Not Leavin' On A Jet Plane

The Comics Reporter posted this article today, about how the rising cost of fuel and airfare will affect Con attendance.

I know for my own part, a perfect storm of a shortage of funds and skyrocketing travel and hotel costs have made me reshuffle my Con calendar for this summer. Unlike the last two years, I won't be doing the Geekcation Double Header of SDCC and Pennsic. Instead, if I have the money and the time (in the blessed event that I get hired somewhere), I will be attending Terminus, which is the same week as Pennsic, and Dragon*Con. (Dragon*Con is confirmed, as I have purchased both my membership and plane tickets.)

Startlingly, even airfare from New York to the two biggest air travel hubs--Chicago and Atlanta--are already shockingly over $200.

Heidi McDonald has been watching with some sadness the airfare hullabaloo, wondering if this will bring about a return to train and bus travel. It probably will.

As much as I was hoping to take the train to Chicago, it is, frustratingly, comparably priced with taking a plane, and worse--takes 20 hours instead of 2. So onto the metal bird for me.

I hope that come summer of 2009, this will all have alleviated a bit. I'm not holding my breath, though.

Help Sell Out Superman #676!

Benchilada said it best.

Short version?

Go buy Superman #676 today.



Do it for me, or if you don't like me, do it for Vito Delsante.