I saw an odd trend at Comic Con this year. There were lots of women wearing men's costumes. I have seen this before, but it was really big this time. It is not that the women were trying to pass as men. They were trying to look like women, but they were dressed like Han Solo, Iron Man, or The Joker. I think this is getting to be a bigger and bigger trend. I think it is a good way for people to make costumes that no one has ever seen before. I think that having something people have never seen before is a big thing.
There were lots of women dressed as male characters. I only saw one man dressed as a female character. That is the man dressed like Harley Quinn in the photo above. I can see how there are few female characters that would look good as a man. I think that it would be cool to get a male Rouge or male Raven.
I am not sure what the increase in "cross play" mean. Yes, cross play is the term for dressing as a character of the opposite gender. I think that people are trying to push more the edge. I think cross play is an easy way for people to do this. It might also be a way to dress like a character that is not a sex symbol.
I will say again that this is the costume century. By 2100 people will be dressing like movie and comic book characters as part of their everyday life.
I have this theory that the 21 century will become the Century of Costume and Cosplay. I cannot tell you how many people I see dress up to go to movies. It seemed like people were dressing up for ever blockbuster this summer. People even dressed up to buy a book this year. No other reason, but to line up and buy a book.
I predict that by the end of the 21st century people will be dressing up like superheroes to go to work everyday, hanging out in pirate bars. People's whole lives will be attached for their fandom for a genre. Look, it already happens with goths and vampire fans.
I think it will be pretty cool with this happens. Costumes all the time. No need to worry about what other people think of you. No standards about how you should dress. No one looking down you because you are a fan. Is there something wrong with me that I want to see this?
I love when people dress up like obscure comic book characters. I know the Question had his own book. I know he showed up in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon. I also know that none of my sisters would be able to ID him. I think it is cool.
There are lots of people walking around comic con making movies. It is some kind of sport or something. I have never seen one of these movies. I want there to be a "shot at comic con" film fest.
I love this set of costumes. If you do not know, Streaky was Supergirl's cat and Krypto was Superboy's dog. They have recently received their own cartoon.
This might be the best costume I have seen so far. I love this idea. Someone call whoever owns the rights to Ghostbusters. I think this would be a good comic.
On Saturday at Comic Con I got a little bored taking pictures. I wanted to find something tun to do. I was alone so I could not pose with the people in costume. I wanted to do something I could make a Flickr Set out of. I kept on seeing the Jesus is Metal shirts. I thought to myself it would be cool to ask people in costume to throw horns like heavy metal.
I got great reactions from most of the people that I asked. A few said no and few did not understand. For the most part the people in costume thought it as a great idea. Some of them really rocked out.
The pictures that look the best are the people who totally broke character to throw horns. I think that is the spirit of metal. The problem is if you do not break character you ended up looking like you are casting a spell like Dr. Strange. For my money, Dr. Strange just is not metal.
I was really hoping to start a meme with this. I know other people saw me doing this, but I have not seen people I don't know post photos like this. I also was hoping someone would Boing Boing this set or somethings. It looks like I had no such luck. I will have to get more of these photos next year. Maybe If I work at it long enough it will become a meme.
