I feel your pain with the flight. I’ve flow to both Ireland and China from the US and I can’t sleep on flights (or really in cars). That really sucked.

My sister’s obsessed with Blockus. It’s a great time-killer. I’m not really surprised they use a lot of English, I was in Italy once it and it was a similar situation. I guess English is quickly becoming the Lingua Franca in Europe at least.

Also, I’d love to see those interviews, I bet they’re hilarious.

X-2′s finale will be that big? Oohh… if Ed Glaser’s involved,  you know it’s gotta be the shit.

SWEET MORE VIDEOS!
Sounds like it was a good time, I laughed a lot when you were talking about the Water. I remember when I lived in South America I had to do the same thing… though getting them from the tab isn’t the best idea.

I kinda miss flying… I used to do it all the time when I was young going from Brasil to the States and back and forth. I think living like that gives you the ability to fall asleep there. I remember one time I flew from the midwest to cali and I just put my tray down and passed out with my head on the tray. Oh And I’ve had that luggage thing happen a whole lot, which yeah does suck.

I was never able to learn the language in Brasil for some reason so I know what you’re talking about with the language thing as well.

Gotta love Air Conditioning, I hate the cold… unless it’s from an AC, not sure why I prefer that.

I really need to go some some big convention, I’ve only been to a really small comic convention that only took up one room at a hotel, but I love them.

That trip sounds awesome, glad to hear that besides the bad stuff it was perfect.

Here are DA links to the fanarts:
http://bernyarrbee.deviantart.com/art/Spoony-as-Terry-Bogard-256861949?q=favby%3Agrus%2F1138373&qo=14
http://foxxprincess.deviantart.com/art/TGWTG-Fancomic-Cover-256764347?q=favby%3Agrus%2F1138373&qo=10

I came across these a few days ago. I do hope that the artists comment here themselves as well, though.

Good to see you back :)
Austria really is lovely and the food there is great indeed. As to sprinkling water and still water, it’s pretty common in Europe to have a choice between the two. I happen to hate sprinkling water like nothing else in the world :P

Actually one can be culturally shocked by the presence of AC. We hardly have it in Poland (we do in office buildings etc., but rarely in private houses) so when I went to Japan and it was everywhere it got rather annoying. I hated having this constant draught of chilly air in my room so I preferred to turn the thing off, even though it was the middle of the summer.

Flying for nine hours is definitely terrible. That’s around how long it took me to get from Poland to Japan and I couldn’t sleep either. That also happened to be my first time travelling by plane.

Thanks for thanking my thanks. LOL
Anyways…

Just like with various other reviewers (Nostalgia Critic, AVGN, etc.), you’ve become a real inspiration to me, Spoony, and I’ve become a big fan of yours. I’ve never created fanart for any of you or anything like that, but I did make a tribute to TGWTG, Cinemassacre and Blistered Thumbs on my webpage (it’s my first production ever made), if you want to check it out at:
UnholyFireDragon.com

You were basically the “last straw” in making me create my own webshow starting in February, 2011. This was all after my TSE marathon of watching all of your website’s videos. You were that entertaining to me. Thanks for all the laughs.

I’m looking forward to your next video. :-)

I’ve only left the country once as well (besides going to Canada) and it was to visit both Spain and Paris on the same trip.

I too was very surprised at how many people were able to speak legit English! I was expecting there to be a ton of communication problems, but I can only recall of one moment where I was having troubles communicating with someone. Heck, I even met a guy in Spain who was able to speak seven different languages fluently and he knew a little bit of three other languages. I was simply amazed! (Haha, and it made me feel pretty stupid as well since I can only speak English and a tiny, tiny bit of Spanish. XD)

Also, I think food in Europe is the most amazing thing to eat ever! I still remember this certain dessert I had in Paris, and it was the most glorious thing that I have ever eaten.

Europe is so amazing and beautiful. I hope I’ll be able to go there again in the future!

That fan art you got was amazing! Haha, I especially dig the Spoony spoon! XD You’ve got some very talented fans!

The TGWTG Fancomic (hope that link works):
http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=108439

I’m glad you had a good time Spoony.  I really wish I was able to do things like that, but unfortunately I just don’t get that chance.  Believe me, I’d sell my right leg to even get the opportunity to bitch about trans-Atlantic flights or airline food or see signs in German and eat Schnitzel.  Farthest I’ve been in like 15 years was to Conbravo, and I still can’t get the nightmares out of my head(I was the guy who told you I had a fear of celebrities).

