Moving Along

An Editor's Letter by Madeline

OBTAINING PASSES TO NEW YORK Comic Con seems to include more drama every year. Am I fan verified? Am I ready to sign on to wait in the digital sales queue? How's our wi-fi? The stool you were sitting on just broke? It's a dramedy. The times I've considered having all five of us at NYCC is in a fantasy scenario where we have a booth with couches people can sit down on and charge their phones in exchange for being interviewed by my kids. In reality, when passes are only available as Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, we assume only one kid at a time is attending and no one is skipping school to be there. That means someone needs to be picking kids up from school and then home with whoever is not attending. The way we chose who was going in 2018 was similar to how we chose who was going in 2017—Luis doesn't like crowds and I take better pictures, so I would go on the weekends. I seemed to be working a lot harder to keep shooting video and stills, which might have been motivated by the fact Luis wasn't going to be at NYCC for very long at all.

Going back to this being more dramatic than comedic, we started looking for a new apartment the week before Comic Con. Our landlord said he planned to sell the house quickly, so we needed to start shopping for an Oct. 1 move in date. I went on more than a dozen showings while trying to pack and deal with school stuff. We needed to find a place, file paperwork, throw out so much stuff, and move everything else— while Luis was producing Stylemaker and Red Plaid events.

Boom helps move stuff into storage Sept. 29

Madeline Vega

There was so much to do, but we can't cover the con if we didn't go... So away I went to do whatever my kids wanted.

While we watched videos on July 12, 2020, Kal sighed. More videos of being in line and not of him playing yet.

"Yeah, dude," I said. "That’s how long we were in line. I stood in line all this time and then I didn’t even get to play the game!"

“I never thought of it like that," he said. "Do you understand that? I just get to make videos and magazines about you guys doing the stuff.”

They actually all were helpful with commentary to help create this issue about their trips to New York Comic Con. (Side note: I saw "(Madeline)." in a proof and didn't realize I hit return in between "Con" and the period before adding my name. I will not be adding a new pdf because it took four hours to make 68 individual pdfs to combine as the one I uploaded to Issuu. I should probably get a new computer...)