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WonderCon 2009 Costumes – Part 2
By Great White Snark | March 4, 2009
The hits just keep on coming. If you understand “hits” to mean more well-intentioned costumes with questionable execution from WonderCon 2009.
And, yes, a few examples of excellence here and there. But what fun are those?
Hey, Phoenix. Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.
No, Predator, I do not “want some of this.” But thank you for your kind invitation.
Pac-Man costume. This is Namco’s idea of a booth babe. Bad Namco, bad.
Princess Leia. You guys can write the joke yourselves, right? Yeah? Cool.
Batman and his douchey Naruto friends on the way to the Masquerade. (Yeah, I lumped the sock puppet in with Naruto. It reeks of Japanese insanity.)
Best. Costumes. At the Convention. And not just ’cause Sesame Street makes me sentimental. Wait… no. That’s exactly the reason.
Queen Amidala, owning “stoic.”
Chef from South Park. Finally, a gender-, race-, and portliness-appropriate costume.
Spandex Batman. The opposite of a race- and portliness-appropriate costume. Unless this is some Mexican wrestling character that I don’t know about. Which would be strange. Since I have all the trading cards.
Sally Juspeczyk, the original Silk Spectre from Watchmen, times two. I have no jokes. I find this 100% acceptable.
Now this one I do recognize from my Mexican wrestler trading cards.
The only Star Trek costumes I’ll photograph are “leggy bridge officer” and “dead Klingon.” And Jeri Ryan from Voyager. And Jolene Blalock from Enterprise. But that’s IT, I tell you!
Old people Steampunk costumes.
Young people Steampunk costumes. Holy hound dog, it all blends together, anyway. Just move yourselves to a Victorian compound in Texas featuring steam-powered lasers and mechanical computers and be done with it.
The 501st Troopers, doing what they do. Which, specifically, is making like Star Wars toys and coming out with lots of slightly different variants of the same damn figures.
I don’t know… Steampunk squirrel? Whatever. To Texas with ye.
Teen Titans. They obviously put a high level of commitment into these costumes, except when it came time to gender-check “Beast Boy.”
We get it… you’re totally not the same because your paint jobs are different. Oh, and… one of you is a damn, bearded hippie.
The Spirit. You see what’s going on here, right? I don’t have to spell it out? Please don’t make me say it.
You probably don’t know what these costumes are unless you’re one of the cool, in-the-know people watching Venture Bros. (P.S. I don’t know what these are.)
“The world will look up and shout ‘Save us!’… And I’ll whisper ‘No… not until I’m done browsing for collectible autographed prints.’”
I don’t know what this guy is, but he is Win.
Laurie Juspeczyk, a.k.a. Silk Spectre II costume from The Watchmen. Finally, someone with a healthy respect for nutrient deprivation. Anorexia is the new black, people!
Joker, having a gay ol’ time.
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Topics: Conventions and Events, Costumes, Crafts and Hacks | 16 Comments »
Tags: conventions, Conventions and Events, cosplay, superheroes, WonderCon
March 4th, 2009 at 3:04 am
so what am I supposed to see on the spirit pic?
March 4th, 2009 at 8:59 am
The Yip Yips are AWESOME! Gay Joker/tourist Joker is hysterical. I’ve never been to a comic convention, but after seeing these pics, I may have to go sometime, just for the people watching.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@buck: A fat joke waiting to happen.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I’m fairly certain that Batman would not take kindly to his likeness being represented with high waters. Someone should tell that guy to NOT buy his costumes at Toys R Us.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I think that Pacman costume rocks.
Looks like Pacman is pooping out last night’s chinese…
March 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
ah, damn I didn’t see it before. Guess I’ll need to hit the gym before next year, lol.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
The bear thing with batman IS from an Anime. Bleach.
I do not see why Beastboy cannot be BeastGirl. Consider it an Elseworlds telling. I believe in one of the AUs he actually WAS a girl, for one. So take that, comic book geek knowledge.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I’m so sick of Steampunk it’s not funny.
Steampunk is the new Stormtrooper.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
A few years ago, seeing a Stormtrooper at a convention was impressive. These days there are so many I hardly notice them.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Hey, this is Terra from the Teen Titans group above. We put TONS of time into our costumes, and I think our Beast Boy looked really good. It’s hard to hide a woman’s chest, but I think she did a great job. Obviously we can’t turn her into a man. Cross-playing is a hard thing to do.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:23 am
@Terra: It’s not that hard, given the right financial, medical, and surgical resources. How committed are you, really?
Maybe next year.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
It sounds you’re speaking from experience.
I hope it works out well for you.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
@Terra Do I sense a bit of nerd-rage? God, I hope so. It is nourishment to me.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:02 am
So whats the whole point of making fun of peoples costumes?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Anyone else notice that Silk Spectre #1 is the Tivo spokeschic?
October 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
The yip yip alien costumes are easily my favourite on this page.