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Love it.
You should watch the seasons after that.
Good stuff.
Fish fingers and custard forever.
I guess it's because I absolutely love Doctor Who but I don't see how that is "weak."
Boba Fett?
WHERE?
So do a lot of other famous characters in other well known shows? I mean Tennant's costume was a brown suit. Eccleston's before that was a leather jacket. Either way, I'd rather not get into cosplay semantics.
I don't think they were meant to be as laugh out loud as the previous strips aimed to be. It's like seeing your kid dress up as your favourite comic book hero but they actually put effort into it and get the costume right. A mix of pride and adorableness. Might just be me, I see this as more of a friendly, heartwarming strip.
edit: Langly knows what's up.
Fannarchists. They're called Fannarchists.
It isn't about cosplay. It's about a visual joke. Yes, a lot of shows and movies have characters that don't look distinctive, and they would all be equally bad choices for the last panel.
He fell.
Worse than that, really. What I take away from the series is that even suggesting that she dress up like a tart from a video game is verboten, but dressing up as a tart from Doctor Who who is known to neglect wearing certain articles of clothing and flirt with herself is perfectly okay.
The rest of it was cute, but that last panel confuses me in the light of the reaction of part 2.
My god I can see that lady's gams! Cover your eyes children!
Thanks for proving my point.
Bayonetta is far more visually sexual than Pond, but Pond is just as overtly sexual in her manner. If sex is okay, then let it be okay in both cases. If it isn't, then be mortified at both cosplay choices. All I'm asking is to be consistent.
You can't see that in the second case, though. That would require being familiar with the character.
Yes! Thank you, that's my point! Tycho is clearly familiar with the character, so either he's hung up purely on the visual aspect, or he's being horribly inconsistent.
Bingo. She's his niece, and from what I remember she's not even thirteen. Ask yourself if you'd prefer your pre-adolescent niece or daughter dressing as Bayonetta or Pond at ComiCon of all places.
Skin-tight leather with high heels vs a jumper, skirt and sneakers.
She could be cosplaying as young Pond.
also wushock is being incredibly obtuse
Personally, I'd eschew your false dichotomy and vote for 'neither,' but I see the point.
It would still invite an unsavory response by those familiar with the character. ("Really, Christine? Do you really want to hear every other guy tell you, 'Come along, Pond,' all day?")
I actually said that I thought the rest of it was cute, although if I'm being obtuse I probably should have said it was 'acute.' :P
And one I hadn't considered. Thank you.
But as for panel 2, are there Starfleet captains that young?
And if you're worried about creepy jerks saying stupid stuff to you, why the hell are you at a comic book convention?
It's like after the creeps have been warned the moral guardians have popped out of the woodwork.
Yeah, the only way that's remotely inviting said comments is if the person making them is incredibly creepy and is deflecting responsibility for that creepiness onto the target of the comments.
Har!
Also, Doctor Who is a family programme. Amy Pond may be more promiscuous than past companions, but that doesn't exactly make her overtly sexual. It's certainly far more appropriate than Bayonetta, and I know this even after playing the first 15 minutes of said game and immediately trading it in.
I refer you to the post directly preceding yours.
The problem is that Pond is overtly sexual. That's what promiscuity means! I'll gladly admit that Pond is far less visually stimulating than Bayonetta, I'd just prefer that my niece cosplay neither as a dominatrix nor as a promiscuious Time Lord companion, especially when there are other strong female characters without that baggage.
Edited for grammar derp
"Father/Mother" is "buir", so "uncle/aunt" could be "buir'ad" or "ner buir'ad".
Wow... I'm such a dork!