posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 09:26 AM (#42462)
You gotta watch out for those banner stealers.
How many henchmen did he eliminate before you had to take matters into your own hands?
By the end of the day Saturday, I had sold all of my copies of the How To Make Webcomics as well as all the copies of Evil Inc Annual Report Vol. 1 and almost all the copies of Evil Inc Annual Report Vol. 2 and Evil Inc Annual Report Vol. 3.
Luckily, my wife had actually formed a plan for exactly that eventuality. She did a little research and found out that you can ship packages via Greyhound. I gotta give Greyhound its proper credit. I always sneered at the thought of taking a bus to an event -- preferring the train or a car for local events. But Greyhound was amazingly easy, very clean and comfortable, and -- get this -- ludicrously cheap.My trip to New York cost me about $21 -- round trip. I couldn't get there by train one way for that. And they made the trip in about an hour-and-a-half both times.
Plus, when I called my wife and told her about the sell-outs, she told me that she could ship me more books via Greyhound. She packaged a bunch of HTMW books and a bunch of Vol. 2 books I had left over, and she dropped them off at the Greyhound station in Philly at 7 p.m.At 9:30 p.m., I walked over to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and picked the box up. Absolutely no problems whatsoever.
The thirty-pound box cost $20 to ship. Do you know how badly FedEx or UPS would have stung me for that?
Greyhound was a key reason at that NYCC was such a great convention for me.
And here's another reason. I met a tremendous selection of cool Evil Inc readers. You guys are the main reason I look forward to conventions the way kids look forward to Christmas! We talked comics, traded gossip, and just generally enjoyed the convention together. I can't thank you all enough for coming out.
All except for this guy. ---->He tried to steal my banner. I had to throw down with a little Kung Fu. Lessons were learned...