2026 WNC Comic- Spring Edition or Finding Happiness Despite the Sad

 Hello Nerdy Friends,

This past Saturday was the WNC Comic Con Spring Edition. This is the first con of the year.

The Journey To: 

It was an early start. I was really groggy and still tired, a tiredness that hung over me all day. Fangirl and the Captain came and collected me. The day started with a bit of a mood killer. It was nothing world ending, but it was a bit depressing. So had to bring out my playlist I made for the day to try to cheer myself up. 

The Captain's skeleton Jack was my usual backseat companion while I had a breakfast of water and generic Honey Nut Cheerios. Rushed morning and maybe the thirty to hour wait I have to have before I can eat after taking my thyroid meds led to this.

The Con:

We arrived at the convention just a few minutes before it opened. So luckily not too long of a wait. 

 

The con seemed to be less populated this year and fewer people roaming in costumes. Fangirl insisted it was cause we were there so early, but we normally get there around con opening or within the first hour and there's usually people and costumes in heavy force. Plus I think I heard couple guys discussing the lack of people. It could be from the higher gas prices, I mean Fangirl and I are having to go to a nearer smaller ren faire this year cause of it. It's understandable, but it was a bit sad cause part of my fun is interacting with cosplayers.

 

 

 

But luckily there were a few costumed people there. Like this one from Predator: 

 

 

 I also met Team Rocket who were kind enough to pose for me, who were masked because of the allergies since the great pollening is upon us in WNC. 

 

As for our group:

I was of course Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

Fangirl was a Tabaxi.

The Captain didn't feel like cosplaying this time. 

 

While the people were in shorter supply there was still fun to be had with the vendors. Morgan's Comics was there, sadly Morganless cause she caught a cold from their baby. 

 

 

There was one booth ready to prepare Fresh Steamed Buns.

 

 

 

There was even this cute looks like crocheted weeping angel by Twisted Sisters. Of course there was also the anime cars.

I had some lovely vendor interactions one author described his work as contemporary fantasy like Supernatural, then he got a look at my cosplay. An artist was thrilled that I recognized the characters in his Doctor Who portraits cause apparently no one else had. 

 

 

 

Captain and I got a pic with the 501st Legion Carolina Garrison which they were happy to do as long as we weren't Rebel Sympathizers. *Whistling in my head*

 

 

With a farewell to Logan we headed out and down the street for our almost traditional Sonic meal. We weren't thew only one's with that idea the car next to us held con goers cause I saw the pink band on their wrist. 

 

Going home the little bit of good mood I had achieved gave way to melancholy again. It bites when the blues want to stay. Mental health is so fun.

 

 

The Haul:

 

 

First thing that morning Captain gave me a dragon egg with pretty dice within. Later Fangirl gifted me with this blue peeps bunny for the blue bunny army.

 

I got a White Power Ranger cord minder for my head phone I take out with me. I got a few stickers including my usual Supernatural ones. The one with the hearts with books is from Blossomlicious Boutique, that came with this cute orange bracelet as a free gift.

 

 

This con's pin I shot for Dean again and still came up empty. So I got Elvira. I feel like there's some fandom created universe she's Crowley's Cousin, and to clarify that Supernatural Crowley. If you get the play on actors I did there, your awesome.

 

 

The Conclusion: A Bit About This Week: 

 

I know this seems like such a downer of a post, but it happens sometimes things in life like that. I did manage some fun despite it all. My whole week's been topsy turvy: Sunday still felt off for part of the day, Monday managed over 1,000 words on my book, Tuesday gardened but didn't feel like writing, Wednesday worked to send photos to my computer, and Thursday headed to town to pick up items we forgot for Memorial Day.

 

Today has brought it's struggles like trying to write this when I don't feel like it in between my internet constantly going out, though Bob has mostly behaved ,and I watched The Happy Hobbit videos this morning.  That's life. Ups and downs, and I try not to sugarcoat it when it's down in my posts.

