12/20/2023 0 Comments Thought bubble costume![]() ![]() And how about that wig? Aww, Batman, you are a beautiful bride. It’s so clean, so bright, so graphic! Toriyama, you know your business. Classic Dragonball pooping pose for this A++ outfit. “Just squat then,” I suggested, and he did. “I’m quite heavy,” he said, when I shared my concept. WHO ARE YOU? I don’t think he’s even blind. I took her card, but I took a lot of cards. Isn’t the Dredd costume a classic? “Excuse me, are you in cosplay or just stylish?” She was the latter, and a fount of information about Doctor Strange and creative page layout. They gave me a powerful thirst for historic British comics. Last year’s regret REVOKED, just like my creative license. This chap, who answered to “scary man” though that may not be his real name, was in an original design featuring elements from word militaries over a wide breadth of history. ![]() It makes it harder to approach strangers (already a stressful idea). “Girls are my local community, at the school where I spend nine hours a day they can destroy me.” I mean, they can’t - I’m just experiencing a political hangover, and my perception’s all dirtied. ![]() Male peers… don’t exist in the same way that girls do. Seven years in an all-girls school set a sort of psychological trap, which I continue to increase my awareness of. I’m irritated and regretful, but it was a sexist thing. Dolt! I had ideas ready for Kitty Pryde (classic armpit phase/stab), the two Lara Crofts (archery advice), and Judge Anderson (arm wrasslin’), but saw the first three only once outdoors and couldn’t catch Anderson alone (I’m shy, especially with the law). For example, I cannot believe it took me until 10 am on Tuesday, post-con, to realise I should have gathered all the Bees (I saw no Puppycats, he must have been resting) into a hive. I had a harder time thinking of concepts for several of the characters being represented. ![]() There are a couple of reasons for this, and I’d like to share them (ethics!): I also didn’t manage to get many pictures with the women of Thought Bubble cosplay. Tiny barbarian girl! Little Thor! The ten year old Hilda whose eye I caught as she put her jacket on over the costume and took off the beret! A kinship moment. This KILLED ME, because they were absolute darlings. Lucky! I didn’t take pictures with the child and baby cosplayers, because I don’t want to put other people’s kids online. I only took photos for which I had “a concept.” You can find here is Captain America, here is Batman on any news site. I took a few pictures with cosplayers that I’d like to share with you. And the quality of costuming is high! Perhaps best of all, there’s no hint of that internet-y question: “is the focus really on the comics any more?” Yes, at TB, it totally is. Not overwhelming, and you don’t find yourself constantly, by accident, photobombing Jean Grey as she shows Darth Vader exactly why a force choke isn’t a nice thing to do. Thought Bubble does not have a very heavy cosplay focus it’s the sparsest UK con I’ve been to on the costume front and the majority of the attendants, I would guess, regard the living characters roaming around as a bonus rather than a feature. Much content coming on that subject! But that’s for later. This weekend just past, Kelly Kanayama and I were both in Leeds, at Thought Bubble: the UK’s premier comics convention? I can’t promise that’s a fact, but hot damn, it’s a great con. ![]()
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