To Jerry, Kevin Conroy

So I'm going to try to do this once a day as tNerb once did. I found myself inspired by his words and found that reading the boards is one of the biggest things I enjoyed about all of this. So here's a short one about my daughters second Con.

In May me and the family piled into the car and left for the Dallas Comic Con in which once there my wife simply stated "I'm going shopping on Saturday and I'll take our daughter and Sunday I'll take our son. " Not wanting to the house hold chief off I simply agreed and on Sunday I took my daughter to her second Comic Con. Sunday being the final day I wanted to get a few things signed by George Perez as well as a commission of his.

If anyone has ever been to a Con with him his lines are usually long and slow. It's one of those things that you understand is going to happen as he does sketching for a low cost of $25 and almost everyone in line gets one. So the line is going nowhere and my daughter is losing her patience. Being at an age where she can take care of herself from strangers she asked if she could walk around a little for something to buy. Because I was able to keep an eye on her from my position I told her she could and she rushed off. Twenty minutes later she comes back with some collectible unicorn thing and a bunny with a cigarette in his mouth??? Why I have no idea but it made her happy.

So the line continues to slowly go and as most of us have gone to Cons we tend to get to know who's in line with us. Many of the gentlemen in line with me were kind of in a hurry because next to us Kevin Conroy announced he would be there for only an hour more before he packed his things up. When I heard this I had my daughter walk over to his line and got him to sign an action figure and to personalize it to her brother. She comes back happy with her new accomplishment and when the others saw this they saw opportunity.

Maybe they didn't have to get out of line. This was genius; he's using his daughter to accomplish what he normally wouldn't be able to do. So a few of them ask me to send out my little scout to do the same for each of them and after agreeing to compensate her with a unicorn toy as well I allowed it. I warned them she is an 8 year old girl and may make a mistake but to their confidence in my daughter they simply shrugged and said it will be fine. So two gentlemen hand her a total of two posters and a toy and send her on her way. She goes over and when asked for who to make it out to she shrugged and left the line and came back to us. "Whose stuff is this she asks." The one says Jerry and the other says just have him sign it. So she goes back over and after a short wait comes back triumphantly and hands them their respective stuff.

The first, with one poster looks at his and smiles. "To Jerry, Kevin Conroy". He's happy and hands her some money to go buy a toy. The second however couldn't stop laughing at either the toy or the poster. Apparently Kevin Conroy has a one item limit per visit, so she had to get back into line for each item. The first one was the toy she had signed and before coming to ask for a name, Kevin Conroy had asked her what her name was again. She told him Lani and thus the toy now stated, "To Lani Kevin Conroy." The poster since he didn't state his name also said, "To Jerry, Kevin Conroy." Laughing at what he would be sending to his friend as a gift, he hands my daughter some cash and off she went skipping all the way.

Its stories like these that make waiting in line at Cons that much more memorable.

Thanks for reading.

K

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