Elaborate, life-affirming, fancy-dressed hi-jinks, including a brace of Doctor Who-a-likes and the Dude (3.09).
All the best bits from the Dublin Comic Con lovingly compiled by Graham Dillon.
Music: Fitz and the Tantrums – The Walker.
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Everything. As It Happens.
Pathetic. What happened in the past 5 years that has made it acceptable for grown men to behave like children?
fine gael / labour government
Haha, guess you don’t watch movies then or participate in halloween?
Fup off back to the daily mail you windbag pleb.
I watch films but I prefer dramas, not superhero crap. I don’t dress up for Halloween because it find it a bit ridiculous.
Well go eat your cabbage and spuds and restrict yourself to missionary position ye dry shite.
Misery.
And no-one ever taught you not to ridicule others because they enjoy things you don’t? That’s a bit sad.
miserable git!
Maybe he watches propper movies aimed at adults not something based on a comic ?
Christ on a bike, plenty of “propper” comics/graphic novels are aimed at adults and not all of them are about superheroes. No stranger than the football nerds dawning the jerseys of teams they don’t play for.
I think you meant to say……… aimed at “adults”
They type of adults who comment on internet forums.
Adults openly go around liking soap operas and soccer and CSI without shame or embarrassment or fear of persecution. I’d take Guardians Of The Galaxy over them any day of the week.
“pffttt. This is NOT a comic. This is a graphic novel I’ll have you know. Also, I am not dressing up in fancy dress, I’m a cosplayer”
Sure mate….
Guess they be hungry for all that catholic priest peen.
oh Mani!
you are the living end!!
“Mooney
August 12, 2014 at 3:35 pm
whats with the Mani butt kissing?”
and your point is?
I don’t have a point. I just thought it was better to hook up all of your words of wisdom in the one spot ;)
the concept of sarcasm obviously evades you
Mooney Goes Wild eh
oh no the avatar buddies are ganging up on me!
Isn’t it time you got one? http://bit.ly/1yrur0h
Sick burn brah!
Long history of it in fairness… 1920s…
Absolutely believe people are free to do what they want but this is just a wider piece of social commentary.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk
I suppose people learned how to have fun, be comfortable with what makes them happy and just be themselves.
Unlike you, who posts stuff on Broadsheet while slowly waiting for deaths cold embrace.
Nerd chicks are sexy though
That video is evidence to the contrary.
You didn’t HAVE to make yourself come across any worse than your already do, but you chose to anyway.
I guess I’d prefer my that kids be into cosplay rather than into sniffing glue, but only just
*I guess I’d prefer that my kids be into cosplay rather than into sniffing glue, but only just
Great stuff one and all. Well done for not listening to twats like Jock and doing what makes you happy. Also some very impressive costumes in there.
Cos-players are awesome. They’re smart, talented, confident, have their own sense of fun and don’t particularly care what others think. They have to put up with atrocious rudeness, sneering, leering and thick-headed, tin-eared mockery from people who think the sight of a costume is license to let out their inner sociopath and let rip with the sort of cruel, entitled abuse that would start a fight in any other context, but they don’t let that stop them enjoying themselves in a way that doesn’t cause the slightest bit of harm to anyone, but can bring joy and colour and good humour to anyone who appreciates them. Well done them.
This!
Love you!
Love them!
Yay!
But that is Ireland. Home of the sneer.
I happened to be in San Diego during comic con last year. Such a bit of craic. The effort people made was just unreal; great colour and excitemnt in the town. A really happy vibe on the streets. It can’t happen in Ireland because there is some tracksuit wearing mong roaring abuse at you for being in any way different. You don’t have to be dressed as Batman to face thier irrational idiotic ire.
As the old saying goes if you put an Irishman on a spit you’ll find another to turn him. We do so much better when we get off the rock. We are free from the twitching curtains and the empty headed galoots who for some reason are allowed to be the arbitors of what is acceptable. F**K Ireland and F**k the Irish we let ourselves down at every turn.
I also concur.
This makes me a bit sad to read.
Well said.
I concur.
The kid dressed as the medic from Team Fortress was the best.
ah nerds is there any level they wont sink to.
yours.
