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ello Fellow cosplay engineers and lovers of all things cosplay! In this issue I had the privilege to interview the lovely and talented Freddie Nova. She is a true comic book geek in every sense of the word. She is also one of the very few true cosplayers that had been asked to grace a cover of an actual comic by the comic creator themselves! Through our talk, she revealed to me that comics are what got her into cosplaying. Her very first cosplay was at the age of 17, and the “Lady Death” comic character was the first one she feels a kinship for (even to this day) and as a result that was her first cosplay. To show how dedicated she was to making this first cosplay epic she spent 10 months dying her hair to a bright white color to best emulate the sparkling white long hair Lady Death has, now that is what I call dedication to the craft! She has improved on her cosplay over the last 16 yrs, and spanned over 40 different cosplays. Lady death though still holds a top position in her heart so she continues to improve her rendition of this character. She has honed her cosplaying skills on this famous character so much that she caught the attention of the creator Brian Pulido. He loved her work so much, he asked her back in December to grace the cover of his new Lady Death comic with her in her lady death cosplay! Freddie commented, “I was flattered beyond words, and stoked to do it!”