Above all else, the line above is what I heard most at the mini-con held over in Sacramento. Once again, I accompanied Patricia to another ‘con, this time in Sacramento. I had great fun there, but first, allow me to give you a taste of what happened in the day before the con.

As you know, I had a costume in reserve. However, I wanted to get started on my upcoming costume. What ended up happening was that I started on the costume the day before the con. The minute I got home on Friday, I started looking for materials- a blue suit coat and dress shirt. To make a long story short, one day and $10 later, I looked like this:

Once there, I soon got separated from my friends, and so I sort of wandered. I was the only Wolfwood there for a while, but there were a number of Vash cosplayers. So, naturally, someone wanted a picture of me and one of the Vash clones. The one I met was actually crossplaying (the term used for people dressing up as a character of an opposite gender), and her name was Elizabeth, though in the moment, she preferred being called Vash. Since neither of us had much to do, we sort of wandered around together for a while. Through her, I met a woman (focus of my next blog) who goes to all the local cons and takes pictures of all the cosplayers. I ended up getting a number of pictures from her (some of which are going to go up next blog), including one of Wolfwood’s death pose in the church. I also met one of the most impressive costumes of the day- another Wolfwood. The main difference was the Cross Punisher. Whereas mine was made of cardboard, PVC, a blanket, a sheet, and five belts, his was custom-made out of wood. It even opened out into the gun. I’m amazed he could carry it for long- it weighed somewhere between 15 and 20 lbs!

The highlight of the day was between 2 totally unrelated cosplayers. One person came as Inspector Zenigata from Lupin the 3rd complete with quick-release handcuffs. Another had a different costume, complete with orange afro wig. However, when he took off the wig, he looked almost exactly like Lupin. When the two met, the Zenigata (who I was talking to at the time) looked over and said “Is that… LUPIN!!!” and took off chasing him. In full Zenigata style, he came back 5 minutes later restrained by his own handcuffs.

Once again, feel free to post comments. Until next time…