Support Characters are Everything

I've just attended my first Comic Con (Birmingham England) in cosplay, and had great fun. I went as Colonel Stars & Stripes from Kick Ass 2 and my wife went as Lara Croft from the latest games.

I learned one valuable lesson. I'm very old!

All the young girls were dressed as plinky-plonk or pinky-pie or whatever else the brightly coloured anime characters are called. It's a world that's closed to me, thankfully.

I did find one Cosplayer in an awesome outfit. I don't know this ladies name, but she's dressed as the sassy Vasquez from James Cameron's Aliens. One of my all time favorite support characters.

These characters often capture the imagination far more than the principal players. Characters like Wedge from Star Wars.  They give us the freedom to imagine their back stories and invent our own fantasy worlds.

Gonna need a bigger gun, mostly.