Fun time at EPCON 2016

For my next blog I really wanted to talk about my experience at El Paso Comic Con, or “EPCON”. I had such a great time and I enjoyed talking to people about my experience.

Photo from EPCON's Facebook page

The only other comic con I have been able to attend was El Paso Comic Con in 2013. I have to say that this year’s EPCON was a much better convention all around. I would like to be able to attend a lot more around the country; however, they can get quite pricey sometimes and I am always out of cash. I often find myself looking up people’s vlogs on YouTube about them attending different comic cons. I may not be able to afford tickets for different cons, but I can still look them up on YouTube.

This year I was able to go to the convention on two different days. On Friday I helped out an old high school friend at his booth. He wrote and self-published 3 books, he was trying to get the word out there through the convention. So I had a great time helping him out and getting a preview of what was to come.

My friend Bryan selling his book series The Old Dominion Journals

 Friday was the first day of the convention and though there wasn’t as much people who attended the convention it was still a good turn out. I was able to talk to a lot of the awesome venders there and check out their nerdy merchandise. Saturday was the day that everyone showed up. When my brother and I showed up to the convention it was jam packed. I remember being in line for a rather long time but I didn’t mind because we were about to see all kinds of cosplays while we waited. For those who don’t know what cosplay is, it is basically people dressed up as their favorite characters from a movie, video game, TV show, anime, or book. So while in line it was neat to see things like a Harley Quinn and a Joker cosplay while waiting in line with batman right behind them (these people didn’t know each other). After my brother and I got our wrist bands we went into the main room. We felt like we were in nerd heaven. There were great vendors, cosplays, and art pieces. Even the batmobile and Adam West made an appearance.  We bought a lot of awesome merchandise, saw breathtaking Star Wars setups, and saw the cutest children in cosplays.

The cutest Rey and Kylo Ren ever!

Sadly, my brother and I weren’t able to finish a cosplay this year. We were actually very disappointed because the other year that we went we had fairly decent cosplays that we created. I feel like going to a comic con in a cosplay completes the experience. Needless to say I am going to start working on a great cosplay for Las Cruces Comic Con in September. Although my brother and I didn’t finish our cosplay we worked together to finish the sword that went along with the cosplay my brother was supposed to be. The swords name is samehada and it is from the anime Naruto. We decided to take it to the convention because we worked hard on it and felt it was the least we could do if we did not go in a costume.

The sword my brother and I made ourselves.

The thing I love most about Comic Cons or any other convention that are similar is the culture, the atmosphere, and the amazing community of people that come out to these type of events. I do not have a lot of friends that are into nerdy things like I am. However, when you go to a convention such as this you have thousands of people who understand you. I feel like there is an atmosphere of excitement and gratitude to see the cosplays. I remember the year I made my brothers cosplay and he went as Hercule from Dragon Ball Z and people were excited to see him. A random fellow came up to him and said “Thank you so much for coming as him man, it looks so cool”. Whenever I saw a cosplay of a character I really loved I would run up to them and ask if I could take a photo with them. These characters are not really people in real life so people like me get excited to see these characters come to life. 

Awesome Spirted Away and Batman cosplays.

Spot on hiccup cosplay from

how to train your dragon.

My favorite video game character Fox McCloud.

Over all I would have to say I had such a great time. In the future I want to go to as many cons as I can, and make as many cosplays as I can. I encourage other people who have always wanted to go to a con to go and check one out. It is so much fun and you would not want to miss out!