Fans,
Friday afternoon I was able to attend the Boston Comic Con on a day pass. The costume display was phenomenal. I saw Queen Maleficent, multiple Spidermen (some of them female), Thor and Loki, a number of Death Star troopers, this one inventive lad in a sort of evil scarecrow costume on chrome stilts with ferrules on the bottoms, several very odd people (mostly female, again) in these colored leotards that entirely covered the face, Spy vs. Spy from the old Mad Magazine comics.... I'm sure I'm forgetting many. A lot of the costumes were for characters I do not know of course. There was even a fully operational TARDIS in one corner.
I wore a Dark Shadows t-shirt and got reactions from several people. This was a total surprise. I really was not in the mood to attract attention, but a volunteer at the reg desk immediately recognized it and commented upon how cool it was. (This was one of Julia99's beautiful "Grayson's Legion" shirts.) The reactions varied throughout the day but were overwhelmingly positive. Perhaps the strangest was from this very friendly dealer from whom I purchased a 1960s copy of MONSTER WORLD. I'd say he was probably around 32. He said he and his wife had started watching DS on Netflix. And he said they were around episode 70. Since I know way too much about the program I said, "ah! you just enjoyed the first sighting of Josette's ghost!" He looked puzzled and said, "Who's Josette?" Oh dear...
Presumably they may have been multi-tasking while watching the episodes...
Best, G.
