The feet of R2-D2 and Chris James, member of the R2-D2 Builders Club and host of the club-sponsored panel at WonderCon 2008, San Francisco. Seth Rosenblatt (c) 2008.
The first time I went to WonderCon was 15 years ago. Until this year, it was also the last time I went. These pop-culture related conventions are, perhaps, easy to dismiss as being “geeky” until you realize that everybody has their own little “geeks.” We could also call them fetishes – is there really any substantive difference between wearing a prosthetic Klingon forehead over your real head and wearing a bright orange hunting cap at an indoor gun show?
There’s very little difference in my head between a gun enthusiast going to a gun show, a car fanatic going to a classic car show, a martial artist going to a weekend-long seminar, or my dad shlepping the family to Montana to trace General George Armstrong Custer’s last march.
Except, perhaps, I have the common sense to not drag my folks to a comic book show. Read more
