Big brothers have a responsibility to ruin things, but boy, oh boy, did I ever ruin my sister Michelle’s birthday party back in 1980. It was an epic destruction on an unimaginable scale that came in the heat of the moment, and even though I bear guilt at the audacity of the moment, I also have a strange sense of pride. Like Aragorn at Helm’s Deep, I stood against a horde of enemies to defend something sacred: my tree house. A year or two before Michelle’s birthday party, my

John Wells, organizer of QuadCon, can always be spotted in his unique outfits. Every circus needs a ringmaster, and for QuadCon Toy and Comic shows, that ringmaster is John Wells. As a child of the 70s and 80s, Wells immersed himself in the music, toys, and entertainment of the day, and now, decades later, he’s turned that passion into a thriving business that travels the midwest, bringing other vendors and creators with him. On any given weekend, a QuadCon Toy and Comic show