Heart of Dorkness: Inside New York ComicCon
Last weekend's New York ComicCon took place during the New York Times' Travel Show, making NYC's Javits Center the number one destination for well-heeled tourists and pasty shut-ins alike. The sheer sensory over-stimulation of videogame demos, peroxide blonds with scary boob jobs and musky nerd stank is something you have to experience for yourself, but here are some visual highlights the team managed to get on camera. There were rumblings of a 400 lb. Spider-man in a 200 lb. Spider-man outfit and a ten-foot Hulk on stilts, but alas no photo confirmation.
Here's some of the best evidence for your amusement:
I don't think it's a requirement to wear Naruto costumes to play Naruto videogames, but it can't hurt. Unless you get destroyed by someone who isn't wearing a Naruto costume. Then it's just sad.
Okay, who let in the asshole with the sports jersey? Do comic book guys at these cons get the urge to wedgie the wannabe jocks?
Sean "Krod Mandoon" Maguire, India "Aneka" DeBeaufort, writer Brad Johnson and writer/creator Peter Knight from the upcoming Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. Sean is British, which is amazing considering that from all the trailers he comes across as your typical American dude-bro. The production team promise that the world is very rich in fantasy with roots in D&D, Conan the Barbarian and the works of Joseph Campbell.
My camera wasn't fast enough to capture this hula hooping Slave Leia in her full glory, but it was the closest thing to sex some conventioneers will ever experience.
The NY Jedi threw a fight. At one point this exhibition included an away team from the original Enterprise. I'm not sure it was scripted.
Hello Javits Center, please welcome your NY Jedi back-up band, Scrawny Predator and Darth "Skins" Maul!
I don't think real samurai got into the samurai spirit by draping cardboard plates over a rugby shirt.
There is no shame in getting choke-slammed by a Black Manta with 8" pythons. None at all.
This artist was reproducing the cover of "Watchmen" in chalk. I would have something snarky to say here except that it's like staring at the Sistine Chapel.
Fetts vs. Predator. In some quarters this montage is considered CANON.
These are officers of some kind, perhaps state marshals during closing time on the first night. I didn't have the balls to take a frontal picture because they were clearly looking for an excuse to kick all sorts of nerd ass.
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