Before you know it, and before you've managed to adequately deal with this smorgasbord of other issues, the con is over. You've been running around like a headless chicken with a cool t-shirt and a staggering amount of comic merchandise for two full days, and now you've got to adjust to the normal world again. A world where you can't have in-depth conversation about the narrative twists of Babylon 5 or play impromptu games of Magic: The Gathering. A world where you can't see the majority of your comics top 10 in a weekend. There's a well known comedown that strikes on the way back from a convention. All the adrenaline of walking the floor wears off, the constant excitement of being totally immersed in your fandom dissipates, and you're dumped back onto the very form of transport that delivered you to this utopia in the first place. On top of that, you've got to figure out how the hell you're meant to get all this crap back home, and whether or not this Green Lantern cookie jar will even fit in your kitchen...
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
