Heroes Convention Reasons To Go #5
5. After Hours
You may not know this but when Heroes Convention closes they kick everyone out of the convention center. Yep, all those creators you’ve been waiting in line to talk with don’t actually stay in the convention center all night long. They leave and go out into the city where you might run into them at some swank hotel bar.
It’s a pretty cool part of the convention that not many people think about. Even me, with my almost infinite knowledge of the intricacies of convention life, just found out about this millinium. Here’s the deal, the convention center is located in a part of the city with a deficit of bars so everyone eventually ends up at the Westin’s bar. Giving you a nice boiling pot of comic profesionals and fans mingling amongst one another as equals. It’s up to you to figure out how to infiltrate the crowd and what your opening line will be for when you meet Eric Larson or Evan Dorkin.
You absolutely have to take advantage of this networking opportunity. At the very least it gives you something to talk about the next day at the convention. “Heh, aren’t you that guy who drank that bottle of wine and then ate some guys cigar butt” asks Josh Cotter? “Yes I am,” you reply proudly with no recollection of anything you did after the 4 margaritas you had with Brad McGinty. Ah, living the night life!
on June 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I’m looking forward to the drinking like an Irishman looks forward to St. Paddy’s Day.
on June 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
They actually changed the host hotel this year to the Hilton. So I guess that’ll be the bar o’ choice this year.
Unless that’s just what they told me so that I wouldn’t bother the other convention goers…
on June 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I’m pretty sure there isn’t a bar at that Hilton. And yes it was originally the only “Convention Hotel” but then the Westin caved and gave some good discount pricing so there are some still available there.
on June 18th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I’m already drunk. Someone get me a mike!
on June 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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