The only comments on weight that are appropriate would be costume oriented-- as this is supposedly a worst costume post and many of the overweighted cotume bearing individuals did NOT dress correctly for their body type. It's fine to be fat, it's another thing to dress like you're 90lbs lighter than you are.

Despite being thin myself, I don't feel like it's justified to be picking on those who weren't even in costume =/. It's vindictive and cruel.

Also... definitely don't see what's wrong with the "Poor Man's Tila". She's actually quite pretty and it appears to me her bodyparts aren't silicone, which is a plus.

All in all, this post had some funny, legit stuff and it also had some lame and mildly cruel stuff.

Wow. You take a photo of an overweight guy as a con, and you even get him to smile for the camera.

Did you say to him, "Hey we're totally going to ridicule you on our site. Would you mind smiling for us?"

Stay classy, douche bags.

"Wow. You take a photo of an overweight guy as a con, and you even get him to smile for the camera."

No, Chris, that is not a correct assessment. He is a fat obese guy. Overweight is dressing it up with sprinkles ... and that's the last thing he needs.

the poor mans tila tequila is tila tequila

Hey, you went to a con and found a lot of people dressed up in costumes, having fun, and celebrating a shared culture. Everybody looks to be having fun, enjoying themselves. But! There is a fly in the ointment, and you say to yourself "hmm, this costume is not up to DC standards" and "this girl has a body type inappropriate to the costume she is currently wearing and my personal standard of beauty."

So you ask them for a picture. They pose for you. You post it here, ridiculing their enthusiasm.

My advice?
Die in a fire.

Then stop going to cons.

whoever wrote this article seems to be a bit of a douchebag. don't go to cons, don't care about the people who go to them, but you hate on the darth samurai (pretty well made) and the obvious r2d2 display and yet give best costume pics to some nerd girl reporters from the media?

were you born this dumb or did your mother have to repeatedly concuss you?

Aww come on people. Sure the costumes are just people having fun, but 99% of these folks knew they'd get made fun of and they're OK with that and could probably give a shit less.

As for the 1% that had no clue, well it sucks to be them.

Okay, man. The fat jokes - not cool. Scott Kurtz is an awesome dude. You didn't need to be such an asshole about that.

Yeah, I heard Scott Kurtz was very nice to everyone and really appreciated meeting his fans...then you go and do something like this to the guy.

Post a pic of yourself so we can put some stupid captions under it, douche.

Enjoyed the pictures. Hated the comments by the author, who seems to be douche. No digg, no SU, I won't be back to the site.

That guy you made fun of, that guy drawing and smiling? That was Scott Kurtz of Http://www.pvponline.com fame. He's a great guy and has been making me and hundreds of thousands of other people laugh for longer than I can remember.

Mocking him is tasteless and baseless. He's one of the nicest guys on the goddamn internet.

When given the choice to be cruel or be kind- why chose to be cruel? Why mock someone who makes so many other people happy? Why decide that you need to be the one to point and laugh at someone who is doing nothing other than showing up, signing autographs, drawing for people and being awesome?

You, sir, are made of fail.

Big Fail.

I can say with conviction, based solely upon what I've read in article of yours, that you are completely and wholly unfit to have any kind of social interactions with any other people. Ever. Go figure out what it is about your life that makes it okay for you to be mean to people who are doing what they love. You are a mean, sad little person. Go get some hugs or something.

But not from me.

That comedian costume didn't look bad. In fact a few of these (the poison ivy costume, the black batman, the troll thing) were good. Also way to post Scott Kurtz and point out that he's obese, and then ridicule him with an overused internet "joke".
I enjoyed some of the pictures, but the author here is obviously a douche.

"He’s one of the nicest guys on the goddamn internet."

What the hell? You know nothing about Scott Kurtz if you somehow believe that he's not an evil liar who's constantly trying to make other people throw up from hearing the disgusting shit he says. I didn't see the photo or caption, because it was removed after I clicked on the link to get here, but I'm 100% sure that it was way nicer than he deserves.

lol. awesome thread. great insights into humanity. applause.

Whatever, all the fat apologists on here are probably fat themselves. If you really cared about the dude you'd disapprove of a lifestyle that will see him dead before 35. He chose to look like a tub of lard, it's only fair we get to ridicule him.

And to "Jonathan" anyone who uses the term "big fail" is a faggot who deserve to get his fat ass kicked.

There sure is a lot of whining going on here. I love cons and the people I meet there, but have a sense of humor for christ's sake. If you're going to dress up and head to a public place, you have to expect a reaction.

