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[BatmanTV voiceover] Dee Dee and Gypsy, putting theconin comic con?
Looks like our Dependent Duo are cosplayingwith fire!
Will the Two Wolverines who give our adventure its title sink their claws into these lovely lawbreakers?
Will the Blanchards blanch at forming costumed connections with their hirsute suitors?
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Is it the most realistically depicted comics convention Ive ever seen?
Hard, but not impossible.
But its not always a costume.
Russ, the friendly (if overly persistent) Old Man Logan cosplayer portrayed (amazingly!)
byBreaking Bads ASAC Hank Schrader himself, Dean Norris, is honest to a fault.
Then theres the young Wolverine, with the amusing-if-you-know-your-X-Men-lore name of Scott (Joe Tippett).
Gypsys escape from her mothers fantasy life is just an entrance into someone elses.
he asks, uncertain if shes lying or just has really really bad taste.)
In a be-careful-what-you-wish-for sense, Scotts fantasy becomes reality.
The episode concludes with a deft and upsetting bit of physical business.
Its like watching a version ofMiseryin which Kathy Bates makes James Caan hobblehimself.
Eventually Gypsy goes through her moms stuff and discovers the truth: She was born in 1991.
Its this that gives her the courage to run off to Scott in the first place.
Wouldnt a fantasy world of mangled Disney/Marvel romance seem not just appealing but necessary at that point?
Its a reality Gypsy has the power to choose herself, even if everything there is fake.
