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Skele-Gore skull

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:47:30 +0000

Spotted today at New York Comic-Con, "THE 17,000 SINS OF SKELE-GORE" from Scarecrow Oven. Sadly, it is sold out. Let us hope for a restock.

THE 17,000 SINS OF SKELE-GORE

San Diego Comic Con Roundup: Day -1

Jamie Frevele — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:12:14 +0000

Unfortunately, I am not at San Diego Comic-Con to cover it because, well, I am in New York. But in my travels through the internet today, I've found some interesting developments leading into Preview Night tonight. For starters: a logo for the new Evil Dead.

• Bleeding Cool found a banner for the remake--shooting right now--which has Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell on board as executive producers.

• Geek Tyrant has the trailer for the Trekkie documentary , William Shatner's Get a Life!, which is screening at 7:00 PM local time.

• Bleeding Cool spotted all the suits from Iron Man 3.

• io9 has a super-detailed flow chart about where everything is at SDCC and how to find it depending on your mood.

This is barely an amuse-bouche for the crazy feast of nerditude that is about to come our way: the show opens tomorrow. Alas, I'll be watching from the opposite coast.

Twilight fan struck, killed by car at Comic-Con

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:07:35 +0000

A 53-year-old female Comic-Con attendee who had been camping in front of the San Diego Convention Center so she could get into the popular “Twilight” panel was hit by a car and killed today.

Cosplay of excellence: Gender Bent Justice League

Xeni Jardin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:32:10 +0000

Liz Ohanesian covers counterculture, cosplay, and cool music for the Los Angeles Weekly. She hit Comic-Con with photographer Shannon Cottrell, and came back with some great photo-essays. "I thought you might be interested in seeing our favorite cosplay of the con," she writes, "they're The Gender Bent Justice League." Above, Kit Quinn as Superma'am and Tallest Silver as Batma'am.

Gender Bent Justice League is a group of cosplayers who have taken characters associated with DC's Justice League and transformed them into something that is more Rule 63 than it is crossplay.
"A couple of us like to do female versions of preexisting male characters. One of our friends, Psykitten Pow, she had a female Flash," says Tallest Silver, who organized the group and who dresses as Batma'am. "One night, we were all hanging out and I said how funny it would be if we had a whole Justice League with swapped sexes."