Have you ever go to a comic book convention with a costume?

When I'm cosplaying, I always give instructions to my friends of how to remove my costume if I pass out on it

Not planning on cosplaying, but are there any links or vids on how to set that up? that shit sounds interesting.

I didn't build the mechanism myself, because I leave the engineering to the engineers. I bought a backpack + vest set from a company called Compcooler. The backpack has the battery and pump and a water tank, and you connect it with some snap-together tubes to a vest you wear.

I glued some dowels onto the side of the backpack so that I could mount a covering on top of the backpack unit, so it becomes a part of the costume rather than stick out like a sore thumb. I've only used it for one cosplay so far, but in theory it should be the sort of thing I can built a bunch of different costumes around, I just need to make different costume-appropriate coverings for them.

>That's why my most recent costume was fucking water cooled via a bunch of tubes and a battery operated pump.
Is there a kit you can buy and incorporate into cosplay? Or just wear under your clothes during summer in South Florida?

right here , freind

my favorite part of cosplaying for conventions is going to eat after in full cosplay. It's hilarious.

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I've gone in cosplay several times. Just recently I did the Punisher-Spider design for a con but I fucked up on the costume order. I forgot to make my mask detachable so it was pretty hell at the con for me that weekend.

I do want to sell more at cons. I did my first AA last year (invited to the table by my artist) and we're looking into doing one in Philly later this year.

Costume in question. You can't see the backpack from the front, but you can imagine how hot it would be without some way to cool off.

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Went to comic con last year as Anakin. Was a lot of fun

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its from a documentary, theyre on their way to SDCC

You were at Katsucon too?

I was there rolling around with people in Siege cosplay. And as

A bit edgy but I approve

conventions are fun but also weird as shit.

t. just go to get obscure comic books and meet creators and go to panels im too shy to cosplay as rorscach

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it was gud timez bruh

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I do the same thing after every con; usually at the same place. Get's a smile out of the workers.
Nice Hellboy cosplay btw; gonna do one at my next convention. How did you do the horns? EVA foam and spirit gum?

Not me, just a picture I found lol

Back when I was a twink, my girlfriend and I would cosplay as girls together

Shit, sorry

Yeah, I go every year. I don't know whether I saw you or not. Its a big place.

>Back when I was a twink, my girlfriend and I would cosplay as girls together

what did you mean by this

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don't worry lol
do you have pictures of you with your cosplay while eating or doing regular shit? I kind of collect these

I dressed up as an Yea Forums character.
It was fun, and a boomer who was chaperoning their weeb daughter recognised my character and we had a laugh.
Other than that nothing special occurred, other than me finding a cool Spawn statue.

I went to C2E2 dressed as Captain Cold once. I'm pretty sure I was the only Captain Cold there, and it was pretty fun! Got a handful of people who wanted to take pictures which was pretty great.

That's super cool man really top stuff
How were the tacos?
That's some dedication

why do cons stink so bad bros

Again, not me. But those tacos looks like shit
>no onions
>no coriander
>probably didn't even put lime on them
>only meat and salsa

Even the shittiest cons can become cool if you just ignore the fact that most of the people there are failed normies.

My local con don't really stink but I have go to some that really does.
The fast answer is, it's hot, there's a lot of people and very little space, people sweat and they hang around in there for 3 to 8 hours.
Also, nearly all of them have melee tournaments. It's not a meme, melee players stinks

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any place that gathers a lot of nerds stinks user.

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Last year me and my pal finally went in full cosplay to a Con. I had my doubts because im a fucking beta of a man, but damn, it was awesome. Lots and lots of kind people asked us for photos, specially parents with kids. I do see the irony that I had to put on a mask to become more sociable. Oh well, baby steps.

You are my hero.

Probably not but hell I'm sure we both had fun at that con this year. Best katsu I've been to so far.

Also got this pic of me that's gaining traction in the Siege community

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>kids asking you to take a picture with them
I loved that as a cosplayer.
It's a shame that I could't hear a shit with my mask on.

I dressed as a very humanized rainbow dash back when ponycons were new. I had a good time but I don't think I've ever been in a group of people who wanted to fuck my in the ass that hard. It was kinda creepy and kinda cringy, but in the end it was fun.