Anyway, still awesome to hear of the experiences you had.  Will say that after hearing about what they gave you over there, somehow Canada and it’s Timbits just can’t compare. 

Nice to hear about your trip Spoony,
I’m surprised that the still or sparkling water question confused you….
(you don’t drink much water, do you?)

Nice Fatal Fury hat by the way.
 

I actually went to Switzerland this summer.  I ended up having a similar situation to your’s with the airline.  From Chicago to Frankfurt, I just couldn’t sleep.  I went for about 40 hours straight with only about 2 hours.  Then my bag ended up getting lost for a day and a half before turning up at our hotel.  For me, it wasn’t so bad.  All of my clothes were in that one bag that turned up after a day.  My mother and brother, on the other hand, were packed in either the other bag (which showed up after about three days) or half in each bag.

Anyway, nice to have you back in the states!  Looking forward to more reviews!

Well, I don’t know them but I saw thier work on DA before but here’s a link to the guy that did that fancomic’s Deviantart account: http://nightthroat.deviantart.com/
Well, that trip sounded fun except the loosing your cloths part.
I lived in Az for about 5-6months with my cusins that live out there but my exsperince was a lot different that your everyday life.  My cusins are those survivalist/hippy types that live out in the middle of nowhere using solar panels for electrisity.  It was close by Flag Staff and not far from Snow Flake. 
So, there was absolutly no anti-tourist looking people?
I do like how a lot of ya’ll’s fanartist do get a lot of details wrong.

People in Mongolia speak….SURPRISE! … Mongolian. ;)  (an Altaic language probably more related to Turkish than Chinese)

I’m german and I have no idea why you would drink something that tastes as boring as still water. Carbonated water tastes _so_ much better.
In restaurants, you can ask for a bottle and sometimes they will give you ice to cool it.

By the way, you have every reason to feel like an american pig – seriously, who only speaks one language? Also, it’s “Duesseldorf” not “Duusseldorf”. ;-P
And the word for “bus station” is “Bushaltestelle” – it contains “bus” and “halt” so how can you miss that?

However, I would love to hang out with you in germany. That would be so amazing.

Also, it really scares me that you love austrian food that much, because to me it indicates how terrible american food has to be.

On a different note, how stupid is Benzai that he tries to hug a panda?

Hahaha. Szacunek dla ludzi którzy tłumaczą “Pana Łyżkę” na Polski :D chociaż nie oglądałem jeszcze to naprawdę szacunek za robotę jaką robicie :D

Hey,
Spoony, glad to hear you liked being on the other side of Atlantic Ocean ! English here is popular just because
having like 25 or more languages on a territory like half of States can be
little ‘difficult’ :) Hope one day you will come to see Poland. Recommend Warsaw or Cracov :) And you will see here
a LOT more things that will make you ‘shit bricks’ :) cause that’s how we roll
in a crazy land of Poland. I’m sure that guys up here would help you and show some things (castles, beautiful
girls, quality vodka, maybe some stupid stuff that communism left here :) i
think you can’t see that in USA as well {i mean except the girls}
:) )

If not i would
help, i have a great basement where i keep my daughter. But enogh
about Austria, if you know what i mean.

‘See you’ on a next great videos Mr “Łyżka”

3:41 uhh… what was that i just heard while you were itching yourself?

Wow Spoony.
I am Canadian and I don’t even speak French as well as you claim to D:
I would not be able string together any sort of sentence in French. I wouldnt be able to order food. I wouldnt be able to ask where the washrooms are. All I can say is hello :(

Those things about water and sodas? Those are in Central Europe, in South Europe we love still water and put ice on almost everything (even gazpacho) XD

I hate carbonated water, and I live in Poland :P

And Austria is not whole europe, all counties are different.

ok ok, i might have “borrowed” ur suitcase when i noticed ur name on the flight list for ur stop in dusseldorf. but seriously, all i did was put on every outfit once and jack off in it while i taped it. i made sure to clean em all and got most of the white stains off… i m sure u ll understand!

i ll upload videos soon.

