Michael Davis: Selling Out
I’m on the West Coast, Mike Gold, ComicMix’s Editorial Director, is on the East Coast and that’s the reason there is a good chance this piece won’t even run today.
My articles run on Tuesday so I try and get them to Mike no later than Monday morning East Coast time. Most times Mike gets them over the weekend but this one will show up to Mr. Gold after 9 p.m. Monday evening because… I’ve got nothing.
I drew a complete blank as to what to write about this week. I kept thinking something would pop into my head but nothing did. So what follows is not in any way a well thought out essay, it’s simply a rant on an industry event and the actions of those clueless individuals who, well, are just clueless.
The San Diego Comic Con sold out in two hours this year…duh.
Every year the biggest pop culture event in the world gets bigger so that should not be news to anyone, but as always people take to the net to bitch about how they could not buy tickets or the only ticket they did could get was for Sunday.
All you people, who think your inability to attend Comic Con is somehow the fault of Comic Con, grow the fuck up. A couple of hundred thousand people got tickets and as always the event sold out.
You simply lucked out. How is that Comic Con’s fault?
Duh.
The same goes for people who get tickets but can’t find a hotel room. There are only so many hotels in San Diego and once those hotels are sold out, you are assed out.
You can solve both having a ticket and getting a hotel room by simply becoming a major playa in the industry or building your own hotel.
Crazy? Bad joke? Unrealistic? Stupid thing to say?
Not as stupid as blaming Comic Con or the city of San Diego for your lack of ticket or hotel because they sold the fuck out.
WEDNESDAY: Mike Gold
THURSDAY: Dennis O’Neil
“You can solve both having a ticket and getting a hotel room by simply becoming a major playa in the industry or building your own hotel.”
This. This is my new plan. :P
Your major playa plan is well on its way to success! The hotel plan? Good luck with that and if you pull it off, I’d stay there.
However, If I can’t get a room I will go on the net and bitch!!!
Okay, I might have laughed initially at how you responded, but you made a great point. If folks want to have access to events like Comic Con, “become a major playa in the industry”…or better yet, start conventions of your own….build a quality event in your neck of the woods! It is obvious by fan response year after year that there are more than enough people who enjoy events like this, so why not address the perceived shortfalls by stepping up and making something better. Imagine if all of that energy that is wasted on getting angry was directed in this way….everyone would have an opportunity to experience awesomeness of a Con like magnitude.
Mark,
I actually feel for those who can’t get into Comic Con. What pisses me off and no one ever mentions in those attacks on Comic Con or San Diego is this, Comic Con has expanded and San Diego has build more hotels over the years but that shit takes time.
I tried to get tickets to a Rolling Stone concert once and could not. The show sold out.
I didn’t go on the net and call Mick Jagger an asshole.
Well, he’s not an asshole because you couldn’t get tickets, but…