How many Salon.com articles were written about your problematic behavior?

That's pretty great user.

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Nerds tend to smell a little bad but you don't notice it when they're out in public because most people shower and wear deodorant which drowns them out. Gather a bunch of nerds together though and the stink gets amplified 10 fold.

Does nerds stinks because they are nerds, or they are nerds because they stink.
I remember having really strongs body hodors when I was a teenager (deodorant didn't worked on me, my body hodor was that strong)
That made me an outcast for most of my teenager years, which made me take interest on nerd shit.

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deodorant basically works on everybody. You're either lying and you never put it on, or you're just a retard who thought spraying bodman on your shirt was "deodorant"

>deodorant basically works on everybody.
It worked, for the first 2 hours.
Don't call me a retard, please.

I LOVE CUC... ERR... COMIC CONVENTIONS!

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I mean, unless you are talking about the kind of stank that comes from now showering for a week.

Good god, are you the kind of person who never bathes and blames deodorant for your problems?

Do you know which documentary?

>Good god, are you the kind of person who never bathes and blames deodorant for your problems?

Nope. I just had hormonal problems.

>Muh Nazism
Cry more, fascist.

Ah, yeah, you are. Makes sense now. Deodorant works on anybody who takes more than one shower a week. Thanks for outing yourself as an absolute autist who is afraid of water.

A lot of people who already have questionable hygiene in a very hot building while maybe 30% of them wear portable saunas, also maybe a third of all the attendees are drunk as shit

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Me and my bro once went to NYCC as the Blues Brothers. People liked it, but pointed out we didn't have knuckle letter tattoos.

I went in a con dressed as the joker,i had the mask that came in that Death in the Family bundle
>"Wow that's a cool mask"
>Thanks i bought it...
Some kids were scared of me.
A Gay Gender Bend Harley Quinn flirted with me
I appeared in the news when they went to cover the con.
It was a cool day

Dressed up as LVL 1 RPG CHARACTER, with health bar over my head and stats and everything. I then sold my costume which was a shoulder pad, and a sword.

> weeb cosplay

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>Surprisingly nobody knew who I was or from what anime I was from lmao i can't believe it D:

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I simply don't wear them to cons where it's going to be hot. I save that stuff for the winter cons. I try to make skimpy costumes for summer.

I'm pretty sure I saw you guys, unless you were a group that didn't have a Valkyrie. I wasn't able to ask for a picture but want to let you know that I appreciate you lol

To be fair, male characters from anime have a real problem of being so generic its almost impossible to make them recognizable unless you already look the part to an unusual degree. They are, for the most part, intentionally bland designs in casual clothes to make them easy to self-insert as for the audience. The girls are always the ones to get distinct character outfits or visual designs that make them recognizeable.

Any girl can wear the costume and be recognizable as Zatanna, regardless of body type or even ethnicity. You might not be a GREAT Zatanna, but you are clearly Zatanna.

Shinji Ikari wears a white button up shirt and black pants. Thats not a costume, that's business casual.

Then they need to pick protagonists that aren't from shitty self insert wish fulfillment bullshit. Or just pick a shonen, those MCs have outfits that are usually so colorful and distinct you can be recognized as them even if you look absolutely nothing like them.

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I have a Jay Garrick outfit, which is almost cheating with how casual the clothes are. the hat is kind of uncomfortable after a bit, but it's pretty fun when people run up and ask for a photo.

He filled out. It happened to me.

There was a lady who kept a journal for about 10 years where she wore only latex, including a rubber Burqa, the entire time, and spent a whole year fully encased near the beginning.

It strains belief, but she kept updating it until her husband had a medical condition that left him partially paralyzed, and if the whole thing was a fantasy, I don't think she would have ended it that way.

Body heat. Enclosed spaces. Lack of ventilation. Also people are there for most of the day with no opportunity to shower off unless they're staying in the same building as the con.

Multiply that by the lack of hygiene that certain geeks exhibit...

Fortunately most cons I've been to smelled fine, if not wonderful, though I'm sure I didn't help the situation at DragonCon as I was coming down with something and started sweating buckets.

