Alamo City Comic Con Pt 1

This past weekend I had the pleasure of going to Alamo City Comic Con.  It’s the closest Comic Con we can conveniently get to, and it was made all the more affordable by the fact that our Saturday passes were given to us as an awesome anniversary gift from my in-laws.  It was only the second year for ACCC to take place, but it seemed to run pretty smoothly, and was of course a whole lotta fun!

So first things first.  Did I dress up?  Heck yes I did!

I kept it super simple and went as Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.  Simple as it was though, I felt bad ass.  I wasn't sure how recognized I’d be, it not being as mainstream compared to most of the other fandoms that were represented, but I was pleasantly surprised by all the “Nice Death”s and “Hey Death, can I get a picture”s I got.

The trickiest part of this costume was the hair.  I was not inclined to dye my hair black at this point in time, which of course meant a wig.

Here's the wig I bought, and how it turned out.  I know it’s not quite the wild tresses of the comic, but I was pretty happy with it given it was the first time for me to cut and style my own wig.

My husband humored me and also dressed up.  Kind of. 

Despite the 'lite' version of his cosplay, it made me happy that he liked my suggestion of going as Destruction.  While he doesn't mind dressing up, my husband really didn't want to do anything that involved shaving his beard.  So even though Destruction was definitely not known to many of the people who recognized me, it met our own geek needs.

Not only did I enjoy dressing up, I enjoyed seeing the costumes of my fellow geeks.

There was this power trio…and some random guy.

He heard my nostalgic squeal from much too far away…

I didn't come across any Storm Troopers, but this guy was lurking around.

Anyone else want to defeat evil and have s’mores?

Death met a Reaper.

Go go Power Ranger!

While this is just a small sample, there still weren't quite as many cosplayers as I thought there would be.  But there is no denying plenty of geeks came to celebrate their varying joys and fandoms.

It seemed like a pretty good turn out, and I'm sure it's only going to get bigger as this convention amasses more guests and publicity.  Big or little though, it was a ton of fun.

What did we have so much fun doing?  Next time I'll go into more detail about this years draws, and the goodies that were seen!