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Cosplay Feature: Lisa Mancini's Magik!

The Marvel Rivals cosplays keep on coming with various iterations of Magik done by cosplayer Lisa Mancini. Specifically, I have three versions that she's done over the last year or two since the cosplay was made & debuted. I myself am not too well-versed to the character so I'm mostly gonna be focusing on the outfit structure and how it's formed around Lisa. For starters, Magik's base costume starts off with a long platinum blonde wig with some wings added on top. Most likely this is done via a headband piece added in. Her main chest piece looks to be a tank top base in black with an armor chest piece layered on top. It does go all the way up to Lisa's neck so I have to wonder if she had any trouble moving her head around while wearing this. Magik has a mixture of long and short sleeved coverings for her arms. There's also different pauldrons on the shoulders. One of which is smoothed out with what I believe is the X-Men symbol on one and the other is covere...

Cosplay Feature: Harley's Joker is ummm...JOKER

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Many cosplayers will make various outfits spanning different characters and forms of nerd media. Within that collection of outfits, some will create different versions of the same character or update it with the new skills they've acquired. I'm a pretty fair example with this method as I've done 4 versions of Nighwting with this latest one being a Steampunk version. Last I checked, the cosplayer I'm featuring today is probably the only one I follow that focuses on one character doing multiple variations of. This especially works for him as Harley's Joker is literally The Joker from the Batman mythos. Anthony Misiano dons the Clown Prince of Crime at practically every convention he goes to. The page name not only represents the fictional "love" between Harley Quinn and The Joker but it's also referencing his girlfriend Alyssa who also cosplays with him as Harley Quinn and has her own page appropriately dubbed "Joker's Harley".

So what makes Anthony's Joker so lifelike? I'm willing to bet most of it is on the make-up and evil grin which he so perfectly nails. The variation of outfits range from the classic yellow vest and purple jacket with matching gloves, to the same vest with a giant purple trench-coat. Both Anthony and Alyssa have replicated famous images from their history such as Joker and Harley posing romantically done by Alex Ross, to the cover of the cult graphic novel "The Killing Joke" by Brian Bolland! In addition Anthony will either have a purple cane with a golden ornament on top or a plain crowbar referencing the brutal death of the second Robin, Jason Todd. I'm very excited to hear that both Anthony and Alyssa will be attending NYCC this year and I would love to see them while dressed up as Nightwing, I can imagine the kind of pictures we could take :D.

Photo by Alyssa King

Photo by Alyssa King

Photo by Alyssa King

Photo by Duke Horca

Photo by Anthony Misiano

Photo by Anthony Misiano

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