I am bad at doing stuff at conventions. I love the atmosphere, and the opportunity to people-watch and hang out with like-minded nerds, and most of the time things like panels, screenings, and celebrity guests are just icing. I can probably count on two hands all the panels I’ve been to in my con-going life, and that’s out of sixteen conventions.
This lead-up is all an excuse to explain why I don’t have any first-hand news from any NYCC panels or photos of myself with famous guests—we didn’t bother seeking any out. There were only a few panels that sounded interesting to us, (Marvel in Television, the Firefly panel) but we have tremendously short patience for lines, and in the latter case, only part of our group had seen Firefly and we weren’t going to force them to wait for it without even an interest in it.
There were approximately 116,000 people at NYCC, and we had enough trouble just getting from one place to another in the Javits Center without drowning in Homestucks, let alone finding the rooms where actual panels were happening.
So, rather than a roundup of all the cool nerd news that came out of our gripping journalistic coverage of New York Comic Con, this is going to be a Best Of Cosplay roundup instead. Check out the slideshow or hit the jump for the gallery of our highlights!
- Lady Loki and Natasha Romanoff
- 21 and 24 from The Venture Bros (also, uh, spoilers)
- Tiger & Bunny’s Kotetsu and Barnaby’s hero mech suits (homemade!)
- Amazing Ursula, proving that girls aren’t the only ones who can crossplay successfully.
- A couple of sweet transvestites from transsexual Transylvania. (ha-ha).
- One of many Tony Stark/RDJ lookalikes at NYCC. This one stopped to talk to me while I was Gangnam Style-ing.
- This grown-up Toph cosplay is the Avatar cosplay to end all Avatar cosplay. All others may abandon the attempt and go home.
- Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon
- What would Comic Con be, really, without a wildly recent pop-culture relevant cosplay group?
- Yet another Lady Loki cosplay, also awesome.
- Me with Scarlet Witch and Psylocke. These two were hilarously sassy, and I had to get a picture with them. (I was Princess Luna; I’d taken my coat off to eat lunch.)
- Daenerys and Jon Snow. Complete with baby direwolf plushie. Fab.
- Lady Sherlock cosplay. Very awesome.
- Stuttgart!Loki. Actually on steps. Be still my heart.
- Two folks cosplaying Byakuran (one of my many husbandos from Katekyo Hitman Reborn).
- The Mystery Machine! Not cosplay, but still awesome!
- The Adam West-Batman Batmobile and motorcycle!
- Brock Samson and Molotov Cocktease from Venture Bros.!
- X-Mans.
- Shark Repellent Bat-Spray in action.
- Flame Princess cosplay with amazing hair!
- Husband and wife Whovian duo. I loved her Seven dress!
- LEVI!CAS HAS ALL MY FEELS.
- Jack Skellington (this guy was on stilts, he was awesome!)
- I’d read this Avengers book. The Powerpuff Girls with the Wasp and Scarlet Witch, as seen on a balcony from the con floor.
- Loki Laufeyson, comics edition.
- This Tony had that Tony sass locked down. She was awesome.
- Yamamoto and Gokudera from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
- My favorite lady-Cap of the weekend.
- This Castiel had awesome extendable wings for great justice.
- Queen Nefertiti from the “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” episode of Doctor Who!
- This guy is a real life person, not a Spider-man statue. He blows my mind.
- Double Nines! Lady Bacula as genderbent Nine, posing with a dude Nine. They were so happy to have found each other.
- Have a chilling Doctor Freeze cosplay. /cold puns
- Despite not being the droid I was looking for, this working, beeping, moving, cantina-music-playing remote-controlled robot was pretty cool.
- And for good measure, our cosplay for the weekend: Bacula, my roomie Nakura, and myself as Chrysalis, Celestia, and Luna from MLP.
- Myself, Nakura, and Bacula as Idris, the Eleventh Doctor, and Nephew the Ood from the episode “The Doctor’s Wife”.
- A slightly blurry shot of Nakura, myself, and Bacula as genderwapped versions of Eleven, Ten, and Nine respectively. (Geronimo/Allons-y/Fantastic!)
Were any of our readers at Comic Con? Did you cosplay? What were your favorite costumes you saw? Did you actually attend some of the programming? Let me know in the comments!