Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane.....Wait, why are you looking up in the sky? You can stare at it after reading this new blog post. lol I hope everyone is doing well. Today I went to the New York Comic Con. I wasn't going to post anything about today, but a twitter follower told me to take pictures of the best and worst costumes and I figured I'd share it with you. I know what you're thinking, the founder of Branded Baron who wants everyone to be stunningly fresh is a closet geek? Eh, sort of. My comic book knowledge has faded a bit, since I haven't really caught up on it due to other tasks(making sure Branded Baron becomes a success). Plus, comic books did help influence me to create my own illustrations and own designs. Every kid wanted to be a superhero at one point in their life. Last, Branded Baron is for everyone whether you're the coolest person on the planet or a geek of some sort. Being stunningly fresh is the attitude of confidence and is labeled to no group in particular, but owning anything Branded Baron shows you're stunningly fresh.
First, Comic Con is fun, but paaaaacked as hell. Every year it seems as it gets larger and larger. There's so much from seeing exclusive video games to new movies being promoted to anything comic book related. You'll see celebrities like singer Neyo(weird, I know), you'll see comic book greats, you'll see families, you'll see costumed fans, and more. If you wanted to see what was tweeted you can go to Branded Baron twitter profile and follow if you aren't already at
twitter.com/brandedbaron Here are pictures with a little excerpt. I apologize for some blurry pictures. I like to be on the move and I hate being in the way of people who are trying to get through a busy place, because I hate it when it's done to me. I try to be quick with anything touristy.
Am I the real Spider-Man?
They were promoting the Alien movie series that comes out in Blu-Ray. You could watch the trailer in one of the spaceship beds to see it and hear the sound even better.
Stopped by the
Seibei(pronounced "say-bay") booth to say hello to Dave. Cool guy and check out his site, there may be something you like.
Seriously, why was Neyo there? (Gray hat for those that don't know) I believe he was promoting his album.
The Michael Jackson video game booth. People were playing the demo which had the classic song "Beat it". It proves people like MJ and I'm not talking about Peter Parker's lover. See what I did there? A comic book joke. I know. I know. I thought it was a good one too.
Tiff getting ready to play Final Fantasy 14 demo.
She's creating her Final Fantasy 14 character
Just chillin outside rocking the classic Branded Baron Gamer t-shirt. Shall we bring it back for sale?
80's baby
Part of the DC Comics booth.
Comics!
Cyanide & Happiness-You know you like reading these funny comic strips.
You could've own your personal Cyanide & Happiness sketch
Good ol' MTV news was there interviewing Eric Bana.
Side view of actor Eric Bana
Some new computer fantasy video game
This was a cool demo that Intel had. Play while in a race car.
This artist was chalking up some Yu Gi Oh art on the ground. This was hot.
Cool sculptures
Tiff didn't end up getting this Stitch(from Lilo & Stitch) hat, but she got one similar.
Not in this picture, but I've been compared to actor Chris Evans(playing Captain America and played Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four) and decided to take a picture with the shield. Captain America for the win.
Lou Ferrigno the original Hulk
Brandon Dicamillo of CKY & Jackass. He posed, but I moved and made the picture blurry. He went back to signing and I didn't want to bother him to ask for another pose. He probably would've been cool with it.
Animal Planet booth, they had someone dressed in a Yeti costume walk around.
Cool look statue
Real cool looking poster print I bought from Erik Jones. He has some cool artwork. A heads up before you check out his site, some of it is NSFW(not suitable for work)
http://www.theirison.com/
Where's Waldo? lol'
Now time for the costumes:
It's creepy, because that's a guy.
Batman with villains
Someone seems to always dress up as Chewbacca. Dude must have been sweating like a beast.
Fellas, might think she gets the automatic win for best costume. lol
Yes, there are females at this convention that aren't brought by their boyfriends.
Add spidey into the mix and there's a fun date.
Magneto
I thought this was cool. I didn't realize it was a terrible picture. Grr. Smart move if you're in a wheel chair to go as Professor X.
As long as it wasn't a storm trooper
Fairies
Outside
Snake Eyes and ...
Ares god of war
Strike a pose
He has a rubber chicken! Scary!
Not the greatest Chun Li
Better Chun Li, but blurry. I saw another woman dressed as Chun Li. I want to see someone dressed as Chun Li rocking the
Chun Lis
Cable
Old school Captain America
There were a bunch of Super Marios and Luigis, but this one had a Yoshi
Kill Bill live
KICK ASS
The Winner of the worst costume that I saw and from the ones in these pictures is...
The girl in the box. She had something written on the front, but all I thought when I saw her was, "That's a terrible costume. I think I found the winner."
If you're wondering why I didn't take any pictures of Star Wars geeks besides Chewbacca, it's simple, I don't like them. Chewbacca's costume was quite impressive, since that guy has to be in sweating and it's rare to see a tall guy dressed up in some furry suit. The movie is cool, but it's not earth shattering and not that amazing. The fact that George Lucas is continuing to milk it in 2012 when he starts releasing the movies in 3D is ridiculous. It's only a movie, it's not life changing. The same goes with trekkies. Also, if you're going to dress up as a Star Trek character, why dress up in the red costume? The guys in red are the ones that always die. I did see Stan Lee, but you had to get tickets to meet him and they may have been sold out. There were a lot of people there.
It was fun and even if you don't like comics it'll be entertaining. I have to say it was a bit overwhelming. It's cool and I told my friend Sean about it who's going for the first time tomorrow and it was hard to tell him everything. It's another thing that was fun to do in New York.
Stay no less than stunningly fresh,
Joe
P.S. Did you know that originally Superman did not fly? He was able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
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