Well, things other than Tim Curry. It means costumes!
For the eighth year in a row, I went to New York Comic Con and once again found some amazing cosplayers! Fat Thor was probably THE costume of the convention, I saw him everywhere. Pictured above was my favorite variant: Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America as The Dude, The Jesus, and Walter from The Big Lebowski. For those of you trying to squint, the "Black Widow" is written on that coffee can.
Here are some other highlights I got over the four days:
The most impressive one I saw was probably this one:
The picture doesn't really do it justice, but that Iron Giant was MASSIVE. There's even a little Hogarth on the shoulder for scale. It was piloted by a girl on stilts.
And that brings us to the main subject of this post: I scratched off another entry on my bucket list and cosplayed for the first time this year!
On Saturday I dressed as Koichi aka The Crawler from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.
Pretty decent facsimile, isn't it? For those not in the know, My Hero Academia is an anime & manga about a world where everyone has some kind of superpower called a Quirk, and "Superhero" is just a job. A job that requires going to special schools for, as licensed Heroes are the only people who can legally use their quirks in public.
That brings us to the spinoff manga, Vigilantes. In a world of quirks, vigilantes are mostly unlicensed heroes, and their existence is quite frowned upon. The story follows a group of young-ish people who try to save the day any way they know how (but a little bit more than what the law would allow). The Crawler is the main character, and he can slide around the ground as fast as a ten speed bike when he makes three points of contact.
My Hero Academia has been hitting its peak in popularity here in the states, and cosplays of most of the main characters are really common because most of them are easy to pull off.
I chose to cosplay this guy because his look is pretty much an All Might cosplay with some cycling gear. I think the entire costume (jacket, pants, pads, gloves, face mask) all came around ninety dollars? And that was for something simple!
But not many people are aware of the spinoff, and thus cosplays are quite rare, even for this guy. I think I saw at least one or two every day, EXCEPT the one day I dressed as him. Hell, not a lot of people recognized who I was, but the ones that did were really excited to see me. I gotta admit, it's a pretty great feeling.
It really wouldn't be "me" unless I dressed as a deep cut. And the entire experience gave me a newfound respect for cosplayers. I was lucky that I happened to dress up on the coldest day of the year so I was perfectly fine wearing a hoodie, gloves, and pants in a crowded convention center in New York City. I could only imagine what it's like for the people who dress in fur, or in full armor when it's hotter. I was already sweating up a storm at 9:30 in the morning even with the cooler temperatures, I thought anything else would be hell! And those kneepads turned out to be a blessing in disguise as walking around that place all day gives a hell of a workout on the legs. But they were perfectly fine at the end of the day, and I considered that a win.
There's gonna be an anime convention also in the Javits next month, and I'll be wearing it there, too. Hopefully the weather cooperates and I'll be comfy again.
And that brings us to today: Halloween. It was a usual boring work day, where no one's able to dress up because I work in a supermarket. But this time I found a way around it.
It's just me with a beard, right? Wrong!
I went as the Mirror, Mirror version of myself, Spock style! I grew a beard out of laziness like I usually do, but this time I finally got the iron to strike. For years I'd been wanting to pull this off, but was never able to because I always tended to shave just before Halloween. I may have mentioned it on here before (I've been doing this for 11 years, it's pretty likely).
Unfortunately unlike The Crawler, no one noticed that I was in a costume today. Their loss, I suppose.
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