"Glorious" Missouri Comic Con 2026: Day 2

About this episode

CatBusRuss shares his experiences from Day 2 of Missouri Comic Con 2026, discussing panels, cosplay, and the challenges of convention scheduling.

CatBusRuss has made it back from Springfield, MO. How did the " 1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match " hold up to the power of the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Brent Spiner & Jonathan Frakes's panel? Spoiler: Riker is still "Number One". But, there was an audience for Russ 's final panel at Missouri Comic Con 2026 . This includes a mother who let her son in Eric Cartman cosplay check it out solely for the punch and pie. It was a lesson for our host to realize how old he really is. After the mother and her kid left, he was the oldest person until the cosplayers who decided to sit in 15 minutes early for a panel about working with EVA foam arrived. The oldest person by 16 years. Yikes. Thankfully, the aspiring cosplay masters were lively enough for some discussion about 1985 cinema. Is " The Breakfast Club " an action or adventure dramedy? The people who came into wait for the prop panel also demonstrated the secondary problem with this comic convention. Every panel room's start time began at a different quarter of the hour. This means there is no time to get to other rooms. Here is to hoping that not many people needed to move to a…

People in this episode

Host: CatBusRuss

Topics covered

• Missouri Comic Con
• 1985 cinema
• cosplay
• panel discussions
• action movies

Keywords

• Missouri Comic Con
• 1985 Action Movie
• Brent Spiner
• Jonathan Frakes
• cosplay
• The Breakfast Club

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Breakfast Club

Places: Springfield, MO

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