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Aug. 6th, 2007 10:45 amCrooked
EVIL NINE W/AESOP ROCKS
Aug. 6th, 2007
Crooked
EVIL NINE W/AESOP ROCKS
"Silence filthy human... we do not want to hear about your 'Blog'!"
Dragon*Con 2007
~Rob M.
Well I just got my tickets for Fanboy Mardi Gras '07, Atlanta's annual cross-genre mating ritual for the self-alienated and socially awkward. It wasn't always like this though. What once began as a very modest gaming/comic book convention has evolved over the years into a one-of-a-kind dionysian fringe festival, one celebrating Summer's twilight with a gathering of Bradburian "October People". I believe this has to do with fandoms own unique chrysalis over the years, emerging slowly from a cocoon of self referential isolation into a kind of sexually charged anything goes sense of play. What they call "Geek Chic" now a days. ( Read more... )
So one day you wake up with superpowers. Sweet! You can fly. You can punch holes through walls. You can pop claws out of your hand. Do whatever a spider can. But what if you drew a low card on the metahuman/mutant/mystic lottery? What if you found out you had phantom vision, wombat senses, doppler radar, turn gold into lead, channel the spirits of trailer park ghosts, see one second into the future, shrink (which sorry to say Atom & Ant Man, would fucking suck big time when Ultron or the Anti-Monitor came a calling), had a bionic toe or could talk to fish (not command them Aqua-fool just talk to them!)
Well chances are you'd still have to sew yourself up a costume no matter what you planned to do with your gifts. Remember this is comic books not NBCs Heroes. In comics even a teenager whose sole power was to become two teenagers had to put on a cape and a flight ring... poor, poor Duo-Damsel).
This is where I want to help. Because in comic books sure you can die a hundred times and come back... no sweat. However just like in real life you only get to make a first impression once (no matter how many first issues you get) so you should really try to pick a decent set of tights before you go prowling rooftop to rooftop. No one wants to see you shove a sock down your spandex while you try not to trip over your own cape, okay? It's not just embarassing yourself, your embarassing the evil scientists, world conquerors and evil mutants who have taken the time to make you their arch enemy. If not for them, think about the civilians you'll be saving. No one wants to pulled out of a burning building by a guy who looks like a color blind Ziggy Stardust on angel dust.
So inspired by these lists of the best and worst costumes of all time. I went ahead and tried to pick a few of the worst. Sh'yeah, good luck there. So i'll have to do it by hero/villain and DC/Marvel. First the lists.
20 coolest costumes of all time
Some of the worst
More of the worst
So we'll begin with Marvel Superheroes and some of the outfits that have left a Ben Grim sized bad taste in my mouth. ( Five of the worst offenders )
Well chances are you'd still have to sew yourself up a costume no matter what you planned to do with your gifts. Remember this is comic books not NBCs Heroes. In comics even a teenager whose sole power was to become two teenagers had to put on a cape and a flight ring... poor, poor Duo-Damsel).
This is where I want to help. Because in comic books sure you can die a hundred times and come back... no sweat. However just like in real life you only get to make a first impression once (no matter how many first issues you get) so you should really try to pick a decent set of tights before you go prowling rooftop to rooftop. No one wants to see you shove a sock down your spandex while you try not to trip over your own cape, okay? It's not just embarassing yourself, your embarassing the evil scientists, world conquerors and evil mutants who have taken the time to make you their arch enemy. If not for them, think about the civilians you'll be saving. No one wants to pulled out of a burning building by a guy who looks like a color blind Ziggy Stardust on angel dust.
So inspired by these lists of the best and worst costumes of all time. I went ahead and tried to pick a few of the worst. Sh'yeah, good luck there. So i'll have to do it by hero/villain and DC/Marvel. First the lists.
20 coolest costumes of all time
Some of the worst
More of the worst
So we'll begin with Marvel Superheroes and some of the outfits that have left a Ben Grim sized bad taste in my mouth. ( Five of the worst offenders )