Hey there everyone.and hi spoony ^^
first thanks for showing our Works and our Fancomic in your V-Log. SO AWESOME OF YOU!!! XDDD
We hadevnt written a link into the comic, because we didnt uploaded the comic anywhere then. but now we have XD
http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=108439
Fell free to use this link like you want XD..Thanks again man, you are awesome =D

Here’s a link to the manga-like comic book you reviewed:

http://tgwtg.smackjeeves.com/comics/1301080/cover/

By the way: I was the guy who killed you in my story. Hope you liked it. ;-P
The “Dead guys with the glasses” story will continue soon on http://www.manga-madness.de as well as on tgwtg.smackjeeves.com

Damn, I study in Austria. And my favourite internet celebrity visits when I’m home, hah!

Well, carbonated water certainly is something you’d have to get used to. Just as I had to get used to getting still water all the time, when I was in the States, studying at an American college for a few months. Personally, I prefer carbonated water over still water. I might as well just drink tap water, so why should I buy still water?

Hy Spoony, I was on of the fans from Hungary! I hope you didn’t forget the original DVD including one of the worst movies ever made! :D
I hope you gonna visit Hungary too! ;)

you dont have carbonated water….? how ass backwards is that?! O_o

Hey Spoony glad you liked Austria. I know how hard it can be to flight. One time i flew from Germany (yes i´m German blame me for loosing your luggage xD) to Texas and as you i can´t sleep on planes.

Yes the Water thing. I was shocked when i was in the USA and my aunt told me that you guys don´t have carbonated water ^^.

I hope you visit Europe again (maybe Germany next time ^^) and bring Linkara with you.

Am I the only one picturering Spoony shouting ´´Betrayal ! ´´ at the airport when he found out that his luggage were lost?

oh man if you like architecture you have to come to germany again. i can show you some awesome stuff like from lord of the rings ;3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Krypta_V%C3%B6lkerschlachtdenkmal.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Erzengel_Michael_Voelkerschlachtdenkmal_Leipzig_2009_02_24.jpg/220px-Erzengel_Michael_Voelkerschlachtdenkmal_Leipzig_2009_02_24.jpg

http://www.voelkerschlacht1813.eu/images/uploads/staetten/voelkerschlachtdenkmal.jpg

and thats just one place of many ^.^

Speaking of bad movies… No Retreat, No Surrender is the worst scam of a movie EVER.
HUGE picture of Van Damme on the cover, and he’s in the movie for like 10 minutes at the end, and 3 minutes at the start. >=[
Oh, if you wanna see the hero of the movie, you can see about 1/3 of his face if you look at the back cover! He’s in one of the tiny screenshots. :D

what the hell. in america you put ice in beer? well, i guess it doesn’t make a difference since your beer already tastes like beer-flavoured water ;)

Wow is that someone trying out a guitar at 3:41?

Hey Spoony, are you going to SPIEL this October?

oh man. you got me really excited for FFX-2 now. I already tried to get something out of you at the Q&A, but you kept your mouth shut at aninite. i hope it’s gonna be as big as you want it to be :)

but anyway, thanks for paying a visit to austria. i hope it’s not the last time.

I hate carbonated water.

Spoony, Europe has 50 countries and not two of them are the same. Differences between the countries are just as big as between USA and Austria (and in some cases way bigger). You should refer to Austria as Austria, since Europe is an ambiguous term.

generalize much?
99% of the people in Europa like still water better than bubbly water or it must be different in austria
here in the netherlands everybody hates that shit :P

Don’t generalize all of Europe by just one visit to one of the countries.

You should come to Sweden i dont think ive met one person ca 15-45 that dosent at least speak basic English. I think one of the things that really helps is that we dont dubb any of our tv. And that we learn English in school from grade 3 and up.

We dont expect Americans/English people to learn all different languages but something you guys could do is use metric, its really annoying that you guys dont do metric. I mean thats a little bit of effort that would go a long way. I mean even your scientists realize that metric makes it so much more convenient. You only represent 4. something % of the world. Hey we learned your language the least you guys can do is use metric when you speak to an international audience.

Just a though, just phase it out. Please America.

Keep up the good work Spoony and visit Sweden.

HAD I WENT WITH YOU YOUR FLIGHT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TO LONG, MARRY ME SPOONS,  

Yes, Germans, Austrians and the Swiss love carbonated/sparkling water, despite the fact that the quality of our tap water is very good. If you go to France, however, you will get as much still water (tap or mineral) as you can drink. In French restaurants, they will serve a big jug full of cold tap water with every meal, for no extra cost; but try to ask for carbonated water and they’ll look at you like you’re crazy, and if you’re lucky they will find a bottle that gathered dust in the cellar for a year (I had that happen to me, literally). It’s a northern Europe vs. mediterranean Europe difference.

