I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So I am back at home after being in San Diego for the 2003 San Diego Comic-Con. So today's podcast is going to talk all about the Comic-Con.

And I'm going to also hit a little bit on the history of San Diego Comic-Con

and my connection with it and magic.

So I'll talk a little bit about that as well.

Anyway, so, okay, so in 1993, I'm going to first talk a little bit of my history with

San Diego Comic-Con, and then we'll get into this year's trip to San Diego Comic-Con. So in 1993, I was working at a part-time at a game

store called The Gamekeeper, and people were coming in and asking about this game called Magic

at the time we did not have. And I looked for it,

but I couldn't find it as well. It was magic. So just a little behind the scenes here.

When Magic first came out, it was mostly on the West Coast, and there wasn't a lot.

You know, the actual run of Alpha was not a very, I mean, I know that Peter and the company

thought they were making six months supply, and it sold out instantaneously.

But there really wasn't that much out there.

It wasn't, people were looking for it, but there just wasn't, overall, you know, the phenomenon

that magic became, it happened pretty quickly. And so it was almost impossible to find magic in the early days. And so people came in ours because I've worked at a game store and they're like, do you have this? And that's the first I had ever heard of magic. And the end the funniest thing is I'm not even sure everybody who walked in, like even knew the name of it. They would kind of describe it, you know.

But I had heard of it, and I was intrigued by it.

And so, it is, the first time I actually saw Magic Hearts was at the 93, at the 93 San Diego Comic-Con.

I lived in L.A. at the time, so I drove down.

Let's see, when was the 93?

So the 93 Comic-Con was August 19th through the 22nd.

So the game came out at GenCon in early August.

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