ComicCon Birmingham November 23rd 2014

We've been looking forward to ComicCon for ages.
Actually, we've been looking forward to ComicCon since the last time we were there in March! The Birmingham event takes place over two days at the NEC and features traders, speakers, signings, Robot Wars, the Star Wars parade, comic book artists doing live work and the famous cosplay performances at the close of day.


Vicky



Martha

Cosplay is fans of films, comics, manga, anime and/or computer games dressing up as fictional characters. More often than not, these costumes have been painstakingly created or pieced together over several weeks/months before the event. There were some 'off-the-peg' costumes in evidence but these don't command the same respect as an impressive homemade effort! Three of the gang were cosplaying today: Martha as a hunter from video game Left 4 Dead, Vicky as Eren Yeager - a character from Manga/Anime Attack on Titan, and Mouse was the Mad Hatter!
However, Martha purchased a fine looking mask and eye-patch combination and suddenly became Kaneki Ken from Tokyo Ghoul!

The queue was, as usual, a lot of fun as we spotted the many different costumes being worn by the fans. I spotted Batman, Robin, the Stig, a Borg, loads of Star Wars characters, an army of Jokers, a creeper from Minecraft, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, loads of Adventure Time characters (including male and female Finns) and countless Japanese characters that I simply hadn't seen before!

I made some comic books purchases, Harry found some sweets, Mouse found some artwork for her bedroom walls and Tilly bought a postcard for herself. Everyone managed to find something to take home!

The Cosplay performance at the end of the day could have been better timed - the winners were announced after ComicCon had ceased business, which meant that people were in a rush to leave. Start the performance half an hour earlier next time please, MCM? The performances themselves were excellent, and very brave of the young people involved - we saw Final Fantasy X characters, The Penguin from Batman, and Zap Brannigan from Futurama to name but three of the 25 acts involved!

But enough from me, here are the rest of the pics!



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