I have the best partner in the world. When Phoenix Comicon crashed and burned in a Covid Smog she stepped up and decided we would do it on our own at home. So, we are having a in-home comicon. Each of us and our kids are responsible for designing and running panels, movie screenings, or games. We are going to make it a multi-day events complete with costumes, so we can celebrate the start of summer per tradition. I am stoked…
Kind of..
See, given the freedom to be completely and awesomely creative I find that I have nothing. It is down to stealing one of two ideas: Marble Races (Thank’s Jon Oliver!) or Screen printing tees, because getting clothing is such a huge part of what we love about comicon. Presently I am researching screen presses and marble tracks. I would enjoy both, though I think the rest of the crew would prefer the tees over the marbles.
I have a few more original ideas, but they all feel incomplete. I wanted to have a screening of the first season of Robotech running in the background. I wanted to design a new game based on characters from comics and Anime. I wanted to do either a best superhero/anime throwdown or best team up panel. Still, none of this is entirely out of the box, and that is the problem. Where is my epic creativity? Is it done. Has it fled into remission as though driven there by the medicine of daily life and bad TV? Where are all the big ideas?
Tomorrow I intend to spend more time in deep thought, and draw from up in me something epic. I have a chance to make an epic moment happen, and it feels like I should not squander it.
Some Thoughts:
- Saw a soccer team practicing outside in the nearby park. Looks like youth sports are nigh.