The great thing about conventions is everyone has their own experience. For example, io9 did a tour of the Star Wars booth at New York Comic Con and certainly thought it was cool. But later in the weekend, some unsuspecting attendees got a much, much different experience.

As a kid, Vita Ayala grew up loving Wonder Woman comics. As an adult, they have gotten to write Diana of Themyscira twice. But Ayala isn't content with just living the dream of working on a big corporate superhero. The New York City native is making comics that give voice to people without money, power or privilege.

Thanks to everyone who came out to last week's annual io9 + Kotaku Cosplay Ball during New York Comic Con! It was packed with great cosplayers -- to the point that not everyone who showed up could get in (to be fair, we throw a hell of a party). Luckily, we have a massive gallery of those well-dressed souls who attended for everyone who couldn't attend.

New York Comic Con 2017 may not have had as many spoilers and reveals as its San Diego counterpart, but it was bursting with epic cosplay, including Pickle Ricks, Itachi Uchida fighting Wonder Woman, and a giant oceanic gown. Check out this video montage of the best and brightest from this year's event.

It's been less than a year since DC's Rebirth pulled Wally West -- the first one, that is -- out of the speedforce and back into the world of DC Comics, his memory of the old DC universe in tow. Now, he's going to be thrust into a comics fan debate of old for a new storyline: Who's the better speedster, Wally or Barry?

Constantine is coming back to the CW, a bit more two-dimensional than the last time we saw him on Arrow, through a new animated series. And if you were dying for more of Matt Ryan in action as the sarcastic spell-slinging demon hunter, then this preview should be more than enough to whet your appetite.

DC chief creative officer Geoff Johns and author Lev Grossman sat down this afternoon at New York Comic Con to discuss Doomsday Clock, the upcoming limited series crossover that will see Alan Moore's Watchmen clash with the DC Universe.

DC's The Batman Who Laughs, a one-shot tie-in to the publisher's ongoing Metal event, doesn't drop until November, but during a panel at this year's New York Comic Con writer James T. Tynion IV revealed the twisted Joker/Batman hybrid's origin story, and it's as cool as it is horrifying.

It's been years since we last saw Icon, Hardware, and the major characters of Milestone Media's Dakota in actual comic-book form. Today at New York Comic Con, DC Comics and a host of high-profile creators unveiled the first wave of titles that will bring back the multicultural superhero universe.

Batman Ninja, the upcoming animated film coming from Warner Bros. Japan and directed by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Jumpei Mizusaki, is a simple enough idea to wrap your mind around: Batman and co. are flung back through time to medieval Japan. But the few seconds of footage screened today at New York Comic Con showed that the story writer Kazuki Nakashima (Kamen Rider Fourze) and character designer Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai) have crafted is unlike any Batman story we've ever seen. Though the movie isn't quite done yet ahead of its 2018 release, it's already one of the most visually daring and astonishing Batman stories Warner Bros. has ever produced.

Batman has fought the ninja turtles. The crew of The Next Generation teamed up with Doctor Who's Eleventh Doctor. Wonder Woman has battled alongside the Bionic Woman. So honestly, at this point, we shouldn't be surprised by a comic as crazy sounding as G.I. Joe taking on The Six Million Dollar Man.