{"id":4975,"date":"2020-06-17T02:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T09:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuraijosh.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2020-12-04T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T10:08:06","slug":"cosplayers-of-la-comic-con-2019-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuraijosh.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/cosplayers-of-la-comic-con-2019-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosplayers of LA Comic Con 2019 Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’m late with this, but like all that San Diego Comic Con stuff I was struggling to get through, I was just in a difficult place at the time. I was proud of myself for getting the pictures of all the generic stuff I saw while walking around LA Comic Con up in a relatively reasonable amount of time and I really thought I would have been able to keep that momentum going in terms of getting stuff done but then things got crazy and I just got buried.<\/p>\n

2019 was a really busy year for me, not just with what was going on in my personal life, but also in terms of traveling to generate content for my site. In 2019 I went to C2E2, WonderCon, San Diego Comic Con, D23, and LA Comic Con. Out of all those conventions I honestly think that LA Comic Con had some of the best cosplayers out of all those conventions and that includes San Diego. San Diego is the gold standard when it comes to comic book conventions, but honestly, I feel it was a quantity versus quality situation. San Diego just brought out too much and as a result it took a lot of digging and searching to find some standout cosplayers while with LA the standouts were a lot easier to find.<\/p>\n

When searching for cosplayers at conventions I’ve made it a point not to just look for people who do an amazing job on their costumes, but also to find people who either put a unique spin on their characters or choose to dress up as the last characters you’d expect, either because they’re from an obscure or forgotten series or franchise, or they are just the last characters you would think somebody would dress up as and I feel LA Comic Con really brought it those categories. I don’t know if it’s because LA Comic Con is so close to Halloween and the cosplay costumes double as Halloween costumes or maybe it’s because LA Comic Con is so late in the year that it is the last con of the year for so many people and that it is their last chance to get their costumes perfected but there was no shortage of high-quality craftmanship or uniqueness at LACC.<\/p>\n

I keep going on and on about how unique and impressive the costumers were but it’s probably best I just show you.<\/p>\n

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A Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop<\/em> minus the red shirt. I almost want to be a stickler for her not having the red shirt but to be fair Faye doesn’t really wear the red shirt all the time in the series. In fact, if you look up Cowboy Bebop: The Movie<\/em> you’ll see Faye on the DVD box cover without her red shirt. Really good job with the lavender stockings and the garter\/suspenders that Faye wore underneath her suit, details that I feel many amateurs would surely overlook and forget.<\/p>\n

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Fiona from Tales From the Boprderlands<\/em>. One thing I like about Borderlands<\/em> is that the creators rendered it in a way to make it look like an animated comicbook, and I really love it when Borderlands<\/em> cosplayers go that extra mile to add that comicbook look to their costumes and make up like this young lady has done.<\/p>\n

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Here is Lakitu, or as he is known in Japan, Jugem, the Koopa who rides around in the cloud and acts as the flag guy in the Mario Kart<\/em> series. I’ll admit this costume is a bit half-assed but I do want to give him some credit for choosing to do a character many would never think to do.<\/p>\n

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White Raven and Starfire from Teen Titans. I really love it when people go the extra effort by painting themselves for their costumes, although I am a bit disappointed with Raven for not remembering to do her hands.<\/p>\n

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Here’s those two having some fun. While it’s cool to have cosplayers do poses appropriate for their characters the last couple years I’ve been wanting to be more artistic by catching people in more casual moments, or encouraging them to have fun in front of the camera like this.<\/p>\n

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A female version of Venom. She probably should have done a better job with the spider logo but she really nailed the mouth with the big ass teeth.<\/p>\n

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I applaud her dedication for being willing to walk around all day with the fake teeth on her face and boobs.<\/p>\n

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Here’s some generic X-People. You got Jubilee, who I’m assuming is Domino, Rogue, Storm, and Emma Frost\/White Queen.<\/p>\n

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A version of Beetlejuice heavily inspired by the Tim Burton movie. The mold around his face is a good touch and something that I’m sure most would overlook.<\/p>\n

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A SHIELD agent and War Machine.<\/p>\n

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This girl had me do a second take before I realized who she was. She’s Moe from the Simpsons episode Bart Sells His Soul. In that episode Moe tries to change the image of his bar by changing and rebranding it into a family-friendly theme restaurant called “Uncle Moe’s Family Feedbag.” Unfortunately for Moe the pressure of running the restaurant along with abuse from his customers causes him to snap, alienating his customers and forcing him to change the bar back to what it originally was.<\/p>\n