As for making fun of Scott, it doesn't matter if he's "the nicest guy on the internet" because they are not attacking his character anyways, they're pointing out a fact about his weight. He probably grew the backbone to take fat jokes long ago. Try doing the same.

i am seeing a pattern in his post-nycomiccon report:

"Some of my most amazing and surreal experiences post-con include:

* Soup Dumplings at a restaurant that felt like a place a mob boss would plan a hit
* The Tick-Tock diner and our non-monte cristo sandwiches
* The awesome party at Stitch
* Khoo leading us to White Castle after the party and purchasing a crave case of sliders
* Making a girl cry
* The Blackberry Party at the Cave Lounge, where I performed improv karaoke to a Rob Base song
* Taking a “album cover” type photo with Penny-Arcade business crew in Times Square
* Accidentally driving past one of the restaurants featured in Kitchen Nightmare. Purnima. It looked small and empty
* Searching for Gellato
* Humus plus braised short ribs on white pollenta at that awesome greek restaurant
* Learning how to properly drink a single malt scotch"

You are a douche.
I think you dont like yourself much.
You should consult a professional to get help.

I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with "poor man's Tila Tequila" that would merit putting her in the "worst" category. She looks fine to me.

The trick to cruel wit is the 'Wit' part.

You want people to take a joke - then make one.

"Look he is fat" is as weak as you.

I dont like fat people. They are greedy and horrid looking. But I dont get off on belittling them.

I get off on your mum.

Feltching my dog.

Sad wee man.

Anyone who goes to a room full of joy, no matter how silly the people there look and just takes a dump on it is an idiot.

You would have been fun in the school yard asshole.

I guess I'll raise you a Silk Spectre then...

http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aliciasilkspectre141mr2.jpg

"Whatever, all the fat apologists on here are probably fat themselves. If you really cared about the dude you’d disapprove of a lifestyle that will see him dead before 35. He chose to look like a tub of lard, it’s only fair we get to ridicule him."

Scott has actually lost a great deal of weight over the last three or so years, so he's actually doing something about it. But yes, lets mock the overweight with tired internet cliches and then use a bullshit non-excuse like "its okay, hes FAT" to justify it. Jackass.

I agree with most of the other posters... Not cool to ridicule the overweight ones. It looks like genetics on a couple of those pics and besides, whats the point. Give a break to the girls as well. They might not be playboy sexy, but they're sexy to someone.

Now, you find me a pic of a large guy sitting down at the con digging in on a container of Crisco, and I'll join in poking fun....

Aw come on guys, this article is hilarious.

Clearly the man who wrote it did so while crying at his computer because all the "losers" he took pictures of were having a better time than him with their actual friends. I mean, wow. It wasn't even funny. He could have saved time by just copying and pasting "lol look at this one" under each one and would have achieved the same level of funny.

I ain't angry at the guy, I'm just laughing at him. Don't be too hard on 'im, clearly life's been hard enough.

Making fun of people for bad costumes/costume choices = Ok.

Making fun of people for being overweight, and wanting to be social = FAIL.

Result = You LOSE! YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY SIR!

The other Jon is probably the fat guy you got to smile.
Shane is the guy who eats his graphic novels.

my advice. stop eating for a few months before you dress up next time. then we wouln't all have fun at your expense.

oh your caps lock...
it's right
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I don't really give a fuck about the fatty comments. Fuck the fatties. But you are a total idiot not to appreciate the Scottish Spiderman costume. It's Spiderman... in PLAID. You fucking moron.

Dude, that was so not cool. Most of your "bad" costumes are just overweight people in general, some of which aren't in costume at all. You must really be a miserable person & you feel like the only way you can feel superior is to make fun of other people. You need to get over yourself. You are not perfect. Even if you were to work to the point where you looked like a Calvin Klein ad you wouldn't be perfect.

I don't like watching overweight people get into spandex costumes either, but you know what? I repeat to myself that it's none of my business. They're enjoying themselves & trying to get into the spirit of the convention. Not everyone looks like a supermodel & saying that only perfect people who can afford expensive costumes should cosplay is stupid. Cosplay is for everyone. I don't mind critique, but what you've done here isn't critique. This is school yard bully stuff. Classy. What are you going to do next? Track them down & give them all swirlies after gym class?

Article was hilarious. Costumes truly were pretty bad in comparison to the best costumes of the con. Comments were awesomely funny. Looking forward to next years costumes. And if u don't wanna be ridiculed don't wear a skintight one piece if u have thunder thighs. Just common courtesy so ppl's eyes don't bleed. Ppl need to stop being butt sore about fat jokes. They are funny.