That are the best kind of tacos you ignorant. The flavor of the meat and salsa is all you need.

I've never been to a comic convention of any kind before. It probably wouldn't bode well with my social anxiety.

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>body hodor
Squirtle, I'm dying.

I've done a few cosplays but my favourite Yea Forums cosplay was Yugo from Wakfu, I was surprised so many people at AX recognised him. Maybe it being on Netflix helped a lot. I love seeing the variety of costumes too.

Nice mask, I'm doing one myself at the moment. What method did you do to go about it?

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Yeah. When I turned 25 I gained weight and working out made me too bulky to be cute.

uhhh yea, we know that you idiot.

Those are some fly as fuck Fingernails.

Holy shit, how fucking tasteless can you be?

I am too short to be taken seriously in a superhero costume.

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Is yugi hair the most un-cosplayable hair in all cosplay?

Rorschach and Wolverine are short characters, you could cosplay as any of them.
Spiderman is 5'10 but who gives a fuck, short spiderman looks cute.

Don't worry user I got you

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>who is wolverine

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Go as atom

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Wolverine is kinda shit to cosplay tough, isn't he?
You must have the haircut, and having the knife hands will either shitty, as you'll have to have it constantly out -since you cannot draw it back to the sleeveless costume- and security will constantly eye you as the guy who has real knives as his costume.
Or shitty plastic pieces.

You could just have your hand covered in semon while you cry alot.

>You must have the haircut
Wig motherfucker
If you're not using a wig already, don't even bother cosplaying

A wig will never beat an actual haircut.
And a cheap wig is very visible.

all characters are shitty to cosplay if your budget is low.
>You must have the haircut
no if you use a mask. If you plan to cosplay movie wolverine, yes, you need a certain look.

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Worked my ass off on a Mr Knight cosplay. Made little Moon throwing pieces and everything.

Everyone thought I was “White Deadpool”

Fucking normies. That’s supposed to be the one place people actually understand comics

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what's even the point of cosplaying a superhero if you aren't going to use a cool mask

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>A wig will never beat an actual haircut.
Yeah, if the character is bald maybe.

Real hair gets greasy/oily throughout the day, not to mention you can REMOVE a wig and style it 360 degrees. Even lacefront wigs turn out better than regular hair. Let's not even go into the fact that your hair might not be the same colour.

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I suppose you are right. Mask beats wig or haircut at every turn.

I went as Apollo from Ace Attorney last year. Only like two people recognized me, but i'm a lawyer so i felt obligated to do it at least once.

I fucking hate deadpool cosplayers
>arent I funny by saying lolsorrandum humor?
>arent i funny for doing a conga line?
>I havent washed my costume since last year so I stink!

I like to imagine the reason he's surprised no one immediately recognized him as even cosplaying is because on a normal day he wears flame printed cargo shorts and a leather trench coat so to him dressing like a normal human being for once seems like some easily recognizable costume.

oh fuck I know. They are definitely in my top 5 of the worst kind of cosplayers

Rorschach man, canonly he's an angry manlet in a hobo outfit.

I fucking hate the Deadpool conga line.
I remember being at a table with Tomasi, having a real cool conversation. Then all of a sudden his face gets disgusted like there’s some gross shit behind me.
I turn to see that godawful conga line being led by guys playing John Venda’s theme on brass.
Turned back to Tomasi in time to hear him say how this was the worst part of conventions. Gave him an aspirin for his headache.
Great guy. Nice to know the creators get just as irritated as I do.

WORST COSPLAYERS
5-EGL
4-ANY VARIATION ON STORMTROOPERS OTHER THAN CANONICALLY CORRECT STORMTROOPERS
3-DEADPOOL
2-SPIDERMAN
1-SLAVE LEIA

John Cena* goddamn autocorrect

“Haha I’m a fat guy but I’m slave Leia even though I’m a fat guy! So funny right? Wait till you see me tomorrow when I wear the same thing but with my Deadpool mask!”

I'm so fucking angry

I'm too short, chubby, and wide-hipped to cosplay any characters I know of with any degree of accuracy, but I love looking at all the outfits and learning about how people make them.

