Phoenix Comicon, Part 4- The People

Part 1, Build up
Part 2, Our Costumes
Part 3, Panels

The people were weird. They were strange. They were smart. They were dumb. They were kind. They were jerks. Basically, take a sampling of humanity, and you have your Comicon group. I didn't really "connect", but that isn't surprising, given that I was in charge of two very excited young people. There was no real time for chatting.

And really, we were there for the costumes. We were not disappointed.

I think, when we go again, I'd like to have some time set aside to just sit and watch. I've been seeing some pictures on Facebook of incredible costumes that I didn't see. There really was no way to see everyone, obviously. Everyone that dressed up did a great job. Most people were very nice when asked for photos. We all got many compliments on our costumes, and were asked for photos ourselves. I think the kids were asked by the official Con photographers every day - I have 7 cards from them.

Ariel, Rapunzel, Aurora and Hermione

Z and Nick Fur-reeee (as he says it)

Awesome 11th Doctor and Tardis in kid's fashion show

Tonto, Kid's Fashion show. Maybe one of the best, most original costumes I saw.

Ood and Weeping Angel

Belle, Rapunzel and Ariel

Edward Scissorhands at wand making class.

The Riddler with Iron Patriot and Bat Girl.

Harley Quinn and Bat Girl

Bat Man and Bat Girl

Peter Pan handed out magic jewels to the kids. So awesome.

Bat Person and kids

The only Thor (adult) we saw.

Z was blown away, because Thor let him "try" to pick up Mjölnir, and he did it! He told Thor that he had never been to Asgard, but that he was very strong. I think Thor laughed. I don't know who Thor's companion is, but Z was taken with her.

This one was funny. This Steampunk guy came up to us out of the blue and started playing like he was shooting Z. Z stood his ground and protected us. The Steampunk guy acted defeated. It was a little bit of awesome. I guess I need to find out what Steampunk is.

There were a lot, I mean a LOT of Jokers. We weren't in close proximity to many. This guy was sweet.

Homemade Iron Man. It was really well done. Very nice guy, he looked like Jim from "The Office."

This was the best Superman.

Quite a few Captain Jack Sparrows. They were all mostly awesome. This guy was in character and I wanted to hang out with him and party.

Empty child. One of several we saw. I want to do this for the kids. Except better.

More Iron Man. This is the AZ Avengers "official" Iron Man. We had to (like, Zane really really wanted us to) wait for him to suit up. There was no reasoning with him, and he had been really patient, so we waited. Worth every second.

Scarlet Witch. We saw 2 or 3, which I thought was awesome. A loves her on Super Hero Squad. The kids call her super powers "Pink Power" because she shoots out pink charges when she attacks. Funny.

A really cool Wonder Woman. Maybe my favorite. Z was sad he chose not to take a picture with this one, and asked several times over the weekend if we could try to find her.

Super Man and Super Girl with Kryptonite.

A couple of Super Kids at Xavier University.

Captain America and Scarlet Spidey. Cap is Z's favorite person. We saw a lot of him, and he was incredibly sweet and patient with the kids. All of the "professional" cosplayers were, really.

So, I was calling this girl "Joker", and I still think that's right, but I'm not 100% sure. After the weekend, I realized there is a LOT I don't know about comics, pop culture, etc.

Iron Man hugging Bat Man

Captain America and Iron Patriot

Harry Potter and Hermione

Wasp and Bat Rapunzel

We learned how to be a mermaid from this girl. SO cute.

Hawkeye and Cap. Seeing a theme here?

Katniss!

Zombie Alice and Mad Hatter

Phoenix Comicon Part 2- Our Costumes

 The continuing saga of our first Comicon. The part that, to the kids, was the most important. The costumes. See the first part here- it's kind of dull, the leading up to getting there.

COSTUMES

As previously mentioned, we pulled together costumes. The kids got such a kick out of that.

Day One, Bat Girl and Bat Man. 
Super cute, and super popular. I think about 15 people stopped us to take pictures, and we were only there from 4:30-7:30 or so. There were lots of Bat people there all weekend, but I think Ada's Bat Girl costume was definitely the cutest of the lot. Sadly, she dropped her mask as we were walking out for lunch on the last day. Someone saw it drop and ran to tell us within 2 minutes, but someone else had grabbed it and never turned it in to lost and found. Jerk. Not the only one we ran into.

Day two, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. 
These were the costumes that needed the most supplementing, but everything was super cheap on eBay and Goodwill. I lucked out. Zane was a fabulous Harry, although he didn't want to be for very long, and Ada's Hermione was out of this world. The two of them together, once again, were huge camera draws, and got lots of photo requests.

  

Harry and Hermione. Expelliarmus!

Harry Potter

Harry and Hermione take on the TARDIS

Days three and four-
Anything goes. I found Iron Patriot for Zane, which we only saw 2-3 others of. I think that was is favorite costume, although it was my least favorite. The body of the costume is just a simple Halloween costume, polyester jumpsuit. Not clever at all. But he loves it.

Ada brought her Rapunzel dress. She wasn't sure she wanted to wear it, but the third day, we did a hybrid of Rapunzel and Bat Girl. That was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.
   

Mostly Ada did Hermione for the last two days, though. She really liked the attention. Can't imagine where she gets that from.

As for me, I switched it up over the days, but I think it went like this:

Day one:11th Doctor 
Easy to pull off, just needed suspenders and a bow tie (got a Jerry Garcia one which was on clearance at Kohl's for $5.)  Black skirt and tights and shoes I already owned, cream colored long sleeved shirt and cami, I went femme Doctor. Oh, and the fez I got a while back. Can't forget the fez. Fezes are cool.

  

Days two and four: Captain Mal Reynolds-
This ended up being my favorite, much to my surprise. It was also the most under-represented at Con, also much to my surprise. I just added brown ribbon to the sides of khaki pants I had, long sleeved burgundy shirt, 11th Doctor suspenders, brown boots I already own, black cami. I spray painted one of the kids' toy guns. Belt from Walmart. Femme Mal. I have to say, the Browncoats were kind of assholish.So sad.




 
Day three- morning
4th Doctor- Costume Tee, grey skirt, brown hat. Simple. I thought it was cute, and probably the most comfortable. Not as clever as the others, though, and nowhere near being a great 4th Doctor.

Day four, afternoon/evening TARDIS - 
I would hazard a guess that the TARDIS was the most done costume at Con. Or at least the most represented symbol. You couldn't walk 10 feet without seeing a t-shirt, hat, or full-blown costume. I was hesitant to do it, because it's way overdone, and I'm all about originality. However, since I already owned three TARDIS t-shirts, I tried to think of a way to incorporated them into something interesting. Two weeks ago, Ada had her dance recital, and one of her costumes gave me the inspiration I was looking for. I mad a TARDIS tutu. Awesome, no? Eh, it had great potential, but I don't think I pulled it off. I made it far too fluffy for someone as big as I am. I will redo the fluffy bits, and next time I need a TARDIS tutu, I will be rockin' it. I paired it with my TARDIS tank, some electric blue leggings and my blue and black canvas shoes, plus used some blue and white tulle in my hair. The hair bits ended up being smoshed around by the kids, so I took it out and used it like a headband. Not quite as cute.

Of course I don't have a decent picture of me. Some may pop up on the forums, so I'll keep my eyes peeled.