Crazy awesome weekend
This past weekend was a complete whirlwind. We performed the first episode of the Live-Action Graphic Novel at the Alamo for the 8 PM performances of Alice in Wonderland. It was a crazy scene. As you probably already know, Alice‘s opening weekend was bigger than Avatar‘s. So there were a TON of people at the theater and the staff there was working their asses off. They had accidentally set us up in the wrong theater, which was also, say, a little nutty. But it all worked out in the end. The audience seemed to really love it. And there was a celebrity at the Sunday night performance, but more on that in a moment….
STAPLE! rocked. We had so much traffic at our table that I literally couldn’t keep up. We sold a ton of books, some shirts and some posters too. Then the performance came around and it could not have gone better–for a couple of reasons. First, it was the first time that we strung more than one episode together in a single performance. I was very curious to see if the audience would stop paying attention at some point, but, no, the 30-minute performance was totally engaging. But the second reason it went great was that audience. No doubt, the ideal audience for the show, the STAPLE! crowd really went nuts for it. They laughed at every laugh line, they gasped at the cliffhangers, and a bunch of folks actually stuck around the for the Q&A after, always a good sign.
On Sunday, I was on a panel at Dragon’s Lair. The turnout was small, but there were some really talented and smart people on the panel and I learned a LOT. I feel like such an interloper in the comic-book world and I have a ton of catch-up to do. But the other folks welcomed me in and we had a really nice time chatting.
Sunday night was our final Alice performance. This turned out to be the most responsive audience of all, which was a nice way to end a completely exhausting weekend. Our celebrity audience member? Robert Rodriguez. Not so say that The Intergalactic Nemesis is like the perfect combination of Sin City and Spy Kids or anything, but I wouldn’t mind getting a meeting with Troublemaker Films. Just sayin…
Giant thanks to everyone who came out. And particular thanks to Cody at the Alamo who really did make everything right again and again, to Alison King at Dragon’s Lair who lined up the panel, and to Chris Nicholas at STAPLE! whose tireless volunteer energy is truly an inspiration.
