A week from tomorrow I’m heading to Seattle for PAX. It’s my first PAX, and also my first time in Seattle, so I’m really looking forward to it. I can’t wait to check out Fallout 3, and am hoping that Left 4 Dead is playable as well.

If you see someone walking around wearing a shirt with the image below on the front, it’s either me or a friend of mine. Feel free to come up and say hi!

I survived the trip back from Seattle. One of my bags is now missing two zippers courtesy of the fine folks at Delta. They also thought it would be neat to have that bag show up at the airport 5 hours after I did. But hey, they made it right by delivering my now damaged bag to my house at 3:45 in the fucking morning.

Unpleasantness aside…. Seattle was great, and so was PAX. There was so much to see that I only did about 25% of the things I thought I would do. It was like Las Vegas but devoted to games, and much less organized.

The top 3 games I saw, in order: Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2. All were fantastic. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was also a blast to play.

My personal favorite moment was meeting Todd Howard from Bethesda and him telling me he thought my Spider-Man t-shirt was cool. I would have rather had his Fallout 3 shirt, but oh well.

Other people I met / saw: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (buy their music, they kick ass), Major Nelson, MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, Freezepop, Morgan Webb, and Adam Sessler.

Traveling has led to my having less time this week to work on a full-fledged comic. I knew I wanted to do a series of single panel comics chronicling some of the goofy things I saw at PAX, so I decided to do 3 sketches over 3 days. Enjoy!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Now that there are more and more confirmed cases of H1N1 coming out of PAX, that is. I’m still trying to figure out if I can make the Boston PAX in Spring. I’ve never been to Boston, but I’m guessing that it’s not the greatest weather at that point in time… although it’s possibly better than what I’d have here at home. It comes down to whether or not I want to spend the money. We’ll see.