On Saturday July 25th I went to MCM Manchester Comic Con! It was at Manchester central. It’s the first comic con I’ve been to and the whole thing was very excitings. We went for the whole day, got there about 10:30am and stayed until around 5:30pm. I do get a bit nervous in social situations so to start with it all felt ever overwhelming. But my boyfriend was with me and we took baby steps; this is a process I go through to make me feel more comfortable in social situations. We started by slowly walking around so I have an internal map in my head and also I get used to the number of people around. I actually also really struggle with masks, (don’t trust people if I can’t read their face I think?!?) so with so many people dressed up, that took some adjusting too. But my boyfriend is now pretty well practiced at this kinda thing so it all settled down pretty quickly for me. Once I settled into the swing I really started to enjoy it.

There was a large room full of stalls that sold everything you would ever want from Comic Con, from shirts to replica weapons. They had stalls where you could play Yu-Gi-Oh and Hearthstone, not that I did because by the time I had built up the courage, I was running out of time for all the things I wanted to see and do! and I did play Hearthstone on my phone when I got in 🙂

There was another large room which was treated as a meeting room for people. There were a few catering stalls dotted about. The GF options were limited to salads which isn’t the best selection but we bought food with us as we didn’t know what was going to be available there. There was another room with the meet and greets in and there was a theater where the panels were held.