On the other hand, you won’t find such a bewildering number of Soda pop drinks in northern Europe as you apparently find in the USA, to judge by some of Brad Jones’ “Brad Tries” episodes. Next time you are in Germany, try Bionade. It’s a sparkling, alcohol-free soda made by fermenting malt that comes in several fruit flavours such as ginger-orange, lychee, elderberry, quince, or herbs, with no artificially added sugar; it was invented in 1995 but It seems to be only available in Germany.

Ice in drinks. You can get ice cubes in your apple juice or Apfelschorle (a typical German summer drink made up of apple juice diluted with sparkling water) when it’s very warm outside, but otherwise the only place they put tons of ice into your Cola will be McDonalds. Probably because Germans would consider being forced to pay for a glass which is filled 70% ice and only 30% Cola as being cheated. And no German or Austrian would put ice in BEER. Heresy! Cold, yes, beer has to be cold, not piss-warm. But watering it down…. heresy! ;-)

The point about Europeans is that “Europe” really does not exist in the way the United States do. Europe (plus the British Islands and Scandinavia) is a culturally diverse area. There are cultural similarities, of course, due to history and due to TV equalising pop culture, and nations such as Germany have had an influx of immigrants from Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Asia that have permanently altered especially the cultinary landscape, so the standard fast food is Turkish kebab, Greek döner, German curry sausage and roast chicken, Chinese/Taiwanese roast-duck-made-for-Europeans, and Italian spaghetti.

But Austria and Switzerland are culturally and ethnically quite homogenous nations, despite the Swiss growning up with four languages (their own brand of German called Switzerdütsch, German, French, and English).

Also keep in mind that English is in fact a foreign language in all of continental Europe. But i.e. in Germany, English (and its weird demented cousin, “Denglish”, the kind of mangled English German commercials love to inflict on us) is becoming a parallel language in every-day life, even if there’s a perfectly good German term available, which can become frustrating.

Next time, stash some underwear in your backpack. Or go buy some essentials.

Oh god, I remember that video Doug did on his hotel in Vienna last year, and that room looked like a horrible dumb. Good to hear this time around you could sleep in a proper hotel.

Oh yes, air conditioning is uncommon in northern Europe, even in 4-star hotels, let alone in private homes. It’s not that people could not afford it, because the middle and upper income classes could, but it’s considered waste of electricity. The only rooms with air conditioning are computer server rooms. In northern Europe, people usually ask ” does this house have central heating?” instead.

A lot of European cities and infrastructure were devastated during the world wars, but there’s still a lot of architecture left that goes back to Roman, medieval or colonial times, and famous buildings destroyed during WW2 were rebuilt decades later. Places like Rome, though, have become a kind of tourist Disneyland version of Rome, stuffed full of architecture and tourists. But yeah, cathedrals and old castles are a dime a dozen in Europe and the UK.

Eh, Spoony, you don’t have a huge nose.
Good luck at the doctor’s.

Try flying back from Europe with a stomach virus..trust me your sleepless night will seem like a cakewalk :P

 Too bad I missed you at PAX East. Would’ve loved to meet ya.

Do you have to always be so down on your own culture man? Everyone in the world has something positive to contribute after all.

I am really glad that you had a great time in Europe, s there is chance to see you live on some other Convention. I am not from Austria but from Czech republic and that is why i can really say that you have lots of fans all over the world (to be honest almost all reviewers from TGWTG has lots of fans here). I hope that you will visit Europe more and maybe here in Czech Republic. 

And now the question about still ans sparkling water. I personally prefer still water but the sellers here don’t get lot of money for this water so they want to sell you something else. I personally don’t like this idea but it is possible to get used to it. And this ice in all drink think its really easy to explain. I think that this ice really destroy taste of any drink, so why to put ice into beer? Water from ice is then mixed with beer and than it taste really awkward. The same think with cola or something else. It is better to cool down whole drink and serve than put somewhere ice.

And one think, there are some people that translate your show to czech too so with polish we are the second nation.

Spoony could you upload your videos in less HD? These files are so big that they take forever to load with my connection and they only play back choppy in the flash player.
I have to actually download and play them in VLC.

