@g_man said:
@nappystr8: Sorry man, I just feel this is insulting. Do you Cosplay? Let's see some of your costumes. This is only a small number. Have you checked out Norm's full gallery that has over 575 pics?
I must have been in a bit of a mood when I wrote that, because it definitely came out more disrespectful than I had intended, but I strongly believe in the in the feelings that my words expressed. Personally, I find it disrespectful that people will just throw on any old costume to go to a comic convention. I'm not personally into cosplay, but the people who do it right creating costumes out of hard work and honest passion really make this hobby of ours so much more exciting.
I did just check out Norm's Gallery and it is indeed full of some really really great examples of cosplay done right, so I take back what I said about the Wondercon crowd as a whole. I still stand by my statements for the people to whom it applies to though.
Let me try to frame my opinion in a more constructive manner. In my experience, no one goes to weddings in a T-Shirt and nobody wants people in Star Trek gear showing up to a Renaissance festival. There are things that are situationally appropriate and things that are not. I just don't see how it is a appropriate to dress up like a character from an entirely grounded show like Breaking Bad that has widespread popularity and zero ties to comic books for a convention that is specifically geared toward comics. When someone dresses up for a comic convention they are either implicitly or explicitly asking to get attention from the crowd. It doesn't sit well with me that people who don't seem to have less love for comics than they do for greater popular culture, who put little creativity and/or effort into their cosplay, think that what they deserve attention over the people who spend months researching, sewing, sculpting, and so on.
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