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Comic Con!!

We found out that Comic Con was coming to our country and we thought that was awesome! They were doing it for the first time ever AND it was going to be in our city - so why not?! I always thought it would be awesome to go in America and this was probably the closest I would ever get :) haha! Here are a couple of comics they drew of a South Asian Superhero - awesome!
Of course, as soon as we got off the metro, the papad man was there selling his fun crunchy snacks, so we had to gobble some up! :) It's one of our favorite snacks :)
Comic Con was in it's first year here, so it wasn't very big, but it was cool! There were people even dressed up! I wasn't sure what to expect, but some people went all out! There were quite a few jokers, batman, scarecrow, some characters I didn't recognize....
... even Captain American made a showing!
Wolverine really did look like wolverine! Not sure who these guys are in the black... when we were first coming in I saw them and said to Adam: "Hey! Look some people wore costumes!"... then Adam said: "Andrea, those aren't costumes, they're burkas!".... then I felt really bad until we got closer and we saw that they really were costumes :) haha!
He really does look a lot like Wolverine.... Diya wasn't that impressed :)
... but she was intrigued :)
These guys made me laugh... A female Scarecrow & Jafar sharing some ice cream :) haha!
It was fun :) I can't wait to see how awesome it is next year :) Very fun :)

Comments

Anthony and Sharon said…
How interesting! I've always wanted to go to Comic Con too! Next year you'll have to dress up!
Bran said…
I have NO idea what comic con is!!! crazy though! Funny story about the burkas! :)
Deanna said…
AWE SOME!!!
Christine said…
ha awesome!! looks like you had a blast!

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