ECCC...

This weekend was Emerald City ComiCon. I went yesterday and it was pretty fun. I didn't get there until about 4 or so, but that still left 3 hours to walk around. There was some pretty cool costumes and some terrible ones too. My favorites were to the two guys dressed as Venom and Anti-Venom. Of course there was the regular costumes like Darth Vader, Storm Troopers and Bounty Hunters. Sadly, no one was dressed as Dog the Bounty Hunter. The cutest was a little girl that was maybe 4 dressed as Wonder Woman. There were a couple other kids dressed up too, but she was the cutest. There were too many bad ones to really pick the worst, but I'll get into that one in a minute. There were more costumes, I thought, than last year. But I could be wrong.

So, I already mentioned Venom and Anti-Venom. I don't know why, but I really liked those costumes. I saw a couple Deadpools and even Lady Deadpool. Too bad no one thought to do Kidpool or Dogpool. That would have been pretty cool. I saw Kick-Ass, which is pretty easy costume to do. There was a Hitgirl, which was not really that great. There was a Ramona Flowers, which like Hitgirl, wasn't that great. There was a Hellboy and even a Hellgirl. Both of those were pretty good. I thought there would be more aliens from Star Trek, seeing as how William Shatner was there. There was a couple of Predators, one being better than the other. The oddest one I saw, and I still can't figure it out, was someone dressed as a German Shepard. That one boggled my mine. I have no idea what it was from, unless maybe it was suppose to be Rin Tin Tin.

As I said, there was more than a few bad ones. It wasn't necessarily the costumes that were bad, but more the people who were wearing them. I know that part of the fun for some people is dressing up like your favorite character, and that's cool. And maybe it's comic books unrealistic portrayal of women characters that ruins that for me. If you've ever read a comic book or graphic novel, you'll know that the women are very well endowed. Especially ones like Emma Frost, who is known to where some of the skimpiest outfits. So, when I see a flat chested, unattractive girl dressed up like her, I'm not really a big fan of it. Granted there isn't many women that can pull off the Emma Frost look. A few of the other bad ones was a chubby girl dressed as the Scarlet Witch. Again, I have no problem with you dressing up, but if you don't look good in spandex, please do us all a favor and dress accordingly.

After ComiCon was over, they had a panel with Rainn Wilson and the director of his new movie, Super. It was a really fun panel and even had an appearance by a couple of the local "Superheroes." The trailor for the movie was good and made me really want to see it. It opens nationwide April 1st, or if you live in Seattle, April 15th, so if you have a chance go find a theater that is playing it. It's a low budget film, so it might be hard to find it, but it looks like it will be well worth it. After the panel they had a meet and greet, but you had to purchase those in advance, so we didn't get to meet him. That's okay though. Before we left I had to say hi to and meet a few of the people from the BJ Shea Morning Experience, which airs on 99.9 KISW from 6-10am Monday-Friday. I originally was just gonna say hi to Vicky Barcelona, who has a podcast called Intern Radio, but figured we could say hi to BJ Shea, The Rev and Mono Nick as well.

Afterwords, we headed to Laughs Comedy Spot to see Myq Kaplan, who was hilarious. Check him out if you get a chance.

Overall, it was a really good time, and I can't wait until next year. Hopefully I'll be able to get there a little bit earlier so I can see some of the other panels and meet some of the guests.

Bye for now...