Or maybe you can get that HD on/off button that penny arcade TV has. They are also on blip, so there should be a way…

Spoony You Fucking Rock keep up the good work

oh spoony you can’t talk like that about Europe xD I think most people in the US seem to forget that “Europe” is NOT a country, you can’t look at us the same way you look at the united states. There are lots of different Nations and cultures in Europe, if you go to Spain or Portugal you’ll find that things differ from Austria/Germany over there. So careful with the generalizations ;)
And of course every Airport has everything displayed in English, its a damn AIRPORT and english is the World language! ^^  But you’re right about the water thing…actually im quiet amazed that you just drink still water in the US oO …I mean, I dont go to restaurant or something to drink table water, I can drink that at home.

I’ve lived in Vienna my whole life so I’m glad you liked it.
Btw sparkling water is kind of a healthy alternative to what you would call a ”soda”.
It’s commonly used to dilute fruit juice, or to fill your stomach when you diet.
The default drink is tap water and it’s the most natural thing to order “tap water” (because its really good^^).
If you want to show off your wealth, you order still water… ;)
As far as the air condition is concerned: Many places actually have it, but most Austrians who are exposed to it every day HATE it. So we either turn it off or turn it down if we can.
 

Directed at the still and sparkling water comment, this is epic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ7Mrmdn9y4

Glad you enjoyed your trip to Austria.

reminds me of my trip to Dubai earlier this year , which I enjoyed.

BTW , in case you didn’t get the idea behind the “Spoony , grab my coat” fan art , it’s basically inspired by a meme from deviantArt.

here’s a link that explains it:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme/x-grab-my-y

God dammit- these adds!
 
At the one minute mark, I get that annoying pop tart advertisement and the video immediately ends mid-sentence. It doesn’t matter if I try to replay the video, I still get the add.

Ouch, bro. I’m European, and I’m rather offended. I hate “sparkling” water. I’m on tap water for 5 years.

Also, no worries about the languages. Im yet to meet someone who doesn’t know at least a BIT of english.

To be honest not nearly everyone drinks “sparkling” water in europe. And like someone said, the bottled water is usually mineral water or spring water, which makes it well.. worth something i guess. I don’t know, never really understood that.

But anyway it was great to see that you enjoyed visiting europe, even though most of the things that you said were like.. I guess normal to us europeans. So it was pretty amusing how you reacted on things. Oh well I guess no one can blame you, if it was your first time in europe. I guess I’d be as surprised of things if I went to “the states” :D

Is it really that hard to sit your ass down and learn few words of a language. I’m from Serbia and speak English and some basic French but when I went to Wiena I learned some german so i could get arround. It took me about a week of one hour sesions with book and computer to lern enough to find my way. 

Also, communicate with people. In one day you will pick up lots of phrases that will help you.

Sparkling water is just more refreshing to the mouth. Nothing else. And it fills your stomach faster.

And Wiena has some of the best tap water of all the big cities of the world. I enjoyed it greatly.

Ah, your whole speech on how they do things in Europe…brings back memories. i miss Germany sometimes, but the water…pass. :P

Dont worry noah im from ireland an i dont no any other european languages.. besides from gibersh haha

I’m glad you liked Austria. Too bad i wasn’t there.. even though i live only about 40 minutes away from Vienna.. well.. maybe next year!
For Austrians i guess it’s a lot easier to learn english.. at least i think so. Just because we all grew up with english music or in my case with quite many tv shows or movies in english (german synchronisation can really suck at times…)

Can’t wait to see the future updated you talked about.
Especially Dead Island… (i hate it, imo it’s just boring as hell :P)

Best Regards,
peDa

PS: I’d love to see another let’s play like phantasmagoria.. is there anything planned like this? I still can’t believe i watched it about 3 times… :D

The Dutch drink still water and fuck sparkling water right up its ass.

I don’t take any credit for these comics but I found a link for the fan comics
http://tgwtg.smackjeeves.com/

I ended up hearing about the event through a friend that’s a student and lives in Vienna. He had a very adorable dog costume there called “Dog” (there’s a photo of him and Doug here: http://karpour.livejournal.com/140283.html#cutid1). I’m glad you had fun. I caught the video of the coaster flipping game. Amusing stuff. Been watching the group of you guys from over the years. I think I’ve been watching the TGWTG site since 2009. Good times. I was curious what type of heart condition you have? -Erika erika.rosengarten@gmail.com

i didnt watch this yet but i hope so much this isnt going to be the same amount of disrespect, childish jokes and rambling like the time when the nostalgia critic was in austria… but im pretty sure you are, even tho you might be even more cynical, also more mature. let me check ;)

Glad you liked Europe :) Come to Germany (maybe bavaria^^)!