 

With this I leave you till hopefully next week. May the Memorial Day weekend treat you kind.

 

*Thrifty Geek* 

 

 

WNC Comic Con 2022

 Hello Friends,

 

This past Saturday Fangirl and I went to WNC Comic Con in Fletcher, NC. This is our first year at this particular con. The Asheville Anime Regional Convention has yet to start up again, and I didn't want to go a third year without a con, so I suggested this one. There was a bit of a line to get in, but it was worth the wait cause this cute little R2 unit was roaming the floors making happy little chirping sounds:

 

There was also a Punisher themed van there:

 

Vendors

 

There were lots of great vendors with so many things I wanted to buy! One such stop was the Pop Up Wand Shop that had these gorgeous homemade wands, some had roses on the handle end. They were beautiful. Sadly I did not get a card or website information to be able to find them should I ever have extra cash to buy one of those rose wands. If I often find myself unable to purchase from vendors I take a card should I ever be able to purchase from them later on.

 

 Roxy Taylor from Auntie M's Novelties has beautiful homemade , sealed, shimmery bottles that are fandom themed. I was looking at this Ghostbuster one she had with Slimer green liquid inside. I wanted it so bad, oh if money were no object. 

I fear what would happen if we put these guys in a room together.

 

The Wishing Well had Legend of Zelda Ocarinas for sale. I've been wanting one since I saw them advertised in a Nintendo Power magazine. 

One of my favorite jewelry shops was Elder Nerd Designs she does chain mail jewelry and some look like dragon scales. She had some with the Supernatural anti-possession symbol. I also loved her Mermaid Lantern items.

Morgan's Comics Table. Sorry it's slightly blurry.

My peeps from Morgan's Comic were representing that day. They had a video game demo set up too on one end.

Artists and Authors

As with many conventions there were some great artists and authors. Dan Jaworsky had a style I liked with his imaginings of nerdy things, I also noticed the artist Adam Casey from Winston-Salem among the artists. I found Rick Lonon's I wanna say stempling art amazing, though I got the term wrong when I did complement him. Sorry! 

I talked writing and bookmarks with New York Times Best Selling Author F.T. Lukens. Her works seem interesting, I may have to look into them. She's also from right here in North Carolina.

Costumes

What's a con without costumes. Captain America and the Scarlet Witch lent their talents to the judging table:

The esteemed judges, again sorry for the blur.

 

I once more became the 11th Doctor.  I ened up kicking back with my fellow aliens:

I also kicked back with myself, hope we don't cause a paradox.

Lovely Geeky Items That Are Mine Now

So you've heard me lament about what I couldn't afford to get, bet your wondering what did you get? Well I had like twelve dollars so I had to spend wise and everything I bought fit in this tiny bag:

 

But good things come in small packages:

Save for gift items and a donation I made to the Klingon Assault Group this is my haul. Back left to right: a Castiel sticker, a Cyan Among Us sticker because that's the color I usually play in the game, a Link sticker, a Supernatural pin because I'm making up for lack of SPN stuff in my life.  I also always buy a pin from every con I've been to.  Front row is a glow in the dark cat and some dice I purchased from The Deck Box. I know what your thinking a lot of little stuff, what can I say it's the little things that make you happy. 

After Party

Not really that much of a party we just went to Cracker Barrel for a later lunch. I spent way too much time enjoying the moving lit glitter globes.  I partook of my usual meal grilled chicken tenders and two sides of mac and cheese, I'm picky with some restaurant sides. I only like them prepared a certain way, and most places make them the way I don't, Mac and Cheese is one of the few sides that people don't screw up much. 

 

It was a fun con, I loved meeting everybody. Fangirl is actually thinking of adding that to our yearly cons. So that's going to be fun and I was so excited to learn my county is getting it's own con! Sadly it's same day this year as the Pumpkin Festival, and if it keeps falling on the Pumpkin Festival we may switch to this geeky event. We'll see. 

 

I hope you guys have a good week, geek on, and God Bless.

*Thrifty Geek*