It was nice at Kapow! to see people wandering around dressed as characters I actually recognised - I think the anime/manga crowd must have been saving their efforts for MCM. There were many more than these two, but they're both favourites of mine.
The girls were good too, although there was a lot of duplication - I counted three Poison Ivys and at least four Black Cats (the two Ms Marvels don't count as one was in the original costume, the other the current one - both of them together would have been a good shot to get) - but as delicious as some of them were, they just looked fragile compared with the sheer awesomeness of what I was sitting across the aisle from all weekend.
You want cartoon action heroines? These girls are the real deal:
Members of the London Rockin' Rollers roller derby league, including my new friend/muse Fonda Kaos (centre). I had to have the whole thing explained to me, but as near as I can figure it's kind of like British Bulldog on wheels, except hot. Not pictured because she was only there on the Saturday: the pneumatic Derby Stopout, unanimously acclaimed winner of the Irving Forbush Award for Best Ass in the Room... Fortunately, I like to draw:
And once I'd started...
