Next year the boys and I will storm the comicon dressed in full gear and ready to look the part. I dropped some cash on a variant Red Hood helmet by an awesome California artist named Tamara Jones who runs an etsy called Shop the Mystic. I’m shamelessly name dropping here, and I didn’t even get a discount. It helps that she’s fantastic. Despite all that I’m feeling a bit of buyer’s remorse from the show.
Beyond the mask I put down cash on several ultra sabers, which are light sabers that look movie real and you can actually fight with. The boys tested that theory several times already. They are blunt, so nobody drew blood, but the light show was pretty amazing. Expensive, but amazing.
The best part of the con was the joy of watching all of the people in their costumes and watching my boys ooh and ahh and ask about getting dressed up next season. The worst was jacking into Amazon and recognizing opportunities where I could have saved a lot of money.
You pay for the experience I suppose.
Some Thoughts:
- While we are on the subject of gun-toting vigilantes in the vein of Batman, 1854 is the year Smith and Wesson got around to patenting the metal bullet cartridge only two years after setting up shop. The patent helped them grow their empire to the behemoth it is today.