Category: Cosplay

RED LIGHTNING SAVES SEATTLE MUSIC

Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish and Hero Creative
Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish and Hero Creative

A hero rises when Red Lightning saves Seattle music.

When seven-year-old Nick Looney awoke today he was a boy with a love of superheroes (we fully support that!)

This already extraordinary boy was transformed and embarked upon the ultimate Seattle superhero adventure. Nick went from a second-grader fighting leukemia into a superhero character created especially for him: Red Lightning.

Seattle needed Red Lightning to save our beloved music history! Continue reading RED LIGHTNING SAVES SEATTLE MUSIC

RED LIGHTNING & Meet the Villains!

Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish and Hero Creative
Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish and Hero Creative

We introduced you to a new superhero: Red Lightning!

But what is a hero without villains and a crime to solve?

Here’s the story courtesy the Make-A-Wish team:

“Seattle-based musician relics, including a Univox Hy-Flyer guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain, a Fender Stratocaster played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, a Bengal tiger jacket worn by Macklemore in the “Thrift Shop” music video and Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntables used in performance by Grandmaster Flash, have gone missing from the EMP Museum. Superhero’s United is being contacted to help us solve the mystery. Continue reading RED LIGHTNING & Meet the Villains!

Meet RED LIGHTNING

Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish
Red Lightning courtesy Make-A-Wish and Hero Creative

A new Seattle Superhero is born this week!

From our friends at Make-A-Wish:

“Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes – from caped crusaders protecting cities to children like seven-year-old Nick, who is fearlessly battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Now undergoing his second round of chemotherapy, Nick has tapped into his superhero strength and spirit to endure a dosage that is typically given to much older children.

“He never complains, EVER,” said his mom, Stephanie.  “Nick rarely gets sick, but after he does, he is smiling and running off to play. He is literally the strongest person I have ever met.” With heroic strength like this, it’s no surprise he wished to be transformed into a superhero alter-ego of his own creation: Red Lightning! Continue reading Meet RED LIGHTNING

STAR WARS Exhibit Will Premiere At EMP Museum

© & ™ 2014 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.
Princess Leia Jabba’s Slave Bikini Star Wars™: Return of the Jedi© & ™ 2014 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.

The costumes of STAR WARS are coming to a museum not far away and very soon.

 

The Smithsonian Exhibition Exploring the Power of Star Wars™ Costumes will begins a national tour January 2015 at Seattle’s EMP Museum.
Iconic costumes from “a galaxy far, far away” are presented in the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume. The exhibition begins a 12-city national tour at EMP Museum in Seattle where it will be on view Jan. 31 through Oct. 4, 2015. Continue reading STAR WARS Exhibit Will Premiere At EMP Museum

WHY GEEK GIRL CON 2014

GeekGirlCon 2013 photo by ComicsBlend
GeekGirlCon 2013 photo by ComicsBlend

Why Geek Girl Con you might ask?

 

It’s an opportunity to gather for all lovers of comics, gaming, sci-fi and cosplay but you will learn, be inspired and maybe empowered.

 

Last year it really hit home why we need this open, inclusive environment for geeks of all types, genders, backgrounds. Continue reading WHY GEEK GIRL CON 2014

VIXENS, VAMPS & VIPERS: GEEK GIRL CON Preview

Vixens, Vamps & Vipers courtesy Mike Madrid & Exterminating Angel Press
Vixens, Vamps & Vipers courtesy Mike Madrid & Exterminating Angel Press

The original bad girls of comics seize the spotlight in Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of the Golden Age of Comics.

 

The man who wrote the book(s) on female comic characters returns to the convention that celebrates women in geek and pop culture.

 

 

After bringing back lost heroines in Divas, Dames and Daredevils, author Mike Madrid (The Supergirls) takes us to the other side with ruthless women who broke society’s boundaries. Continue reading VIXENS, VAMPS & VIPERS: GEEK GIRL CON Preview

HAVOK HALLOWEEN

Uncanny Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny Avengers #1 courtesy Marvel

Confession:

This lifelong comic book fan has never cosplayed for a comicon or Halloween.
Last Halloween I did an impromptu Cyclops with a genetically altered with X-Men gear track jacket and a pair of visors that would impress Scott Summers.

 

This year I may actually go out as a superhero for Halloween and this would be a test run for Emerald City Comicon 2015. Continue reading HAVOK HALLOWEEN