Your girlfriend lived my dream. There's not enough straight traps in the world.

Its only acceptable to gender bend if its wonder woman because her costume has dignity and she demands respect

bnha cosplayers that only buy a wig and some shitty uniform on ebay became one of the types of the worst kind of cosplayers in a really short time.

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Yep. The leven of laziness of those guys is beyond of what I initially thought.
Some local cosplayer girl from my town just re-used a green wig from another cosplay she did with the school uniform to cosplay gender bend deku. I think she also used some christmas lights on her first to imitate the ofa effect.
It would't make me so mad if she wasn't mad popular for her lazy cosplays on my city

>EGL
>cosplay

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>Portland

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White women dressed like pastel Victorian women then

Still not cosplay, it's fashion

>most liberal progressive lefty city in the country
>no black people

Really gets the noggin joggin

Oh, well I dont keep up with weeb shit so I'm ignorant about that stuff

Some people don't understand what deodorant does, know the difference between antiperspirant, or just buy cheap shit.

This photo is really cute if that really is her mom not understanding, but still supporting her hobby.

my mom made my batman cape and sewed the costume to the musclesuit.
supportive mom are the best

ass or gtfo

Would you also like some pictures of my feet?
Asking for a friend.

my local con had some some bad BO, most table top games places in my area tend to smell too. Then again there was also a rodeo show going on near by.

That being said, I had went to PAX south recently. And warned my friends it might smell musty in certain places. Surprisingly it didn't smell at all.

>Have you ever go to a comic book convention with a costume?

I've cosplayed a few times, once as a bleach character and twice as spider-man. granted I don't have much of a body. But going as spider-man. But my costume made up for it, getting attention was nice and can be overwhelming depending on who you cosplayed/how well your costume is.

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I've been trying to do more simpler and comfortable costumes. Last time I went as Waluigi.
I seriously want to do Pyramid Head again, though I had some issues. Really nowhere I could store my phone or wallet, or any shit I wanted to get signed. I ended up carrying around a backpack holding my shit instead of my great knife. Often I felt pretty limited, with the head and gloves it was a pain in the ass. I couldn't explore much of the convention myself or take pictures if I wanted to. Still I would hate not to do it again.

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Last year I went to Rhode Island Comic Con as Castiel, very low effort but a good amount of people got it, some people thought I was Constantine. Year before I went as Slowpoke in a bright pink onesie and that was fun, albeit hot as balls after a few hours.
Experience overall is really fun, there's always some interesting panelists and cool stars to get autographs from, most of them are super nice. Last year I saw a panel with Meatloaf and Barry Bostwick and that was awesome, Tim Curry was there but he couldn't really do much which was sad.
It's a fun experience overall and I recommend it for people who are hesitant

>What method did you do to go about it?

The helmet is made of foam, making heavy use of helmet patterns that I found online (search for a guy called EvilTed) as the base and then chopped down/added to as needed, and is two separate pieces. One is the actual helmet that sits on my head, and the second is a detachable faceplate that adheres to the front of the helmet.

The faceplate is held in place with magnets (4 points of contact), and there is a wire plug to connect the battery pack mounted on the back of the helmet to the LED tape strip on the front of the face plate.

I see out of the mask through the bottom half of each side of the faceplate, which is done via a thin layer of PETG plastic that I then layered on both sides with multiple layers of window tint sheeting. This creates a sunglasses like effect where I can see out but my face is obscured so long as there isn't a source of light inside my helmet. This gives me good sightlines where I can see directly ahead of me, have decent peripheral vision, and everything below that so I don't have any risk of tripping over stuff.

I wear a black, open-faced headsock under the helmet to reduce skin exposure to make it less likely that my face will show through the visor and to cover my neck and chin.

On each side of the helmet section are large holes, hidden under the supports for the pods on the sides there, with black window mesh over them. I also have a similar section on the back of the head. These allow airflow for heat venting, but the side ones are positioned to let me hear outside the helmet.

I wear a microphone clipped to my headsock inside the helmet with a wire running down to a speaker clipped to my belt, covered by my coat. That allows me to talk and be heard without being muffled by the helmet.

