Akron Comicon 2014 Review Part 2: Costumes and Cosplay

I saw a ton of great cosplayers walking around all day! The day ended with the costume contest.

 Deadpool vs. Deathstroke

 Jessica Rabbit

 Who you gonna call?

 "I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!"

 Leeloo and Captain Kirk

 The REAL Lobo! (Don't call me Gene Simmons!)

 "I am Groot!"

Gaslight Joker.

Boba Fett and a Jawa.

 Captain Eyeball!

 Thor, Black Widow and Loki.

 Sonic and Mario.

 The Question.

Adult male winners.
1. Captain Jack Sparrow
2. '89 Joker
3. Scarecrow

Adult female winners.

1. Poison Ivy

2. Robin 

3. Black Widow

Young boy winners.

1. Robot Ares 

2. Casey Jones 

3. Starlord

Young girl winners.

1. Gameboy

2. Phoenix 

3. Wonder Woman

 Best overall costume winner - Ghostbusters family.

Ivy and Scarecrow.

 '89 Joker

Robin

Akron Comicon 2014 Review Part 1: Guests and Autographs

I spent this past Saturday at the Akron Comicon. It was the third year for this show and it gets bigger and better each year. I'm going to review it in four posts because I like to take lots of photos. :)

For more info visit their website and Facebook page.

Part one is the guests and autographs.

Comic book artist Joe Rubenstein.

ROM #1 and The Micronauts: Special Edition #1 autographed by Joe Rubenstein.

Joe Rubenstein autograph.

Comic book artist Ron Frenz.

Ron Frenz autograph.

Ron Frenz autograph.

Golden Age comic book artist Allen Bellman. He drew Captain America in the 1940s and 50s.

Sub-Mariner print autographed by Allen Bellman.

Comic book artist Mike Gustovich. Creator of the superhero team Justice Machine.

The New Mutants #3 autographed by Mike Gustovich.

Comic book artist Jose Delbo.

Superman print autographed by Jose Delbo.

Comic book artist Graham Nolan. He co-created Bane.

Comic book writer Gerry Conway. Co-created the Punisher and Firestorm. Wrote the death of Gwen Stacy storyline in Spider-Man.

Comic book artist Chris Sprouse.

Comic book artist Joe Staton.

Comic book artist Mike Witherby.

Gerry Conway, Chris Sprouse, Joe Staton, Tom Batiuk, Graham Nolan, Tony Isabella.

Akron Comicon 2014

The Akron Comicon is this weekend! It's in its third year and I'll be there on Saturday. The show is getting so big they had to make it two days instead of one! The Akron Comicon will be held at the historic Quaker Station in downtown Akron. I'll be sure to take lots of photos! :)

Here's this year's guests:

Dave Aikins
Carter Allen
Aaron Archer
Darryl Banks
Mike W. Barr
Tom Batiuk
Allen Bellman
Andy Bennett
Craig Boldman
George Broderick Jr.
Broken Icon - featuring Todd Beistel, Tristan Kelly & Eric Watkins
Chris Charlton
Dustin Carson
Gerry Conway
Jose Delbo
Fantastic Storytyme - featuring Brett R. Pinson & Kevin Leen
Sean Forney
Ron Frenz
Mike Gustovich
John Haun
Hazzum Productions - featuring Rodney Fyke
Tony Isabella
Kevin Kuder
Rick Lozano
Dirk Manning
Graham Nolan
Ohio Chronicles - featuring Lee Smith
Michael Perczak
Joe Rubenstein
AJ Sabino
Scottcomics - featuring Scott Bachmann
Tyler & Sara Sowles
Chris Sprouse
Joe Staton
Paul Storrie
Marc Sumerak
Wayward Cross Comics - featuring Landon Franklin
Chris Yambar
Thom Zahler

Halloween Clearance and A Thank You

I want to thank everyone who visited Wonderful Wonderblog during The Countdown To Halloween. Halloweentime is probably my favorite time of the year and I love sharing spooky stuff on my blog! I hope I entertained at least a few people with my posts. I think I have enough Halloween cutouts to do this again next year. Thanks again for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Of course I hit some of the after Halloween clearance sales. I was hoping to find one of those four foot, pre-lit black Halloween trees. I saw them earlier in the month, but I'm too cheap to pay full price. :)  Of course there weren't any left. But I did buy some ornaments really cheap. I might just pay full price next year for one. Here's what I got --

Cool Costume: Leg Lamp From A Christmas Story

This is the last of my Halloween posts and the first Christmas post for 2014. :)

Halloween Cutout # 33

Eureka USA

How I Spent My Halloween

10 years after I first wore it, I broke out the Uncle Fester costume again. I shaved my head and chin and went to work for the annual Halloween costume contest.

There were a few other pretty cool costumes.

My favorite costumes (besides myself) was Flo from Progressive, pregnant cheerleader and Cleopatra.

But, in the end I was chosen as the winner! Yay! I got a $25 Visa gift card.

I couldn't actually work while wearing the costume and not wearing my glasses.

So, this is what I liked like while I worked.

Later, the wife and I went to Longhorn Steakhouse.

Nobody seemed to notice that I was in costume.

We ended the night with a beer at the bar my son works at.

He was dressed as Ezio from Assassin's Creed II.

All in all, it was a pretty good day (except the working part).

How was your Halloween?

Cool Costume: Vincent Van Gogh

Halloween Cutout #32

Who says Halloween has to end on the 31st? It's the Halloweekend!

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