Con pics...only a week and a half late!

Without really much further explanation (and really, no apologies--it's finals week), some images from this year's 2011 Emerald City Comicon. There were a few costumes I loved that I didn't get to capture, due to my camera being old and exceedingly slow (as well as being a battery-muncher, om nom nom), but I have some cosplay highlights regardless, followed by a few non-comics pickups.

Sunday Comics returns this coming Sunday, the 20th.

First, from the darkest depths of the internet, it seems Pedobear had ambled his way to Geek Heaven this year. I caught him just as an enthusiastic Harley Quinn was giving him a big ol' tackle-hug. She is obviously unaware of his sinister nature. Or is just, y'know, being Harley.

And here's a VERY impressive Dream (of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)--I had attempted a Dream costume myself some time back, but it didn't look nearly as good as this guy's. He even sprung for blackout contacts! Kept a good stiff regal posture too. Very nice guy, I had a little chat with him after snapping this.

Scott Pilgrim characters were understandably popular this year--I saw several Ramonas, a Stephen Stills, and a very well-done female version of Todd--but this was the only Roxie, and as my favourite villain from that series, I had to get her picture. For bonus points, she was traveling around with one of the more convincing Ramonas.

When this magnificent Luke & Layton duo (of the Professor Layton series of excellent puzzle games) learned I wanted to take their picture, Luke pointed and went, "Professor! That camera reminds me of a puzzle!" without missing a beat.

An excellent Agatha Heterodyne (of Girl Genius). There were actually a few Agathas there this year, which I was very pleased to see, but this girl definitely looked the most spot-on--she even had what looked to be functional versions of Aggie's exaggerated glasses!

Who knew Chun Li and Dr. McNinja would make such a cute couple? Certainly not I.

Moving on from costumes, here's one of two sketches Spike, creator of the webcomic Templar, Arizona, did for me. Both of them involve Reigan, my favourite character from it. Here she is on her lonesome...

...and here she is kicking yours truly out of the High Heaven, the establishment she works at. Reigan's interesting in that most of the reasons I'd find her abhorrent as a real person are what make her such an amusing character.

And lastly, here is the (AWESOME) painting by Sean Dietrich that I won in a raffle. This picture really doesn't do it justice--the blacks are very rich and the yellows and oranges are really bright and vibrant. At present, I don't have the wall space for it (it's pretty darn big!) but I sure can't wait till I do. This thing's gonna look great on a future wall.

[Holden Out.]