I have to apply a coating of anti-fog spray to the inside of the helmet before each day of convention to keep the visor from misting up from my breath.

Any other questions I didn't cover?

I went to one with my friends as batman and robin. We looked ridiculous but we had a great time.

>I am too short to be taken seriously in a superhero costume.

Antman.

Eh. A few years ago it would be the same thing but Naruto costumes instead. Kids gotta start somewhere, and its not like they are made of money or have developed the craft skills needed to make this shit themselves.

Its like the larval stage of the cosplay nerd.

Good spidey mask.

Oh neat, you're doing the magnet front. Great idea with the anti-fog spray too.

I was wondering if you built a full dome helmet and added details on the outside (like Volpin's Daft Punk helmets) or just did a frame (like I started), but it seems you took a different method.

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>not building a hatch into the helmet and storing all your shit in there

Yeah, looks like you have a fundamentally different architecture there. Looks like it should work, its just not something I have experience with.

Some secret tech that should probably help you anyway: qwikseal or other caulk is a lifesaver. You use it to fill in gaps or seams and smooth it over, its a fantastic way to level off or fill in all kinds of tiny (or not so tiny) imperfections in any cosplay prop. And then you just pint over it and its fucking invisible.

For sealing foam and giving it a smooth finish, use a heat gun or hardryer to seal the foam (it will turn kinda shiney), then coat it with a brushed on layer of mod podge. Let that dry and do it again. This will fill in tiny holes in the foam that didnt get heat sealed, and also firms up the outer layer of your foam and makes it a tiny bit more durable.

Then you spray the whole thing with a couple coats of plastidip, a kind of cheap rubber spray. The end result is nice and smooth, perfect for armor or other props that you don't want to look like they are made of foam.

After that its all a matter of painting. Dont assume that you can just spraypaint and call it a day, that's a great start but a little bit of edging and highlighting with some model paints will really make the features of your prop 'pop', and you can wash things with some grey or brown paint dilluted with a lot of water to provide a weathering effect if you want your think to look more used.

I think thats all the advice I have to give. Hope it helps!

Hooked up with a fat Power Girl cosplayer once. Got me into porkers

Oh, that's a lie. One more piece of secret tech:

If your helmet ends up a little too big and you think it is disproportionate to the rest of the costume? Buy shoulder padding and work it into your costume. Big shoulders make your head look smaller, so if your helmet is too big you can make it look better with a little optical illusion.

Thought about it. But I was kinda focusing on the look. Then I had to worry about the rest of the costume, robe, skin, gloves. Almost thought storing shit in this tumor thing he has sticking out. It's actually a plastic bag. Turned out to be the worst part of the costume. I sprayed it with some clear coat which ended up flaking, and it was real crinkly sounding.

Of course I forget to show it

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I have a pretty good time. People seem to love my Frozone, and Shadow man. Tommy Monaghan (Hitman) doesn’t get so much love, but I love the comics so it’s all good.

I generally cosplay more obscure/minor heroes and villains so while I don’t get compliments or stopped for photos as much as more popular cosplays might it’s really enjoyable running into people who also love the character. We usually end up talking for a while and it’s always the highlight of my cons.

Golden Age Atom Al Pratt is a short dude, and you'll get bonus points for doing a cosplay that few others would think of.

Not Yea Forums but me and my buddy went as Wayne and Garth and it was excellent

I cosplayed Mole Man few times. People thought that i am Dr Octopus. Without tentacles... With cape...

My first cosplay was a shitty Dr Doom (classic) costume. Surprisingly I was the only Dr Doom that year.

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Bit late but thanks for the advice

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In Melbourne the supernova pop culture convention is on at the same time as the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) General Conference

if you go on public transport on that weekend you'll see people in silly costumes sitting with mormons in their neatly pressed dress shirts and ties

it's REALLY fucking funny

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I LOVE COMIC BOOK CONVENTIONS!

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Nice

There was a straw poll on and yes, a few spend 12+ hours in latex at a time.

And exactly WHAT is it you do in costume??

Went as Boss. Surprisingly I was pretty comfortable despite the eyepatch. My girl was dressed as Quiet helping me around because I really couldn't see in that direction though.

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