Cosplayers at Steel City Con, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 10-12, 2018
Steel City Con's summer event was August 10-12, 2018 at the Monroeville Convention Center in suburban Pittsburgh. The Q & A session with film and stage star Kathleen Turner (Body Heat; Romancing The Stone; Serial Mom; Broadway's Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff?) was entertaining and refreshingly candid, as The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described here.
I had some illuminating IP-related conversations with several vendors at the Con and will have a post about that soon.
Cosplayers representing diverse genres and characters were in abundance...and I snagged some great photos of them (thanks for the impressive clarity, Google Pixel 2 camera!).
Sundry denizens of the Star Wars universe roamed the Con:
Yes...Even Stormtroopers can't put down their phones:
DC heroes, anti-heroes, and villains posed proudly:
While the Guardians of the Galaxy in attendance (Mantis, Gamora, and Star Lord--with Baby Groot perched on his shoulder) may have been looking for teammates Drax and Rocket, as well as a script and a director for their eagerly-anticipated Threepeat flick:
[*Spoiler Alert*]
Three of these four characters (Nick Fury, Wasp, Ant-Man, and Black Panther) disappeared with a snap in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and The Wasp.
Know which one didn't disappear?
See you in July 2019, Spider-Man: Far From Home...
Some of Marvel's most famous mutants--soon to be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)--were in the house:
Frank "The Punisher" Castle looked battle-tested and battle-ready:
Wizards with wands wandered the walkways:
Along with eclectic characters--like Ghost Spider (formerly Also Known As Spider-Gwen), Deadpool-cum-painter-Bob-Ross, and Captain Morgan (representing the Rum-imbibing community):