The dedication is impressive, but it all feels very… corporate? I think that’s what is a bit unappealing about the comics convention scene of the last decade. I guess I would hope that creative, obsessive kids discovering films and books and comics would grow into creative, obsessive adults who are interested in making their own. Which is not to say that all these people aren’t doing that as well! The scene just feels a bit like a sink that sucks a lot of creative energy into intellectual properties mostly owned by Disney and Twentieth Century Fox.
I feel like a bit of a curmudgeon writing this. I just want people to remember that they can make their own comics, films, characters, everything. We could use a lot more of them in the current climate.
Actually, I think its transformative, taking creative ownership of corporate properties and bringing them to life in a way that isn’t controlled or regulated and which doesn’t function as advertising but represents their own personal, imaginative interpretation of a piece of popular culture. Not everybody wants or even is able to make up their own completely original art, but lots of people want to engage with other people’s art in a creative way that goes beyond sitting and passively consuming.
That’s a fair argument to make. But judging by what’s shared online it appears the most popular costumes are the most accurate—most respectful of the intellectual property—and the most recent incarnation of the characters are generally the best represented. It’s certainly uncontrolled, but I’m not so sure it’s hugely transformative. But you make a good case. I do think that a lot more people have original art in them (haha, define “original”), than the exceptional artist narrative makes out, though.
Well, the most visible ones tend to be the current, instantly recognisable, faithful versions, but you don’t have to look far to find clever and creative versions, mash-ups, elaborate word-play, and fairly obscure and/or unlikely characters. Nor will doing something imitative ever preclude anyone from doing something original. Cos-play is part craft-work part performance, both of which can require oodles of talent. I think it’s life-affirming, myself, that corporate properties, often as lame as they are safe and tired, can come to life as a form of lively, personal self-expression. For some, getting the details right is what it’s all about, for others, playful subversion. If this is art, it’s pop-art, fleeting and frivolous, though created with a serious dedication, and should be enjoyed as such.
you make a great point grouse! And that’s why conventions like DCC and many there irish run conventions have such a large artists alley. In fact Lightening Strike Comics make a big appearance, as well as “Big Bastard” and they are both home grown and do great at cons.
Don’t feel bad for writing about the lack of homegrown talent. It can be true, but we all have to concede that its the big name stuff that gets a lot of fresh faces in to the con to then see all the great stuff that actually goes on! :-)
I’ve never been, and didn’t know that. I’m glad there’s some focus on local stuff.
I feel like a curmudgeon for reading it! :)
Chill dude
Ah Clampers, I’m chill. I tried to be respectful about it.
Well… you were that… you’re no Jock anyway :)
Wish I was there. Harmless creative fun.
Funny how the people who ridicule stuff like this get terribly excited by watching grown men in shorts kick a bag of air around a field for money.
As for the amount of beer bellies literally shoehorned into polyester replica jerseys?
Now that’s cos-play!
…gross-play
seeing as nowadays the tech geeks and nerds are the only ones with a disposable income all the salesmen and marketing prostitutes are bending backwards to please these guys. 20 years ago you wouldn’t see this kind of fawning from anyone on the mainstream. money makes anything cool.
Wow… your insight is amazing. How do you do it?
*stokes fire, pets dog, rolls over on carpet and plonks chin in hands, now staring up waiting for Nan’s story to continue*
Well jock… Let me put another scenario to you…
Grown men, woman and children, all spending hundreds of euro on outfits to support something they love! Meeting sometimes once a week to show support, Getting so passionate about their fandom they would actually fight on the streets over it…what is this weird thing you ask? Football.
Costumers are all about having fun and positivity! it’s just society has not yet classed it as normal. How about trying to appreciate something wonderful for what it is?
If society can accept thousands of people dressing like their favourite football club, why not people dressing like their favourite movie our cartoon characters.
+1
Don’t forget batein’ the tar out of baddies. They do that too.
Oh jock see what ya just did there? Your of the opinion there are only a few sad little geeky types hiding away in our rooms only coming out for events like comic con…..wrong. there are literally thousands of us.
