On Sunday, the final day of the con, we hosted The Morbid World of Junji Ito, which fans of the podcast will recognize as the same panel we hosted at FanimeCon earlier this year. The panel went smoothly, though the experience was pretty distinct from Fanime, as the whole panel approach at GalaxyCon was different. There was no panelist check-in that we could tell, and even the panel rooms were in a completely different section of the McEnry Center.

The panel began at 11am, though by ten, we’d already ran through all of our set-up and troubleshooting, so the technical aspect was taken care of. Doors stayed open throughout the panel, a marked difference from both Fanime and Crunchyroll Expo’s approach, with closed doors and staff at attention by each. But as the clock struck eleven, we started the panel with longtime collaborator Houston, and the repeat panel was almost as successful as the first time we presented it. I suspect the lower attendance at this convention had more to do with us presenting a horror manga panel at what is ostensibly a Science Fiction convention, but it probably didn’t help that during our panel, both Charles Martinet and the cast of Psych ‘s panels were also going on.

The panel came to a close forty-five minutes later, and after a brief Q&A session with the audience, the three of us piled into the exhibit hall to hunt for interviews. We had managed to sneak in an interview with Starburns actor and Moral Orel  creator Dino Stamatopoulos prior to the panel, and now that we were out and free of time restraints, we essentially spent the rest of the day going from interview to interview.

I did have one break to myself, however. While Sal and Houston continued going from agent to agent looking for interviews, I spent some time in a couple of lines – the first, for Days Gone  star and The Crashtones  frontman Sam Witwer.