Comic Cons and the like have become big business. I remember hearing about the huge one in San Diego for years. That’s where the big names come and preview all the big nerd-centric movies and television series that will be released that year. I suppose there were Star Trek conventions, etc. in various cities for years, but these days it seems like there is some kind of con going on just about everywhere on every weekend of the year.

In 2014 we got one in Tulsa and I got a press pass to go. It was a little daunting but fun. I came back the following year and the year after. Each time the con got a little smaller, the celebrity names a little more b-lister. I guess Tulsa just isn’t a big enough city or something.

I got kind of tired of it, too. I like looking at the costumes people wear, and some of the doo-dads people sell are cool. The whole celebrity thing is weird, though. I have no desire to pay a lot of money to get a celebrity autograph or to snap a picture with them. The talks can be fun, but more often than not the celebrities seem kind of bored and they tell the same stories.

I’m not knocking it. If you enjoy that sort of thing then by all means enjoy it. But after a few times going myself, I’ve had enough.

And now my daughter is getting into all that. She actually loves to cosplay and wants someplace to go where she can be with like-minded people. I’ve taken her to a couple of them and we’re going to another one here in a couple of weeks. So the circle of life comes again.

Anyway, I did a little write-up on that first con I went to, and you can read it here.