Back from MomoCon

This past weekend, a group of us headed down in the wee hours of the morning to Atlanta for the free, two-day convention MomoCon. Sponsored by Anime O-tekku, the anime club of the Georgia Institute of Technology, this was the con’s fifth year. It’s typically held in March at the beginning of the university’s spring break. While it was also on our spring break, it was at the end of it, making Monday morning somewhat unpleasant. Enough about that though and onto the con.

Registration was a fairly long mess at first glance, but it actually moved fairly well. One might wonder why a free con has registration. For one, liability and emergency information. From another standpoint, it gives them demographic data for marketing.

However, despite the registration maintaining a decent line flow, it was flooded Saturday. The convention, held in two buildings on the Georgia Tech campus, eventually set up a satellite registration table in the building registration wasn’t in. This table, by the way, was basically 10 feet away from the MTAC table. Great for us for getting foot traffic by the table.

What should we do?

Do we have any regular readers? Probably not regular since that would require regular content. But still, is anyone reading this post? If so, what do you want us to write?

Like our comic? Kyoji’s slowly coming alone with his comic, Pocket Rockman World, and we have more on the way from other contributors.

How about news? What did you think of the Heroes news in the last post? Do you want more geeky news coverage, or is there enough of that on the web?

We don’t have any reviews or social commentary articles up, but if we did, what kind would you most like to read? Remember, we’re a Geek/Otaku/Nerd/Gamer-oriented blog, so what in that area would you like us to sound off on?

Heroes Spin-Offs Like Tuesdays at 8

It’s of the opinion of some Heroes viewers (namely me) that the series hasn’t been quite as good as the first season and that the quality has been slipping. Instead of focusing on a large event jam packed with everyone, Heroes needs to get back to its roots of examining each individual character. What’s the best way to do that? Spin-offs of those characters, of course (via Scott King @ King Films).

In more serious Heroes news, former season 1 staffer Bryan Fuller is returning to the show. Season 1 when the series had its best writing. Fuller in particular wrote the episode “Company Man,” which told the back story of everyone’s favorite horn-rimmed-glasses character, Noah Bennet. It was one of my favorites, completely changing my opinion of the character. I’m excited to see what he’ll do (thanks, Topless Robot).

Thanksgiving Roll’d

Happy Thanksgiving from GONG and our favorite musician!

Thanks, Cartoon Network and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Future Hero Grasshoppider

With a Springing Jump comes the next manga from Red Rabbit Studios: Future Hero Grasshoppider!

It’s a story of heroism, courage, and thrilling twists in the mold of the Legendary Kamen Rider series.

Young, John Fable is kidnapped by the mysterious Zenith Adaptation Principals Corporation or ZAP and is transformed into a mutated human genetically crossed with Grasshopper DNA. Luckily, Prof. Adnois take pity on him and frees him. John is given the power to switch between his human form and that of his altered body to fight against ZAP as the Future Hero: Grasshoppider!

The first chapter of Grasshoppider will be released December 3th, so look forward to it!

GONG is ON… THE… AIR…!

Well… more like, on the web…