-- Rocco Botte from Mega64 enticing me to spin the Wheel of Mystery.



So the time was finally at hand. Comic-Con! The things i've heard seemed nothing like viewing the floor in person. I tried calling Dana to see what his agenda was... he said we'd try to set something up sometime on Friday and maybe we'd bump into each other today or something. We scoped the [as] booth again, pretty much the same as Wednesday night, except now they had a few more items such as a fountain and a suggestion box. In addition, employees and voulenteers began to pass out the postcard books which may or may not contain 1 of 5 golden tickets to the after party (or the booze cruise as Dana called it.) We grabbed them respectively and called Rebecca to see what she was up to... apparently they were already there, but looking at stuff on the opposite side of the complex. We figured we'd look around a bit and double back to the [as] booth to meet Rebecca, Chuck, and company. Then I noticed a familiar face at the [as] booth. Thom Foolery, who interned during the fall of last year, and became a production assistant shortly after the new year, was helping out with the construction of the booth. Having only chatted it up once every so often on AIM, I went over and introduced myself we talked a bit about Perfect Hair, Tom Goes to the Mayor, and a few other things. I dropped some ATC.com stuff on him and we took off for the back part of the complex.

Chuck and Rebecca getting photoed (and later interviewed) by a paper in Kansas.

The [as] Postcard Books. I have about 50 of 'em.

After getting lost amongst a sea of V for Vendetta masks and random cereal mascot Bobbleheads, we made our way to the closest piece of interest: The Mega64 booth. For those who aren't familiar with Mega64, their comedy is somewhat similar to that of The Tom Green Show (the original, not the talk show) or Jackass, except for the fact that instead of harrassing people with zany stunts... they parody classic and recent video games... while they harrass people with zany stunts. The Version 2 DVD they released at Comic-Con also intertwines these parodies with elaborate storylines. It becomes quickly apparent that for the most part, the show is greatly inspired by Mystery Science Theater 3000 (which makes it ever more better...er...er.)

Anyhoo.... we finally found the booth, inhabited by its creators Derrick, Rocco, and Shawn. The M64 crew were pimping out their Wheel of Mystery which they take with them to numerous functions (including Comic-Con) which they let passerby's spin in order to get prizes or else other random items including editing the name on your Comic-Con badge, Love Doctor (where the boys take you over to a guy who gives you love advice, Name that Tune (they hum a random song and you have to guess), I even heard they had "Game Broken" where they practically take the game down. Well, after about 2 minutes of Smaddy completely scaring the crap out of me in regards to spinning... I finally sucked it up and spun..... nada... not even Love Doctor.... damn. Smaddy got Name that Tune. Then I bought the DVD.

The Mega64 booth with Shawn Chatfield and Derrick Acosta

Smaddy, and I got lost trying to find the Mega64 booth. I stopped and asked Giant Bobblehead Franken Berry for directions.