The Comic con Experience

By J.D

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So for at least 6 ½ years, I have gone to Comic Con. And it’s amazing! Comic Con, according to google, is an event where comic fans, creators and exhibitors go to show off their art or have fun. But it’s not just comics, it’s anything pop culture related (including but not limited to: anime, music, television/movies, books, art and cosplay). 

Comic Con is also well known because of the comics that were around in the mid 20th century, such as: Marvel, DC, and Archie Comics. Since then, Comic Con is enjoyed by anime fans, Star Trek & Star Wars fans, and different pop cultures, as I stated before. But the last two Comic Cons, I haven’t been able to go because things have been crazy lately around the world. 

Motor City Comic Con (or MC3), is a comic convention held in my home state. It is the largest in the state (over 50,000 attendees) and ranks #8 in the United States Comic Conventions. Now every year there's different celebrities (some have been attending Comic-Con for years), different vendors, crafters and exhibitors. But the atmosphere or the location doesn't change. 

But this year, I went and here's a quick recap.

My dad and I went there. The place was packed with lots of people in costumes and some were dressed in normal clothes. I was wearing leggings with a Sons Of Anarchy t-shirt that I had gotten the night before. My dad wore khaki shorts with a blue polo shirt. My guess is that there were over 10,000 people waiting in line. We waited in line for about an hour, chatting with this random guy until they let us in. We walked around a lot, probably walked around the whole perimeter a couple of times. 

When we first walked around, I saw a booth (I think it was face-painting/body art?) but then when I told my Dad about it and we walked around the second time, I couldn’t find it and I found the next big thing: a film school! The film school is a small school that started around the 1990s. Which is near this old headquarters for this semi-forgotten store chain.

Film school is what I wanted to do outside of high school. What is the reason why I, J.D., wanted to do film school? Is because of the fact that I wasn’t too sure what would be a good occupation, so here’s some other reasons/a backstory why I wanted to be someone in the film/entertainment history: 

For a few years, I have been struggling with what I’m going to do when I’m an adult and I remembered that when I was a young kid, I dreamed of being the next Carrie Fisher or the next George Lucas or Steven Speilberg. 

When I was 14, however, I wanted to be like Gerard Way, but kept film school/acting in the back of my mind because I like acting and I’ve wanted to direct movies since I was a kid. And in case the whole rockstar thing fell through the cracks (which it kind of did). The film school does have some famous alumni, a few crew members worked on Captain Marvel, which is cool. I did get to see celebrities like William Shatner or Danny Trejo, but both of their lines were packed, probably to the doors of the convention (actually, that's not true. I'm just exaggerating but it was really long). The celebrity I saw is a well known guy in the Scooby Doo movies, he lost his dad when he was a baby and played Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars. 

Can you guess it now?

If you can't, that's okay. Because his name is Freddie Prinze Jr. Now Freddie Prinze is a very hot celebrity. He is a very nice guy and actually cares for fans unlike some people we shall not name. I just took a photo with Freddie and I went on my merry way. Originally, I was going to get an autograph with him but since his line was super long for photos, he wouldn’t be signing autographs at his booth until 3. So after that my dad and I went home. It was pretty cool seeing all the celebrities and learning about the film schools and stuff. 

Comic Con is a very fun experience where you can meet people of different fandoms and see different things and learn something new. No matter your age, Comic Con is amazing and should be checked out when it is back in town.