This year’s New York Comic Con felt a little more manageable. Last year felt like it was a convention cosplaying as scene from Soylent Green. This year was decidedly busy but not as overwhelming. You could conceivably go on to the show floor on Saturday afternoon and go from one end to the other in less than an hour without the offensive line of an NFL team escorting you. At the same time the content still seemed strong, the business in the showroom and artist alley seemed brisk, and major panels were still hard to go into. So the real question is why was this. How did the convention grow but everything seem less crowded?
New York Comic Con is something I’m always anticipating; it probably helps that NYCC staff hype the show and make announcements for months before it is really on the convention radar. This year I had a bit of anxiety mixed-in since the 2012 convention was huge and packed, I was wondering what this year would hold. Would it be more crowded? Would I be able to get to the panels I wanted? What are the limits of the Javits space?
And the ultimate question for me: would NYCC be so big that I no longer enjoyed it? That was weighing on me like never before. And maybe because I was thinking about that so much, this year’s NYCC was able to pleasantly surprise me.
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