This week I attended Atlantic City Boardwalk Con to do some interviews for The Saint Mort Show, and to help my friends at Ashen Phoenix with their booth. Whenever attending a first time show, you never really know just what you’re about to partake in, but I can honestly say that this was the most fun I’ve had attending a convention in a long time.
The show was easy to navigate, even with a great turnout. I was hugged by Jason Mewes after talking to him about sobriety, got to interview the writer/director of Animaniacs (podcast coming this weekend), watched DMC rap ‘It’s Tricky’ from not more than 15 feet from me, and I took a picture of Xavier Woods not realizing it was him until much much later (more on this below).
At the con I befriend Marvin Cruz of Hero Hotties Photography, I’d like to thank Marvin for providing me with hese pictures so that I wasn’t posting cell phone photos.
There was definitely a lot of great cosplay at the convention, and these were some of the standouts!
Okay so Marvin didn’t take this last photo. It was pulled from Xavier Woods’ Instagram, but it comes with a story. In wrestling there has been a faction called New Day that people HATED. About 2-3 months ago I began telling people that I genuinely think they were about to turn a corner and become must watch TV. Everyone made fun of me. Now they’re still getting booed … but because they’re heels. They’re hilarious and people have seemed to embrace them more.
So at the booth a guy dressed as the black ranger came over to get a photograph, and I thought he looked familiar but I couldn’t place a name to the face. He wanted a picture with one of the models dressed as Kraven (who was his friends favorite Spider-Man villain). We took the photo and about an hour later another fan came by the booth and noticed my Dolph Ziggler shirt and said “Did you see Xavier Woods was cos-playing as the Black Ranger?”
I checked Instagram and lo and behold… I failed at a chance to tell Xavier Woods how much I love the New Day gimmick (for evidence look no further than this weeks episode of the Saint Mort Show podcast).
