Unfortunately, I have to agree with everything Ryan said. Since the show changed hands years ago there’s been fewer and fewer comics and this year saw the smallest amount yet. Regardless, I had a good time mostly thanks to the company I keep.
The floor was filled with table after table of utter crap. Hundreds of bad prints of bad drawings, bad prints of bad drawings on reflective plastic or metal, toy swords, incomprehensible stuff, tchotkes and impulse buy crap, crap, crap. Plus overzealous dealers of crap. Avoiding eye contact was a necessity to avoid a sales pitch. I honestly don't understand how these folks make money given the expenses of setting up, but I guess somebody is buying it.
I did manage to pick up a few things like some nice WWBN upgrades: