Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover:
The following photo collection, to be curated and presented here in two parts, was previously shared elsewhere online [in 2011], but never on a site I could call my own…until now. Midlife Crisis Crossover wasn’t created until a few weeks after C2E2 2012; thus it’s my pleasure to present to you, the Viewers at Home, this retrospective of our first C2E2 — chiefly, pics of some of the most interesting costumes we witnessed. For the average con attendee, the costumes are one of the most fascinating, creatively engaging aspects of the convention experience.
Last time we focused on some of the good-guy costumes we encountered. Now it’s the bad guys’ turn. Darkseid, Shredder, and Dr. Doom bid you welcome and insist that you submit or else.
Like the World’s Finest team we saw in part 1, traditional Penguin is another classic for viewers young and old.
If you only know of the Kingpin from the film version of Daredevil, this one may be lost on you. This is a dead-on recreation of John Romita’s original design, complete with superfluous cane and trademark cigar that in today’s world would earn him an instant PG-13 rating.
We’ve been told Electro will be one of the villains to appear in the Amazing Spider-Man sequel, to be played by Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx. It’s a safe bet that Foxx will not be sporting the Steve Ditko headgear, but I had to award bonus points to this gent for the LED faux-electrified grip.
Mojo is an otherdimensional tyrant and TV executive who tangled with the X-Men a few times back in the late ’80s and was designed by an intermittent but influential artist named Arthur Adams. Sebastian Shaw was the character Kevin Bacon played in X-Men: First Class, except without his traditional Inner Circle retro-England garb correctly worn here. Now I don’t have to imagine what a Mojo/Shaw team-up would look like, but I’m not convinced it would last long before egos clashed.
Another one of my favorites from this year: Black Adam, longtime arch-nemesis to SHAZAM!, a.k.a. Captain Marvel.
I’m neither a Doctor Who fan nor a hater, but I’m guessing people like old-school Daleks. Behold, then!
To this day I have no idea what this was supposed to be, but I had to commend him for staying in character. He shambled around, hunched over and jabbering nonsense. If you tried to approach him, he recoiled. If you took his picture, he made happy animal sounds. (I hope he was just playing a character, anyway…)
Dieters of the world, beware one of your several thousand sworn enemies: free samples of addictive Japanese fruit candy! Do you dare negotiate with their giant-sized living spokesmodel?
This is an Uglydoll. They had a booth at the con. They seem mostly lovable.
Rather than an ending in which the bad guys win, we’ll conclude here with a couple of surprise hero types: a Tron warrior and a Na’Vi from Avatar, each representing for movies as counterbalance to all the comic book folks.
I have more 2011 pics if the public demands an encore, including photos some of the comic-book creators I met, but I tried to winnow down the collection to a manageable size, plus I omitted several blurry shots. That hideous red carpeting did us amateur photogs no favors.
Gentle reminder: C2E2 2013 will be held April 26th-28th at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center/ Plenty of tickets are still available! Rest assured MCC will do its part to share the experience. (Expect a C2E2 2012 retrospective before then, too.)
