10 Reasons Why Flame Con Is Awesome

9. Super Creative Cosplay

Flame Con 2017
DC Comics

Flame Con featured some pretty incredibly talented cosplay on show. As cosplayers took to the challenge to embrace the gender flexibility, sex positivity and the skills learned from a historic connection to the art of drag; we saw some fantastic takes on classic characters, and some truly amazing costume assemblages.

And yes, there was a lot of body positive takes on characters from half-naked Links of Legend of Zelda, to Namors and Jokers and Psylockes, all taking advantage of the incredibly warm weather in New York that weekend.

Then there was those who played with character gender presentation or expectations, and showed us how creative and/or accurate they could be with their chosen character.

Cosplay is always creative, but Flame Con had some of the most fun and creative displays out there.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.