{"id":1752,"date":"2016-09-20T00:42:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/in-pictures-2016-long-beach-comic-con\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T00:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:42:20","slug":"in-pictures-2016-long-beach-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/in-pictures-2016-long-beach-comic-con","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: 2016  Long Beach Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-50679\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dsc_0361.jpg\" alt=\"dsc 0361\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Stephanie Rivera.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bright and creative costumes definitely stole the show at the annual Long Beach Comic Con this weekend, and, while pictures may never fully capture the up-close-and-personal experience of attending the annual extravaganza, the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0has a few photos to help you catch a glimpse of some of the outlandish action you may have missed.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, <em>Suicide Squad<\/em>, <em>Star Wars<\/em> and <em>Pokemon<\/em> cosplayers made a strong showing on the floor. However, we also got to see some more obscure cosplaying occurring, which represented a kind of puzzle to the more casual fans (like this reporter), who may have had a tough time solving the question of their origin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In looking back, there always has to be a winner, and Comic Con made its selection in a decisive fashion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to Wesley Tarr, winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BerninaAG\">@BerninaAG<\/a> 215 Simply Red at our LBCC Cosplay Contest! Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BerninaAG\">@BerninaAG<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BJn8wj9hF6\">pic.twitter.com\/BJn8wj9hF6<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Long Beach Comic Con (@LongBeach_CC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeach_CC\/status\/777623282916790272\">September 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Stephanie Rivera<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{gallery}stephanie\/lbccsteph{\/gallery}<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Soren Sum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{gallery}stephanie\/lbccsoren{\/gallery}\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright and creative costumes definitely stole the show at the annual Long Beach Comic Con this weekend, and, while pictures may never fully capture the up-close-and-personal experience of attending the annual extravaganza, the <em>Post<\/em> has a few photos to help you catch a glimpse of some of the outlandish action you may have missed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":67134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[308],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-long-beach-comic-con","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}