There’s a stigma behind comic-con that it’s extremely nerdy. I mean, we’ve seen these stereotypical geeks in movies fangirling about it and when we hear the term, that’s what we associate it with. Well, not anymore. Comic-con isn’t really even comics that much anymore. It’s mostly TV shows now. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to go this year (sob) but I heard so much about it from my friends and there’s pictures everywhere. There was an infinite amount of fandoms represented there. Some of them included (in alphabetical order):

Avengers

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Captain America

DC Comics

Doctor Who

Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog

Firefly

Game of Thrones

Guardians of the Galaxy

Harry Potter

Legend of Korra

Lord of the Rings

Marvel

Merlin

Percy Jackson

Sherlock

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Smallville

Star Wars

Supernatural

X-Men

And these weren’t it by far. No, NYCC was huge these year. After looking through the schedule for the weekend (Thursday-Sunday) I couldn’t even get through the list of panels and autographing sessions for how long it was. It seemed like every fandom had about 1,000 things happening.

For those of you who have managed this far and still aren’t quite sure what comic-con even is, that’s a great question. I’m going to be honest, when I said it wasn’t as nerdy as the stigma makes it seem… I was lying a little bit. It’s not as nerdy as it stereotypically seems, but it still can be pretty nerdy. Most of the people going are proud to be nerdy though.

There were panels about each and every thing you could ask for, every part of every fandom and beyond. But what’s a panel, you ask? Pretty much a bunch of “experts” on the subject sit at a table at the front of a room and get asked questions. So if it’s a panel about props in Harry Potter, for example, then prop-makers from Harry Potter would be sitting at the front ready to answer questions about the wands. Some of the panels were all about feminism, and getting rid of the stereotypical sexism in (some) comics and empowering female characters in all types of entertaining media. Some were about how comics have changed in the last 50 years since comic-con first started. One was about celebrating Doctor Who over the last 50 (yes, it’s been a thing for that long) years.

Now if anyone were to decide to go to NYCC, they wouldn’t see anyone dressed normally. Why’s that? Everyone cosplays. People go with varying degrees of cosplaying, from just wearing a costume vaguely resembling a certain character, to doing extensive background research and refusing to break character even to buy a pretzel for lunch. To be honest though, it’s way more fun than it sounds. Kinda like Halloween for “nerdy” (we’re using the term loosely now) teens/adults. Plus, if that character is there, you can take a picture twinning with them! If your cosplay costume is really good, you can even compete in contests.

Yeah, NYCC was awesome this year, and it just keeps moving on and around the world. There’s a countless amount of them, pretty much everywhere. If you want to go the next one that’s fairly near, go to PhilCon and that’s in June. Long way to wait, but it’s worth it!