Back from another claustrophobia-causing convention, this time the famed NC Comicon, in Durham, North Carolina! Click each pic below to enlarge!
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| Above: Ready to go! New shield! New helmet! Same old pants. |
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| Above: Buster wants to be "Canine Captain America!" Uhm... |
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| Above: Hard to miss! This must be the place… |
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| Above: Ready to hit the con floor! |
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| Above: Wolverine and Rogue are always happy to get a 3-hour lecture on con etiquette! |
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| Above: "Did I leave my keys at home?" |
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| Above: Me, with a great "Wednesday Addams" cosplayer! |
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| Above: There should be a law against putting that many mirrors in an elevator! |
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| Above: Amazing gender-twisting versions of Loki and Thor! |
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| Above: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! I'm joined by Hulk and Iron Man! At last! |
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| Above: It's my frenemy, Winter Soldier! |
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| Above three images: SHAZAM! A fabulous Captain Marvel cosplayer! Dig that detail! |
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| Above: I know I've seen this guy before somewhere... |
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| Above two images: Flash meets Flash! The race is on! |
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| Above: I meet Sharon Carter! "Agent 13" to those of us in the spy biz. Shhhhh! |
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| Above: Captain Kirk and Spider-Man enjoy the generous buffet spread! |
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| Above: I give famed Neal Adams an earful! "So, BATMAN: ODYSSEY. Really?" |
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| Above: Cosplayers gather for one of many group shots taken during the 3-day event! |
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| Above: Good ol' Nick Fury drops by! |
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| Above two images: Evil Ultron makes the scene! "Bring me the (shell)head of Iron Man!" |
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| Above: Steve Rogers and me! "Before and after?" He even carried his own 4-F papers! |
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| Above: Famed fandom friend Robert Clyde Allen stops to chat! |
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| Above: "Mine's bigger than yours…" |
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| Above three images: Unmasked at last! "Alas, poor Cappy, I knew him, Horatio..." |
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| Above three images: This amazing family came to the show as the 60s X-Men and sinister sentinel! What fun! |
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| Above: Me and my miss, flanked by two diabolical Daleks! |
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| Above: "You can text all ya want, honey, but I'll stick to my Silver Age GREEN LANTERN comics!" |
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| Above: A DR. WHO foursome! |
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| Above: What? Yet another Winter Soldier?! |
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| Above: The charity-minded Excelsior League lines up for even more photo shoots... |
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| Above: That tiny-titan Captain America did not want a thing to do with me! At first…. |
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| Above: Reverse Flash and Green Arrow attacking me? And, to throw a tiny Bucky doll at me? The fiends! have they no decency? |
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| Above: "Say, aren't you Batman?" |
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| Above three images: Meeting with the great Steve Barr (who runs the marvelous charity that provides art supplies and "chalk talk" visits to kids in hospitals), and his once-hospital bound young friend, Paris! |
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| Above: A nicely-staged pro pic, and... |
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| …the taking and arranging of the above power-packed pic! |
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| Above: Another guy who looks oddly familiar! And, we're each getting "photo-bombed" by some real oddballs! |
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| Above: Rocked by the Shocker! When have you ever seen this Spider-Man villain cosplayed? |
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| Above: "What a ridiculous costume!" |
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| Above: About sums it up! Sunday rolled around, and this was how everyone felt! Thanks to Allyson Bigley, Taylor Handy, and O'Brien Howard for contributing many of the above pics! |
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| Above: Just had to include this panel from a 1975 IRON MAN comic. "The more things change, the more they stay the same…" |
Happy New Year!
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