Today is my last day in the office before I fly out to San Diego on Sunday. I have to leave in an hour for a wedding and tomorrow we'll be celebrating April's birthday, since I'll be away on July 23rd, her REAL birthday. April couldn't come out to Comic-Con this year because all her vacation days were spent on our honeymoon. :(
I figured for the sake of a blog post, I'd talk about some of the preparation! The Castle Crashers demo is already prepped and ready to go in San Diego. We've also shipped out the 20,000 Newgrounds flyers we'll be giving away - each featuring the artwork from the Flash Portal front page, with artist autographs on the back (re-prints, not signed in ink).
We will be introducing five new NG shirts at Comic-Con, all of which are already waiting in San Diego. We'll be bringing our remaining stock of AngryFaic shirts, as well as NG stickers, AngryFaic stickers, Pico sticker sheets and NEW Tankmen sticker sheets (see crappy scan below)!
We've also packed up two widescreen monitors that we'll be using for Castle Crashers in the Behemoth booth. Tim got a Sprint data plan for his laptop, so we'll have Newgrounds up and running on a flat panel TV in the Newgrounds booth. We won't let people browse the site, but we'll play music from the Audio Portal and play movies by request when it's convenient.
This is the first year that Newgrounds has its own booth, rather than sharing space with the Behemoth. We'll be at booth 4529, around the corner from the Behemoth and adjacent to the College University booth!
For the flight, I'm bringing a book given to me by FrostedMuffins' dad last year after Comic-Con: Smart Bomb. I've already read the first three chapters, but I'd feel like a real jerk if I hadn't read the entire book by the time I see him again. It's a great book, too! I love reading about stuff like the IGF and Cliffy B (the lead designer behind Gears of War). :)
This year is gonna be so insane I'm afraid to even try to list all the people who are showing up. Guys like Luis, The-Swain, Rog, BoMToons, Krinkels and The Super FLASH Bros... Not to mention booths for College University and Tomorrow's Nobodies!
It's gonna be a crazy year.
BatDan
You can't escape me.
You can't defy me.
You can't destroy me.
For I will be there buying your Tankman stickers or T-Shirts... MUHAHAAHAHAH.
Maybe both.
TomFulp
We may not be able to defy or destroy you, but we CAN deplete you of your monetary resources!