Sunday, I had three major goals. Meet Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, get something signed by Justice League artist Kevin Maguire and take as many cosplay pictures as possible. I was successful on all three counts. But as I worked on editing pictures the night before, I decided to add another goal to the day - premiere a cosplay I had joked about doing but never seriously contemplated.
Why not? Well, it was a cosplay idea that spun out of a joke between friends on Facebook. But then I figured - what the hell? Anyone who gets offended by my doing an intentionally cheap cosplay based on a joke that made a lot of my friends laugh isn't worth considering. I'm not disrespecting all the people who spend a lot of time and money and effort on their costumes - just having a laugh at a figure who could stand to be taken a bit less seriously.
So that is why I cosplayed Alan Moore.
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And for those of you who are wondering why Alan Moore is reading a Little Lulu comic, it's a reference to Alan Moore's cameo on The Simpsons, playing himself in the episode "Husbands and Knives".
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Of course there are dangers in being Alan Moore. For one thing, it really annoys the Oracle cosplayers.
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"I told you! I wrote The Killing Joke as an Elseworlds! DC Editorial made it canon!"
"Don't care. Leave. NOW."
Actually, that's my friend Dianne - who was part of a group of ladies who were recreating Adam Hughes' Women of DC print. We'll be seeing more of them a little later on. But before I got pictures of them, I was lucky enough to get a number of other good pictures.
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Judge Anderson from 2000 AD and a young lady with a most creative costume - a classic comic-book version of herself. Her dotted-make-up was meant to simulate four-color printing.
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Edward Kenway from Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag.
![](http://imageshack.com/a/img203/2862/dea6.jpg)
Jayne and Kaylee from Firefly.
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Doctor Midnite.
![](http://imageshack.com/a/img196/3704/06aq.jpg)
Harley Quinn
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Harley and Ivy, together again.
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I took a picture of this Drow lady a year ago. Alas, it seems her cosplay group that I linked to last year no longer exists. Still a great costume, though.
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