Tell us please what you do for a hobby we’re just dying to know
Your kids mask has clearly restricted the blood flow to your brain. My point was clearly about the ubiquity of damaged grown men in kids costumes.
As for me, and I know you’re dying to make a personal attack, but it’ll endulge you all.
Rugby: playing watching.
Weightlifting.
Food
Decent film (arthouse stuff)
Hacking / coding interests
Did you accidentally tab over from Buy&Sell personals?
So you’re a bro?
Of the genus Broious Douchious.
“Decent film (arthouse stuff)”
Woohoo !
Come along to mine and we can do a movie marathon of Earaserhead, Baise-Moi and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer.
I’ll get dressed up as the hoover in Body Hammer !
There’s a Tetsuo II ?!!!
Is there a drill penis in the sequel?
Rugby is painfully boring, art house films are pretentious and you lift heavy things for enjoyment. See how easy it is to make fun of someone else’s interests? But what’s the point? We all don’t have to like the same things, that’d be awfully boring. Besides, it’s all just stuff to entertain ourselves and keep our minds occupied while we stumble our way towards an inevitable death.
Wow. Hadn’t realised dressing up had become so divisive.
only for redundant arseholes
Would it be awfully politically incorrect of me to point out a possible legal loophole that occurred to me during the clip.
If for example one wanted to organise a bare knuckle fight between two men who harboured a grudge etc. Instead of going down laneways and hiding from the law.
Simply dress up your opponents in super hero costumes!
Bingo.
Instead of an illegal fight – you have a convention!
I have no intention of making a personal attack I just wondered what amazing hobby you had that prompted you to insult someone elses and im not missing a point you said “pathetic”
And they ‘re kids costumes are they? Quick someone ring Fassbender, Jackman, Cavill, and all the other actors and tell them to stop immediately! It is you that is missing the point. When you can bring a smile to a childs face or make the day for someone with special needs just by dressing up as their favourite hero/villain then its the very opposite of pathetic.
It’s the following them home and setting up camp in their gardens that sets of alarms.
At what point were the terms ‘fancy dress’ and ‘costume’ replaced by ‘cosplay’? Some stage in the last couple of years I think. Why if you dress as a character from a contemporary movie like The Dark Knight, it’s called ‘Cosplay’ but if you dress like a character from a 1950 or 60s movie it’s called ‘fancy dress’?
Conclusion? Cosplay is a new bullshit word that seriously pathetic grown-ups use to elevate and validate their nerdy activity a tiny bit. ‘Cosplay’ Gimme a break.
The idea of dressing up when going to conventions has been around as long as the conventions themselves. Cosplay is actually a Japanese term, though there it’s more focused on anime and manga characters and cosplayers would be more likely to just hang around town and posing for photos than saving it specifically for going to conventions. It’s a bit of a step up from fancy dress. The costumes are often homemade and can take a lot of time, effort and creativity to make. It’s not harming anyone, it’s no stranger than any other hobby really.
It was originally coined in 1984. The video features many versions of Dr Who, a character introduced in 1963. Batman was created in 1939. Spiderman in 1962. (Thanks wikipedia!) As a concept, cos-play is more fully formed and well-established than you appear to be.
There were some great costumes there, didn’t think much of the fight scene though
The begrudgery on show for something that does no harm and brings plenty of joy to people is astounding.
Mate of mine went with his son, the 2 of them dressing as Star Wars characters. Spending time together designing and creating the costumes and having fantastic father-son time together, giving the kid memories that will stay with him a long time.
Some petty darkened minds in here. A bit of tolerance for things that don’t immediately appeal to yourself would change this country overnight.
That irritates me no end. Some 10 year old kid dressing up in star wars gear that has no clue about the films because they happeend 30 years ago. It’s all about he fathers little fantasy world and not the kid.
Sounds similar to a first holey communion.
We have DVDs. You can see the films on them and it’s great. My son likes the Star Wars, he had a birthday party with Jedi crap n stuff. I don’t have the heart to tell him he’s wrong and should be ashamed.
haha that’s just a great comment ;)
This event was awesome better than last year and the Umbrella Eire Division keeping the event zombie contained as we always do