{"id":13826,"date":"2011-07-25T01:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2011-07-25T01:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T08:10:33","slug":"notes-from-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13826","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the San Diego airport, waiting until it&#8217;s time for me to check in for my flight in five hours or so. (For various reasons, this made more sense than the alternatives).<\/p>\n<p>So: Some random, tired notes about Comic-Con:<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-1149\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Comic-Con was neat. So huge! So much of everything! 99% of what&#8217;s there doesn&#8217;t relate to me or what I do in any way, but I decided to treat the experience as if I was a tourist, and that was fun. Plus, it was a chance to hang out with so many friends and neat people! I sold all the <em>Herevilles <\/em>I brought with me by Friday night, so I was free to wander the con. Which is <em>unbelievably <\/em>huge. You just walk and walk and walk and walk through these dense-as-a-subway-train crowds, and it never ends.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little sad not to win the Eisner Award, of course, but I got over that pretty quickly. It&#8217;s a cliche, but being nominated really is an incredible honor. And <a href=\"http:\/\/goraina.com\/\">Raina <\/a>deserves an Eisner!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s weird about the Eisner loss is, at least four people told me that the nomination was something &#8220;they&#8217;ll never be able to take away from you.&#8221; It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me to worry that anyone could take the nomination away until so many people started reassuring me that it couldn&#8217;t happen. Now I&#8217;m wondering&#8230; :-p<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Came within arms reach of Matt Smith (the actor who currently plays the lead on Doctor Who) while walking on the street. He looks like a beanpole on TV, but he looks <em>even thinner<\/em> in person.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Comic-Con is people-watching paradise, mainly because of the cosplayers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite cosplays seen at Comic-Con (frequently not the best ones &#8211; some of those cosplayers do movie-level mask and makeup effects &#8212; but the ones that I found memorable for whatever reason):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The centaur, with animated, natural-looking rear legs. (They were controlled with cables attacked to the cosplayers front legs, and moved fairly naturally.)<\/li>\n<li>The trio who &#8220;galloped&#8221; through the floor playing characters from Monty Python and the Holy Grail &#8212; the bard, the knight, and the squire creating a horse sound by clicking two coconut halves together.<\/li>\n<li>The mother-and-daughter pair of Batgirls I saw, walking and holding hands &#8212; they were both in head-to-toe Batgirl outfits, and I&#8217;m guessing the younger one was about seven years old. Awwwww.<\/li>\n<li>The short, female Tom Baker Doctor Who. (I saw about a zillion Matt Smith Doctors, including many women, but only a couple of Tom Bakers.) Not sure why this one entertained me so much &#8212; it was a pretty simple and easy costume, compared to many &#8212; but it did.<\/li>\n<li>The Robin who used very thin white mesh in his mask&#8217;s eyeholes, so he actually had the blank white eyes of Robin in the comics. Very neat effect.<\/li>\n<li>The enormously fat Spiderman, whose picture I&#8217;m sure will appear in mainstream newspaper coverage of comic-con. It just kicks ass that he&#8217;s that brave. Plus, is he the same as the fat Batman whose picture I&#8217;ve seen? I&#8217;d like to believe that it&#8217;s one very fat guy whose picture I&#8217;ve seen in all those dozens of news articles, just wearing different costumes each time, and that he gets a kick out of collecting his newspaper clippings.<\/li>\n<li>The very tall woman with beautiful, colorful wings &#8212; the nicest wings I saw at the con. She told me that she had bought the wings commercially, but then modified them by hand-attaching the feathers.<\/li>\n<li>The woman dressed as Black Cat, but wearing the shirt from a Spiderman costume. I liked this because it took me a while to get it &#8212; she was doing the thing some girls do of wearing their boyfriend&#8217;s shirt.<\/li>\n<li>The stormtrooper wearing a plaid kilt. Classic, simple, but still good.<\/li>\n<li>The woman in the head-to-toe Catwoman costume who stopped by my table and was very enthusiastic about Hereville.<\/li>\n<li>The man dressed as Beta Ray Bill. The cosplayer did an amazing job not just with the mask, but also with the inhumanly thick arms.<\/li>\n<li>The Rorschach walking around carrying a fake dead dog &#8212; extremely gruesome, but meaningful to folks who have read Watchmen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a handful &#8212; there were literally hundreds of people who attended in costume. I wish regular life was more like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the San Diego airport, waiting until it&#8217;s time for me to check in for my flight in five hours or so. (For various reasons, this made more sense than the alternatives). So: Some random, tired notes about Comic-Con: Comic-Con was neat. So huge! 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