I found Power Girl!

Long-time readers (Hi, Mom!) will recall that I'd made a promise to this woman.

We met at Wizard World 2007 in Chicago. I was wearing a Plastic Man costume, my nephew was wearing a Woozy Winks costume. The meeting went something like this:

Some dude: (Tapping me on the shoulder.) She wants you to come over.

Me: Huh?

Some dude: (Motions towards the woman in the Power Girl costume.) She can't leave the booth and she wants you to come over.

Me: Power Girl!!!

Her: Plastic Man!!!

(I run over to the booth, dragging "Woozy" with me. A big hug as we talk over one another.)

Talking over one another: ILovePowerGirlILovePlasticManAlwaysBeenOneOfMyFavoritesOhMeTooWeHaveGotToGetAPicture.

Me: (As we pose.) You realized that I'm going to have to PhotoShop this so my arm wraps around you.

Her: Of course!

Me: I'll get you a copy.

But, dummy that I am, I neglected to get her contact information. So, even though the picture came out beautifully and I got not just one but two great PhotoShop mods of it, I didn't know how to get a copy to her.

Until now.

The woman, I've discovered, is Liana K, co-host of the popular Canadian show Ed & Red's Night Party.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about her.

Liana Kerzner (born 1978 in Toronto, Ontario), better known by her stage name, Liana K, is a Canadian television entertainer who co-hosts the talk show, Ed's Night Party.

After studying English Literature and Anthropology for a time at York University, she abandoned her academic studies in 1997 when she was hired for behind-the-scenes work on Ed's Night Party. This eventually led to Kerzner earning the positions of senior producer and co-head writer of the program. By 2004, she joined Ed the Sock to become the first female co-host on the show.

Kerzner has also been involved in many of Ed the Sock's other media projects, including the annual Fromage specials and Smartass: The Ed the Sock Report, both on the Canadian cable music and variety television channel MuchMusic.

Kerzner has been also active as a performer in theatre and competitive dance from a young age.

She's also a comic book fan and she loves cosplay. And she blogs.

So I'm going to drop her an email (or blog post or something) with a link to this post so I can finally get her the photos.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "OMG, J.R.," you're thinking, because you think in initialisms. "You and Liana K are so much alike. Blogging, comics, costumes, hand puppets. Ravishingly good looks. How are we going to tell you apart?"

I can see your difficulty. So I used information from our respective sites to create the following chart of comparisons.

Liana K	J.R. J
Your results: You are Spider-Man You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Spider-Man 100% Supergirl 90% Batman 80% Wonder Woman 75% Green Lantern 70% Superman 70% Hulk 60% Iron Man 60% Robin 55% The Flash 55% Catwoman 50% Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz	Your results: You are Spider-Man You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Spider-Man 90% Hulk 75% Superman 65% Iron Man 65% Catwoman 55% Supergirl 53% The Flash 50% Green Lantern 50% Robin 48% Batman 40% Wonder Woman 38% Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Hope that helps.

The Mighty Monarch vs Powergirl

I am blessed with not one, but two mods of that picture of Woozy Winks, Plastic Man and Powergirl from the Wizard World convention.

This mod is from The Mighty Monarch, whose blog is featured in my blog buddies list.



I especially love the way Plas' arm is crumpling Powergirl's cape!

Powergirl, Photoshopgirl

Check out the excellent Photoshop mod that RockThumper did, using that picture of Woozy Winks, Plastic Man and Powergirl from the Wizard World convention.



I'd posted a request in the Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE) discussion group on Flickr. RockThumper saw it and really came through.

The Internet. Where you can always rely on the kindness of strangers. Now I just need to track down Powergirl and give her a copy. Where'd I put my JSA communicator?

Wizard World 2007 in Chicago

My nephews and I Jack Skelington, Woozy Winks and Plastic Man had a great time at Wizard World 2007.



I've uploaded a mess of photos to Flickr.



Let the labeling begin!

Update: Of course, the photos I took are not the only photos of us. Scads of people stopped us and took pictures, and there were cameras galore at the costume contest. I like the title that Harvard Avenue put on this Flickr picture, "Plastic Man/Elvis and Woozy Winks":



Update #2: More of other people's pictures: