[Spyne98]

Wow, thanks for sharing that article Skoob!
I don't mind people who dress up, however there are other people who cause problems at cons.
I have a personal story from last year's NYCC that indeed shows that things are changing. My good friend (who's a guy) asked to bring along another friend of his (another guy who I briefly met one time, this would be his first comic con). I normally drive and I said I wouldn't mind giving this other guy a ride. We then picked up a female friend of mine who likes to cosplay as various Marvel and DC characters. She's a pretty hardcore comic fan and she knows her stuff.

So anyway, the 4 of us make it down to the city and I ask my friend what costumes she is planning on wearing each day at NYCC. She begins listing her choices. She runs down a list of who she dressed up as including Wonder Woman, Rouge, Huntress, and Emma Frost.

The new guy then stops her and says "oh, you should dress as Emma Frost! Because then I could see your tits!"

This completely offended my whole group. My female friend was so uncomfortable that she took the train home from NYC rather than sit in the car with this jerk again. And it took every ounce of my being not to smack him right there. Who says that to a person?

So now my friend is taking the train home, she luckily found some other friends to ride with, I was still pissed off none the less. We then drive home and and this new guy, who's a total asshole, is going on about how we wanted to steal things from vendors because why should he have to pay for comics and prints when he could just go online and save pictures of them? He only started coming to comic con because it's a "cool new thing" and he couldn't believe how many "nerds" were at this thing for cool people. If I wasn't driving I would have thrown him out of the car.

But this is the thing now. It's finally "cool" to be a comic fan. I love that many people share my interests. But now we get these people that are so full of themselves that they still have to make fun of hardcore fans. They are don't seem to care if they offend people. Comic Con is the one weekend a year where I forget all my problems and have a good time, but it's getting harder and harder to do that with all these scalpers and people who are only doing it because it's "cool".

I'm going to be at NYCC again this year. I'm really hoping to have a good time. I'm sorry if this was long winded, but I wanted to share this.