Comic-Con 2009: Adults Wear The Darndest Things
John Shearer/GettyThis weekend marked the end of Comic-Con: 2009. Of course, amidst all the Lost spoilers, and Avatar screenings, and Tron teaser trailers, and Green Hornet car displayings were hundreds of adults dressed in costumes. On the one hand, I genuinely respect and appreciate that there is a place where people of shared pop cultural interest can come to spend a few days together in celebration of their favorite things, and making fun of "nerds" at Comic-Con feels like shooting fish in a barrel. But on the other hand: how else are you going to get the bullets into those fish?! Please enjoy this gallery of shot up fish.
Posted by Gabe at 4:15 PM in Photo
Tags: Comic-Con | Costumes | Gene Simmons | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Nerds | Seth MacFarlane | Stan Lee | Twilight
People should dress up as characters from The Wire.
(I just started watching this show, so I wanted to make a really bad Wire reference.)
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Does anyone know where I can purchase a Ziggy Sobotka coat? I don't want to ask my mom to make me one.
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You will discover that you will start making The Wire references all of the time, to the point where your friends will start hating you and/or the show.
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I ask for a re-up of anything I'm out of. Even things that don't make sense. Like "I need a black shoe re-up"
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2 Things:
Kevin Smith is dressed like it's 1997, and I love it.
And Seth McFarlane looks like a sleezy, IthinkI'msohot motherfucker.
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Say what you will about how stupid those pants look, but 10 years in, they still totally pOwn his dick.
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Kevin Smith: single handedly keeping JNCO jeans in business since 1998.
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Yikes, I'm no super Comic-Con nerd, but even I can say that dressing up in a Guy Fawkes mask is pretty lazy.
Also, LEAVE MATT GROENING ALONE!
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Oh, and speaking of Matt Groening, that bottle of True Blood is the Inanimate Carbon Rod of 2009!
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that storm trooper has a grill. the dark side really is better!
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Who the hell invited Rapeface MacFarlane?!
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Oh and carrot top needs to buy an iron.
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Agreed; I went through all the photos, and the one that made me Lots Of Love most heartily was the semi-serious and non-costumed picture of Carrot Top. Oh well, life is funny.
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Something disturbing and mysterious is going on with the crotch of those jeans.
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I am sitting next to my mother, who is having a SERIOUS CONVERSATION with her friend instead of watching friday night lights with me, but it's okay because I can't stop snorting/laughing at Kevin Smith's eency weency ankles!
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Seriously, why doesn't he put his rest of his body on the ankle diet?
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You guys, it is so fucking ungodly hot. I was wary of wearing eyeliner outside, let alone an elaborate mask made of greasepaint. That's awful looking. It's like when you see people in other countries wearing long sleeve "Jerry Springer Show!" sweatshirts from 1997. I know you want to look American, but it's hot outside, guy!
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Gabe, until you stop making fun of Donnie Darko, Videogum will never reach it's full potential; I'm pretty sure you lost at least 4 readers with that disparaging comment about the Frank guy.
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Donnie Darko (the original cut) was okay but not near as great as it's made out to be. The Directors Cut, on the other hand, flat out fucking sucked.
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I know!! You're so right. I became concerned about Richard Kelly listening to his commentary on the original cut. He was way too interested in the sci-fi stuff and didn't seem to really care about the characters. I think he just got lucky that he put enough of himself in the story that it seemed genuine and worked.(he supposedly grew up in suburban VA and went to a school much like Donnie) I love sci-fi but DD is good because you come to care about the characters and can relate to what they are going through. Not because of wormholes etc.
Ugh, Plus they changed the music around in ways that annoyed me. The original opening with Echo & the Bunnymen works so much better than Tears for Fears. And taking "Under the Milky Way Tonight" out of the party scene when Donnie & Gretchen hook up kills the mood for me even though it's replace by E&tB in a cut, in the background version. I was trying to find a clip of Under the Milky Way from the movie to show my Czech friend that and it's just not out there on youtube. So frustrating! I was trying to be an ambassador for late 80's emo culture to the world and got the kaibash!
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Yeah, my biggest beef with the film was the fact that it explicitly told you it was all sci-fi by revealing that the medicine were placebos. Ugh. Instead of it being an ambiguous, character-driven sci-fish film, it was straight, stupid weird for the sake of weird sci-fi. The Original Cut looks like the first work of a potentially great director. The Director's Cut looks like the precursor to some hack who would go on to make Southland Tales.
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I'm happy to see Fido getting some love in #15. Although now I'm worried that three dudes in a rickshaw was all Canada could contribute to Comic-Con.
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Don't fret - everyone there, despite their lack of shirts and the abdundance of fake blood and chokers, was very polite. I figure that's 100% due to us. 'Please' and 'thank you,' our leading exports since 1867.
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Wow, is Kevin Smith really that fat now, or is the massive shorts/skinny ankles thing just creating some sort of optical illusion? Cuz it looks like he ate Jason Mewes right before that photo was taken.
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MUCH funnier than the 1st ComiCon post...
...but Donnie Darko is a solid film
(no homo)
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@ #10 - Castoff from Crispin Glover's Clowny Clown Clown video casting call.
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Come to think of it... was it 11?
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Nope, she was from the Juggalo Gathering.
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I can't believe that I had to scroll that far down to find a Juggalo reference. :(
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MUCH funnier than the 1st ComiCon post...
...but Donnie Darko is a solid film
(no homo)
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MUCH funnier than the 1st ComiCon post...
...but Donnie Darko is a solid film
(no homo)
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how did you manage this? with a full 2 minutes in between?! Or did you go back in time to maybe die and stop everything because a giant rabbit told you to?
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what a bunch of douchebags.
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Stan Lee looks eerily like my image of Gabe.
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Since when does Carrot top get to look he can whoop my ass? What is the world coming to. Bonaduce.
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Why does Seth MacFarlane always look so fucking coy? What does he have to be coy about?
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millions of dollars?
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I actually cheered out loud when I saw the picture of the "Always Sunny" cast, nice work.
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Mac told me I have AIDS.
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Aw, Captain America girl is totally cute. Breaking ceilings for justice! Or something. (I hate Marvel comics.)
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Wow if number 10 was not a juggalo, congrats to her for the Metalocalypse Doctor Rockzo video girl reference. She gets hipster nerd points or something of equal value.
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If I may, lemme holla at that shawy in that ill-fitting Red Sonya costume. What it do, shawty. That your boyfriend in the Captain Hook get-up? Thas cool, thas cool...
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What I forgot to mention last week in my snarktastic comment about the idea that Gabe mocking "nerds" is hypocritical is that people who dress up are total exceptions. Fuckin' nerds.
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lil' fella's sad that Bob Pittman wouldn't fly him to San Diego.
Also, now only your sycophantic retard mr. me too's can up and down vote? ugh, just when i though you couldn't get any worst.
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Finger Eleven called...
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Top 10 Green Screen Photos from ComicCon. My favorite:
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Olivia Munn...........(oogling)...........
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