Big Apple Con 2022

The weekend of March 26 & 27, 2022 marked the latest edition of the Big Apple Con. I hadn't attended one of their shows since October 2010. But, with the awesome guest list that they had booked, I simply had to go!

The person I was most looking forward to meeting was the beautiful Shantel VanSanten. She starred in The Final Destination, The Flash, and more. On The Flash, she played Detective Patty Spivot, my favorite of all of the Flash's love interests on that show. She was a great character, as well as looking stunning and playing her role excellently. Anyway, she looks absolutely amazing in person!

Next up was Katie Barberi, another star that I was pumped up to meet. She's starred in many projects, but I know her best from playing Tangerine in the infamous cult favorite The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. I loved that movie, as a kid. I haven't watched since, though, and have no clue what I would think about it today. Anyway, I had a big childhood crush on her, and, as such, I was stocked to meet her! She still looks drop-dead gorgeous and was very sweet in person. Barberi was all smiles and had her adorable and sweet little doggy with her. I'm glad that she also was in the pic with us! 

Last, but most certainly. not least was the beautiful Michelle Harrison, who among her many roles, played Nora Allen/ the Speed Force on The Flash. She was so sweet and down to earth in person, that it was a complete pleasure to meet her. That and I absolutely love the way this pic came out. The lighting the photographer used was so good!

There was also a ton of cosplay on this day. I am sure that this is, at least in part, due to the fact that that they were having a cosplay contest later that day. I didn't cosplay, this time around cause I knew I was leaving early. Anyway, here are some of my favorite cosplays that I saw:

Finally, I didn't really get a lot of swag this time around, but I did, at least , pick up the new Punisher #1 (Alex Ross variant cover) and a Blu-ray of Ozzfest, which I scored for $10!

I had a good time, even if I did end up leaving by the afternoon. I plan on returning to this con and next time, hopefully, in cosplay. Did any of you guys go? If so what did you like the most? Did you meet any celebs? Let me know in the comments section below. 

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"Terrifier" Star David Howard Thornton Talks to Us at WinterCon 2018

At the 2018 edition of WinterCon, I had the pleasure of talking to actor David Howard Thornton (who was wearing one of the awesome and official shirts made by Terror Threads). He plays the evil Art the Clown in the best slasher movie of last year, the phenomenal and gory Terrifier. We got to talk about the movie and more.

You can see it in the video below:

Video shot and edited by Negative Pop

All photography by myself and Negative Pop

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WinterCon 2018, Part 2: More of the Best of Cosplay

As one might expect December 1, 2018 in Queens, NY, was fucking freezing. But, a cosplayer has to cosplay and media have to cover what is going. Alas, I was doing both and greatly enjoying myself, while, simultaneously freezing my ass off! But, then so were my fellow cosplayers, especially those in skimpy outfits.

Before I got to seeing and interact with them, I took the chance to sign and write a dedication/ message to Stan Lee. As many who grew up as a comic-book, especially a Marvel fan, Lee was a hero and more to me. His passing was heartbreaking to all of us. What I wrote may have been short, but it came from my heart.

What follows now, in this second part (you can see read the first part here) of more of the coolest and finest cosplay that I saw on that day:

DJing in the bitter was cold was awesome cosplayer The Tank, the Life Size Action Figure, doing a badass cosplay of Marv from Sin City.

 We are ready to open a whole can of whoop ass on some baddies!

I thought I was freezing, but I really felt for the following two lovely ladies, directly below!

Venom had a hold of Spidey! I had to do my best to save him! In all seriousness, this dude did a wicked cosplay of the anti-hero symbiont!

Jenna Daggers Cosplay made for an awesome and beautiful Black Widow. Her cosplaying kicked so much fucking ass!

The gorgeous Babs Butcher as Kate Bekinsale's character Anne Valerious from "Van Helsing". This such a beautiful and original cosplay!

The Punisher has a message for the Joker: eat your heart out! 

I loved this Spider-Man/ Captain America (below)! Plus, he was really cool.When I asked him if I could get a pic with him, he asked me if I wanted to hold the shield. I was like hell yeah! Really nice guy and a most excellent cosplay!

This was an awesome time, and I already cannot wait for next year's WinterCon!

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WinterCon 2018, Part 1: Celebrities and Cosplay

On December 1-2, 2018, the latest edition of WinterCon was held at the Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York. This convention has rapidly become one of my personal favorites. It is always a blast to go to, and this year was no different. I was on-hand as press on Saturday to bring you all the goings on. I should mention that I was also in full Punisher cos-play. If you're curious, it is my aunt who did my make-up. Anyway, on to my coverage:

The one celebrity whose autograph I got was Tsugutoshi Komada who played Jet Jaguar in the legendarily camp Godzilla Vs. Megalon. He signed my out of print Blu-ray of said movie.

Later that day, he was joined by Bin Furuya, who played Ultra Man. It was an awesome and fun panel that even had two cosplayers come up onstage and join them. This was a huge highlight of the con for my friends and me!

But, it wasn't just Kaiju fans that had a lot to rejoice, sci-fi, horror, comics, and wrestling were well represented at the con. And, speaking of wrestling Asuka was one of two WWE superstars on-hand (the other was Bray Wyatt) to meet fans and sign autographs. Of course, that bought out many wrestling fans, a few of which were in cosplay.

Star Wars fans had a lot to love as well. There guests from Star Wars: Rebels, as well as Colin Cantwell. Cantwell was the original concept artist for the first Star Wars movie. Cosplayers, including members of the 501 Legion, joined him in an epic picture.

"It's a trap!" Get it?

And, speaking of cosplay here are some more of my favorites at WinterCon:

 Yes, that is me, in my Punisher cosplay, battling Hella, who was cosplayed by Casterly Fox.

 This awesome and beautiful Jessica Jones asked me if she could pose with her Queen poster. As a fellow fan of the legendary band, I was like, "Of course, you can!"

 Beautiful Dizazter made for an awesome, badass, and hot Domino!  

Awesome cosplay by JellicleKacie, as Sabrina Spellman from Netflix's killer "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina". I LOVE her little Salem!

And, we end the first half of my report with these awesome cosplayers, who were in the full holiday spirit!

To be continued...

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