Hey, don’t feel bad about shaving once a week, I do that too, and even then just because my work requires me to be clean-shaven (I work on the weekends, fyi)

It is very interesting to hear about your experiences in Europe. I went to Italy 2 years ago, and had the same experiences you did. Every meal, ANYWHERE, was amazing. If you wanted water you got a fancy glass bottle to share. The Art and Architecture is phenomenal. Also I went in August, so It was stifling, especially in Rome. I was borderline dead from heat stroke. I’m not used to extreme heat at all, I live in BC.

If you ever go to Europe again, I strongly recommend Italy. It will just blow your mind. Especially Venice. That place is magical. Just be sure to bring a portable fan and plug adapters. I made the same mistake of not realizing just how hot it can be, and I also didn’t know they didn’t have AC.

Glad to see your back though, looking forward to more awesome videos.

This is why I never feel weird packing a day or two worth of underwear and socks into my carry-on bag.

And your razor story made me nostalgic :p  I used an electric until college.  Then I tried a safety blade, and never looked back.  I didn’t realize how much the electric was tearing my face up.  You mean all that pain and rawness isn’t normal?! :p

Gulasch soup on the plane, eh? That’s a Hungarian meal, originally called gulyás. Well, I guess that’s the closest you’ll get to Hungarian culture or Hungary (my homeland) anyway. As for the old castles and fortresses: the whole continent is riddled with them. Peace is a relatively new thing here, European history is full of wars, so in the old times everybody wanted to live in an at least somewhat fortified place. Americans are pretty lucky in this aspect I guess, since most of their wars haven’t taken place in your own country.

As for long travels, i have to admit that I never left Europe so far. Honestly, even the taught of flight scares the shit out of me. Probably I would expect the plane to crash from the moment of taking off until the (hopefully) safe landing. So wherever I went, I did it with using buses and sometimes trains. The longest trip of mine was to England with a group of tourists on bus. The trip took 24 hours (including a 15 minute stop after every 3-4 hours). That was probably the longest day in my life.

As for the lack of AC: around here most of the people won’t buy one because it cost a LOT (well, compared to an average Hungarian salary anyway) to maintain them. I for one don’t even have central heating, putting some wood in the fireplace solves the issue during winter. As for the sometimes 100-110 F° heat during summer, we just open all the windows and hope for a rain or some wind to blow it away soon.

The others have covered other topics (Europe is not a country, the water-issue, knowledge of English, etc.) multiple times already, so I won’t bother with those. If you guys will come next year too, I’ll try to make it to Vienna. It’s not so far from here after all.

Living in Australia and having relatives all over the continent and also in Greece and Switzerland (and now America), I’ve travelled in planes a lot and I can really sympathise with both A) being unable to sleep on fucking looooong flights, and B) losing your luggage (Greece airports are bloody nightmares). And as I’m always traveling economy where you can’t lie down, I always envy my cousins who go first and business class everywhere! (Helps when you’re not nigh broke, apparently…)

As for the AC, living in a hot arid environment – as most Aussies can attest to – I can identify with the love of air-con. My own addiction to AC has probably added a couple of thousand square km to the hole in the ozone layer… not something I’m particularly proud of. 

I’m never anywhere near animecons (an obvious mistake of geography) but they do sound really fun so I should scrape together my savings and get to Sydney or Melbourne for the next one that comes around.

Great to hear you had a such a good time in Vienna. It is one hell of a beautiful city and I can just imagine how awesome having a con there might be. Thankyou for the sweet shout-out to the fans. We’re not all raving lunatics, and those of us that sometimes behave like it aren’t like that all the time, so thanks for giving us the benefit of the doubt. There’s some amazing fanart out there, and it’s always great to see it getting appreciated by the people who inspired it, as well.  

I’m from Europe, and sparkling water taste awful, it tastes like air from a very old bicycle pump. In Denmark they call it Danish Water for some reason.

well i am from austria and let me tell you… you missed something, check it out :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

Did a simple Google search for “that guy with the glasses comic” and found this as the first link

http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=108439

full free comic :)