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A Guide to Cosplay

DateFriday, June 3, 2011 at 12:00AM | AuthorTravis

We did not cosplay at Comicpalooza last weekend, but we had such a fun time watching the cosplayers that we’re thinking of doing it next time. As such, we were paying close attention to the different types of cosplayers we saw and quickly identified some distinctive camps.

Aang was the first cosplayer that we saw when we got to Comicpalooza and, just like last year (see Kris’s bio pic on the About Us page), Kris insisted on getting his picture with him. We’ve done this two years in a row, so I guess this means it’s a tradition now.

Kris & Aang

When Kris asked, Aang got this deer in the headlights look before he posed. His dad immediately started laughing and said “I told you.” Apparently, Aang didn’t expect anybody would be asking for pictures. While we might have been the first people to ask, I doubt we were the last.

I had seen The Doctor twice before I stopped her for a picture, each time the perfectness of the costume making me giggle. When I asked her for a picture, her immediate response was “With or without the TARDIS?” I was dumbstruck. “You have a TARDIS?” Before I could finish, this unassuming piece of cardboard her friend was holding unfolded into the unmistakeable blue box.

The Doctor Comes Prepared

It was a stupid question. She was The Doctor; of course she had a TARDIS.

After we read comics on Wednesday, Kris and I tried to come up with a list of 52 DC comics for the big September reboot. We found this surprisingly harder than we thought it would be and struggled to get to 52. After we got it, we adjourned to the kitchen for milk and cookies where we proceeded to throw out more titles just to see how many we could come up with. The sugar definitely helped get our brain juices flowing as we came up with a total of 83 issues. Now, some of the things we threw out were absolutely ridiculous like both Jonah Hex and Bat Lash as Didio said they’d have westerns plural or a Deadman book that would basically be Quantuum Leap with Dove playing the role of Al (and Hawk as Ziggy, I guess). Other ideas, like a Gotham General Hospital book, were basically hopes of things promised at one time that never materialized.

Today DC announced the first trickle of new titles. We did pretty good and only missed Captain Atom and the anthology book. The fact that Deadman is the first story in the anthology book probably means he’s not going to be getting his own title (very disappointing) and since Vixen’s in JLI that probably means the Justice League Africa book will also not occur. Our idea of a Hawkman book was going to have no dialog and would just be page after page of Hawkman beating people’s heads in with his mace. The Savage Hawkman sounds like it might be something similar. In a couple of weeks we’ll get to see what else is coming out and then see how many we missed.

Travis, what’s on your pull list?

  • Batman Beyond #6 - If September’s Day and Date Digital system is going to work, then books need to actually come out on the day they’re expected.
  • Batman: Knight of Vengeance #1 - Thomas Wayne is a total badass. I love that Gordon is a constant wherever he appears.
  • Secret Six #34 - I hope that Gail Simone gets to write a rebooted Secret Six after September. It’ll be a shame to lose this book.
  • World of Flashpoint #1 - Traci 13 either needs her own book in the new world or become a re-occuring character in something else.

Kris, what’s on your pull list?