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Panel Room 2 at Portsmouth Comic Con May Be the Best Panel Room of All Time

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Portsmouth Guild Hall was built in 1890 but it took a good hundred and twenty-seven years for it to host its first comic convention.

Rebuilt after being bombed in the Blitz, it has preserved much of heritage, pomp and grandeur. Even when hosting their first comic convention, the Portsmouth Comic Con. And I've been here all day.

Now I've been to a lot of comic conventions in the last three decades. This is a fine show, something the organisers should be proud of for their first attempt, and the venue is well suited.

But Panel Room 2 is off the scale. Because it seems to be the Council's county chamber of office.

It looks like this.

Panel Room 2 at Portsmouth Comic Con May Be the Best Panel Room of All Time

So panelists look like this.

Panel Room 2 at Portsmouth Comic Con May Be the Best Panel Room of All Time

And this.

Panel Room 2 at Portsmouth Comic Con May Be the Best Panel Room of All Time

And yes, the central one is raised. Look at Sean Phillips' grin…

Also all the seats are wide, leather and luxurious, with leg room. A shelf to put your stuff. And a power socket for your phone and/or laptop.

I have travelled a first class panel. I will never be able to go back to a normal panel room again. Sorry.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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