Um ex? Some of those pictures weren't people in costumes. They were just random people walking around minding their own business. Making fun of people in costumes they shouldn't be wearing is tacky, but making fun of people who aren't even wearing costumes is very rude. Unless they're wearing a costume they shouldn't have been in this article. If the article writer wants to write about how much he hates fat people then he should go write it on another blog, not one that centers around cosplay.

The worst attempt at humorous captions I've ever seen. Try harder or give up. Your captions don't even make sense most of the time. Seriously, take a class or something.

Holy fuck, i've never seen this many comments on IHC, much less flak comments.

These bad costumes look more like the photographer/author is just a closet chubby chaser, i mean... why else take pictures of overweight people who wearn't in costumes in the first place?

I'd question their sexuality, but as long as it makes them happy, then i'm all for it.

But... i'm not into that, so i'm gonna stay clear away from this site from now on. X_x

Oh shit....

You mother is at my dog again.

Dude, Im open minded but this bitch is filthy.

Who knew a person could gargle cum?

Is she a performance artist or just an epic whore?

I dressed her as spiderman as well.

But that aint web hanging off her chin.

The first heavy set guy you showed was Scott Kurtz. He is a fantastic artist who does a daily online strip called PVP Online. He also has an Image Comic of the same name. Don't dis him, he is making more than you and me combined!

Lots of fatties commenting today...

Wow...congrats gents you got some attention. Poke Scott with another sharp stick and lets see what happens.

To all the visiting shit bags that came and had a comment, this site ridicules people. And by people I mean you. By you, I mean that you're genes are drowning in the kiddie pool of humanity. And need to be removed with napalm and bleach. Your parents hate you, you're stupid because your mother stuck a clothes hanger through your head, and your dad was to cheap to pay to fuck her in the ass. Get a grip, its a joke, and Scott knows that people laugh at him and he jokes on it to. So go die. Please. On Yahoo!. Cause that shit is funny.

This is exactly why I would never go to a con, ever.

just wanted to say:

WOW great article .. as you see you get more comments when you're a douche which is cool btw .. it's an opinion and can be expressed however felt and if you don't like it you can bitch about it too.. those where not fat jokes those were obese jokes.. haha naruto and fat albert !! priceless .. fat is 15-20 lbs overweight anything after that is well OBESE .. no self respect for ones self .. no self conscious about ones life .. c'mon pretty sure they can take it.. if they cant then try not eating anything within grasp !

dear Jim,
how sad. why dont you help me with the trigger? my shitty little brains cant handle what you are laying down. please, show us the way, oh mighty comment master...

"It's OK because it's funny that he's fat."

"It's OK because it's funny that he's a nigger."

No harm done, right?

If you wanted to write an article called "Fat people I saw a a comic convention" then I would have no problem with your comments. This is titled "The Worst of NY Comic Con."

The worst.

Being overweight makes you the worst person in a particular place?

I hope you have many children with obesity and self image issues so you can see what they go through as punishment for putting others through it.

I'm at least happy in the fact that Scott Kurtz is more successful than you will ever become in your "career".

wow. this is the most responses i have yet to see here. seems like all you fatties, uggos, and otherwise dateless wonders need to be a little more prepared for riducule if you go out in shit looking the ways you do. get over it folks. go cry over a bowl of bacon and remember to wipe your fingers before you flip the pages on your precious comics and graphic novels. sheesh...

You know what, you little shit, who the fuck are you and what the fuck do you look like? Taking pictures of overweight people (who aren't even in costume) and teasing them for it? Wow, that's fucking funny. How dare these fat people leave the house? Fuck them right?

Who the fuck are you Mr. Anonymous? You're really fucking funny to take pictures of people and then write mean comments about them on some shitty little website. Did you make fun of them to their face? Confront them? Tell them you were going to put their pictures online as a form of public ridicule? You tease them in person you cowardly cunt? Probably not, because you have no fucking balls because you're a fucking dickless nerd.

Congratulations you pathetic waste of flesh, you're what's wrong with America.

This worst-of post needs more Chobot in it.

I'm the first to admit that I am obese... not fat... obese. And even I found some of it funny. The only ones I really had an issue with is the people not in costume. I would never dress up like batman because I know I would look ridiculous but if you do you are prepared to get ridiculed.

To the author, next time just leave of the random fat guy you saw walking down the stairs, he's not part of the joke and doesn't want to be.

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jim, sounds like you need to beat your dog, or wife, or whatever it is that gets you off and let's some of the steam out of that hot head of yours. lighten up guy. literally.

I'm what's wrong with America, thank you very much.