“Also ACAB Includes Your Dad” 😂

I’ve been working on an upgraded version of Spider-Punk’s pants, and I’m so happy that I got to debut them at Rhode Island Comic Con this last weekend!

Shoutout to @hobiesdump for helping me figure out what some of the patch designs were! Couldn’t have done it without ya :)

Video transcript (or at least this was the blurb I wrote for it, so there may be some minor differences):

[replying to a comment saying “Did you make the guitar that’s so cool what?! Could you do a video showing that off because I actually love that so much :0 /nf”] “Yeah, sure, I’d love to! In Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Punk’s design cycles through a bunch of different color palettes and textures. One of those is newsprint. In the movie, the newspaper clippings seem to be random, there’s even coupons and stuff. But I thought it would be fitting to use clippings from articles about protests and other political news, to sort of pay homage to Hobie’s politics.

So we’ve got everything from the Freedom Riders, the AIDS crisis, the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the Stonewall Riots, Stop Cop City, the Me Too movement, Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, the Kent State shooting, the killing of Freddie Gray, and so on.

The neck of the guitar is made from photos from those news articles, including the Gaza solidarity encampments, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests—that’s the Minneapolis precinct burning, and the 2017 Women’s March.

The guitar strap in checkered black-and-white has meaning as well, the pattern is known as “two-tone” in ska, the music genre, and it symbolizes racial unity, black and white together.

You can turn the tuners and flip the switch, it’s fun to fidget with!

The stickers and their placement is all based on the official character art, and those I got from this post by Jake Panian, who worked on Spider-Punk’s design for Across the Spider-Verse.

And I did the same thing for the spikes on his mask. UnitedHealthcare CEO getting shot… Yeah, this was a really fun project, and I’m really proud of it, and I’m excited to show it off!”

A closer look at the newsprint guitar I made for my Spider-Punk cosplay! This was really fun to research and put together, and I hope you folks like it too :)

You know what happened last time Spider-Punk visited D.C.?

Hey folks! I made a discord server for my cosplay accounts because I wanted to have another place for TikTok users to be able to still find me after the app gets banned. It’s not limited to TikTok people though, so if you want to join, please do!

I’m not trying to be a content creator, so this is not a “fans of SpideyPunx” thing. It’s just a way for people to see what I get up to with cosplaying and to chat with others who have similar interests. :)

A Spider-Punk PSA.

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ELON DID A NAZI SALUTE

Spider-Punk: Arms Race (2024)

I love this guitar so much, y’all have no idea 😄

That newsprint pattern is a collection of news clippings from American protest history, mostly from the ~1960s to the present day. I really enjoyed putting it all together, it’s like I was making an artistic tribute to the movement. There’s shoutouts to the Freedom Riders, the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings, the Gaza solidarity encampments earlier this year, the Weather Underground, and so much more. My personal favorite is the headline from the Stonewall riots along the bottom side of the guitar: “GAYS HIT NY COPS” 🫡🏳️‍🌈

Some of the guitar parts actually work, too! You could flip that switch and spin those tuners. It’s really fun to fidget with when I’m waiting in long lines at cons.

The “stickers” are all accurate to Hobie’s official character art btw!

More pics under the cut~

I gotta tell you, seeing your cosplay of the fourth really made my day! It was a nice break from the boot licking that happens in my town. Keep it up!

🥰 omg thank you!! (also i’m so sorry i didn’t see this until now)

📍 Graffiti Alley, Cambridge, MA

It’s actually legal to graffiti the walls here. Don’t post evidence of crimes!