By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
So this past weekend I took a trip over to Crystal City Virginia to hold another Evangelion panel at Katsucon. Please note that the Evangelion panel I held at Katsucon two years ago was my first, and one that set me on my current path. I was excited to return to where much of my fan enthusiast career originated. Unfortunately, I was not expecting the convention to be a completely mismanaged nightmare in every single aspect. Hardly anthing went well over the course of the weekend, it was spread across two hotels, during frigid whether, and coincidentally, both hotels were under construction. There were all manners of cancellations, confusions, double bookings, delays, and technical difficulties. In short, it was as the title of this post would indicate, a sucky time for all. I was one of the unfortunate individuals who was uninformed, and when time came to host my panel, I was left without the proper room, a few people managed to find me, but that was most likely because my friend Charles (bless his heart) littered the hallway with signs that explained where the Evangelion Panel was. Not to mention that he periodically went out in the hallway and yelled “EVANGELION PANEL IS IN HERE!!!”. The panel drew perhaps 8-10 people, which is sad coming off of a panel with perhaps 200 at Otakon, and even more than that at the first Katsucon which was early Sunday morning during a snow emergency. In all, it was a weekend poorly spent, and oddly enough, fitting for the fact that it was my 13th convention. Perhaps unlucky numbers do have some significance.
To end this, I’d like to comment that I’ve been doing a hell of a lot of book scanning, and I’m trying to put together a very nice book guide for all the Evangelion collectors out there. I figured I would put my collection to good use and give people some recommendations about which artbooks they would be satisfied in purchasing. So far, the response has been good, please take some time to take a look at the books section. I’ll be adding more to it periodically.