.

Rod Hannah and Leanne Hanna, the massively friendly creative team behind the
webcomic Blue Milk Special.  How we we love them so!
http://www.bluemilkspecial.com/

Huntress and Black Lantern Wonder Woman.
Somehow those smiles make them scarier, like
they know something you don't.

Everybody loves a happy ending.  Kaylee and Simon from Serenity.

A (very) Red Sonja

Arkham City Robin.  Check the guns!

Picture-perfect Rogue.

This dude looks ... shredded. Heehee.

OK, I need to research my Ninja Turtles characters ...

This explains the rain on my drive home.



Jason and I met some of the minds behind Femmes in the Fridge.
http://femmesinthefridge.com/
Check the link and get involved with this inclusive and
intelligent pack of geeks.

Back to the Blog.

Artists: Blue Milk Special

Rod Hannah (left) and Leanne Hannah are the husband and wife team behind Blue Milk Special.
If you're a Star Wars fanatic, of course you have heard of them.  Right?  ... Right?!
What is wrong with you?  Get there, right now.
What's unique to BMS is that they are a webcomic that parodies the Original Trilogy one scene at a time. 
Meaning?  You're following the movie in order, scene by scene.  And because it's been running for over three years now, there's a lot to follow.  Which also means that you can waste hours at work for weeks before moving back to Cracked.com posts.

"But I've seen every Star Wars parody there ever was," you say.  I'll admit the parodies on Family Guy and Robot Chicken (and even other places not affiliated with anyone named Seth) can leave you feeling like there's no new jokes to be made.
"It's a trap!  Get it?  Get it!?  It's a trap!"
"Yeah dude."
But you'd be wrong.  Because they've been running so long, it also means that they can do a lot with the characters.  Princess Leia is not herself so much as she is the embodiment of Carrie Fisher, which it turns out is wickedly funny.  Darth Vader is something of a Trekkie and even the most fringe characters in the Star Wars universe have been given a second life.  Whether you love Star Wars a little, a lot, or waaaay too much, there's something for you.  

Beru ... I always knew...

They do the strip and the Conventions on their own dime and still do their own original stuff and work on projects like Whatever Happened to Baron Von Shock? for Rob Zombie and Image Comics.  I'm not sure when they find time to breathe.  You can check out Leanne's work here.