I remember thinking during the livestream that I can honestly understand Christopher’s “snobbery” where conventions are concerned.
As I’ve been to multiple small cons, and like.
The creators there would end up in panels where there’s an audience of about 15-20 people ish? So very close-quarters discussions.
Then on top, the average creator at those cons likely has had their speaking fees and travel expenses covered by the con as they’re often the whole factor that draws people to that con in the first place.
But in Christopher’s case, he’s both an introvert and is in situations where he likely has to foot his own expenses. So him wanting to go to a con that’s both more impersonal/formal and where he can move lots of product somehow, makes perfect sense to me.
Kinda sucks for me, admittedly, as I’m also an introvert and thus prefer smaller cons as the idea of ever going to a con that has more than half the population of my entire county I currently live in is a little overwhelming an idea, but I can still understand it.
I do believe the intro to this EN came after a solid 20 minutes of inane banter. We really do get a lot of extra nonsense on the Patreon! XD
PiRAte variant when?
Imagine having Disparation at GenCon… :V
For those not subscribed to the Patreon, there were several comments in chat at this point about the length of that mouth-noise faux=Spanish musical introduction to El Nate’s letter. XD The fact that El Nate just lets them do their thing and never once comments on it amazes me. He must have an iron will.
Isn’t Hul sealed in Universe One?
“Girl Darkstrife”, for reference, was a callback to a conversation that started before the recording when someone referred to Luigi as “Green Mario”.
Kismet as their version of the Joker is, imo, one of the most interesting answers they’ve ever given. Interested to see other people’s reactions.
I love Adam’s little, “That’s me” and Christopher’s, “Trust me, I was at GenCon.”
I also love writing letters and forgetting what I wrote about, this was a fun surprise.
I don’t love “Caiman Writer Axel” though D:
A Letters Page celebrity, the best kind of celebrity!
Hippo deck confirmed!
Wow, Adam and Christopher could have stopped 9/11 from happening in another universe, but they did nothing. D:
“It’s morbin’ time” jokes will NEVER be not funny.
It’s been a hot minute, but my memory is that the situation is as follows:
Hul is an entire universe which is also a Singular Entity that devours universes and makes them part of Hul.
xxtz’Hulissh is sort of Hul, but is also a piece of Hul that has been placed in our universe prior to the sealing.
Anything that xxtz’Hulissh devours becomes part of Hul. The particular nature of Hul and xxtz’Hulissh means that this is a special one-way portal that can punch its way out of the sandwich bag. Hul couldn’t send a new monstrosity into Universe One, but xxtz’Hulissh can still devour it from within.
Also, a minor pair of “Um, Actually” moments for discussions of popular villains…
While it’s a common misconception that the Joker started existence as a goofy prankster (I think in part due to Grant Morrison playing on that in comics), this isn’t the case. Joker was introduced as a serial killer and thief with a clown motif, and spent his first couple years that way. Then he spent twelve years wobbling between “mass murderer” and “goofy prankster” before becoming fully goofy post-Comics Code. He stayed that way for about twenty years, then returned to his initial portrayal in the 70s and has stayed that way ever since. In broad terms, his goofy period was relatively short!
Double corrections for Green Goblin! The first minor one is that Norman Osborn was dead for 24 years, not 35 years. Not a big correction, but worth noting.
The larger correction is that the year Norman died, his son Harry immediately picked up the mantle of the Green Goblin, thereby keeping Norman’s story alive in the minds of comics readers. Harry remained the Green Goblin for twenty years before dying in 1994; a couple years after his death, another major storyline dealt with an evil AI he had built that was trying to turn his son into the Green Goblin, and the year after that, Norman came back to life.
So while it’s technically true that Norman was gone for twenty-four years, the Green Goblin never vanished, and the second Green Goblin was directly tied into the first. I imagine that this is, in a big way, what happened with Voss, too: while technically the Grand Warlord went away for decades, we know that this led into several more storylines about would-be replacements, Censor seeking revenge, and so on.
After listening to the episode to refresh my memory some more:
Honestly the explanation of blorbo just makes it worse somehow since it describes things we already have perfectly good words for as Christopher pointed out. X3 I’ve noticed it’s become a thing in general for people to create trends out of things that already exist and are/should be normal, and it’s a little eye-rolling I admit. </oldwomanyellingatcloud>
Also regards the Joker thing, my mind made me wonder of Glamour actually is also a decent fit. Miss Information also sometimes give me similar vibes.
Interested to see other people’s reactions.