Geek Alert

I know some of my fellow Apathetics may recall some of the SF Cons we attended in our youth. For those of you still in the Houston area, there will be a local Comic / SF / Fantasy / Gaming / Pop Culture convention on May 25-27th at the George R Brown convention center called ComicPalooza. Don't let the name turn you off, the con it has grown into much more than just comic's since it's original creation.

This is a much larger con than those we went to back in the mid to late 80's, but you still have dealers rooms, artists alley's, panels, almost-'round-the-clock gaming, featured guests (actors, authors, artists, game creators) film rooms, costume contest, etc.

The madAngel and I have been going to support this new local con since it started out as a small affair at the deserted end of a local mall. It's been growing by leaps and bounds every year and last year managed ~6000 attendees. It's no DragonCon (which is a spectacular experience btw), it's no monster like ComicCon but it's a nice medium, fan owned and volunteer ran sized con.

New guests are being announced almost weekly now, but some of the guests that may be of interest to people here include:

Authors - Larry Niven, Timothy Zahn

Actors - Michael Biehn, Richard Hatch, Kevin Sorbo, Christopher Judge, George Takei, Peter Mayhew

*Steve Jackson (of CarWars fame) has been a frequent guest but haven't seen word on whether he will be there this year. Artist Larry Elmore is a frequent CP attendee as well. He sells alot of his work there (if you want to know how the long running humorous SnarfQuest (NO, NOT ELFQUEST!!) comic strip from Dragon magazine turned out, Larry sells a cheap softcover book of the whole strip in it).

For more on the Con visit their website here

So if you find yourself with some time to kill, feel free to join the myself and the madAngel at CP 2012. We generally decide to make a small "stay-cation" out of it, spending the duration of the Con at the attached Hilton Americas Hotel.