Clark's Day of Cosplay
08.25.07 / 05:10PM / Joe / comments: 1
We had two big events scheduled for this morning... both our local Toys R Us and our favorite comic store (Comic Store West) had Grand Re-Openings today. The TRU recently completed a nice renovation where they gutted the always-lame Kids R Us portion and turned it into a Babies R Us... and the Toys R Us part FINALLY got an R'Zone.
The Comic Store just moved to their fifth location in twenty years. If you're keeping track, I always think of their evolution as The First One, The One Beside The Porn Shop, The One Beside Off-Track Betting, The One On Route 30, and now The New One.
The big draw at Toys R Us was Spider-Man. Clark had been talking about this fateful meeting for days.
Spidey was an hour late, so a line snaked through the store as soon as he showed up. Clark was fairly astonished at the meeting, but he was brave enough to stand by himself for a picture. As soon as we said our thank-yous and moved out of the way, he announced that he wanted to do it again.
TRU also had some less-popular characters roaming the store(s). No lines here. Clifford's innocently affable expression doesn't translate to a costume, does it? He looks sort of sad, like he's been doing this for weeks.
Here's Geoffrey giving Clark the ol' brush-off. Clark thought he was a dinosaur.
The Comic Store arranged to have one of the famed 501st Legion Star Wars troops show up... and they showed up huge. I figured our quaint little sector of the galaxy would get a couple of Stormtroopers and a handshake, but we had a full dozen Imperials at the store today. Sandtroopers, TIE pilots, even one of those jerkball Death Star officers. It was crazy awesome. Every time you turned around, some Imperial would be hustling out into the 100-degree heat to go wave a sign along the road. In addition to looking super sweet, they collect for a toy drive, so I saw boxes of donated Phantom Menace toys on their way to kids.
Clark was fascinated by the guys, but the store's relatively close quarters and high population meant that he wanted to be held in all the photos.
This Thor costume was really slick. Woolen leggings and everything. Dude was in character too, all "verily!" and stuff, which I always appreciate. His Mjolnir was actually unbelievably heavy. Very cool.
Yeah! GL! Get back to the front line, you poozer! Mogo needs backup!
Wonder Woman and Storm! Everybody commented on Clark's costume, with the big joke being that they couldn't call him "Superboy" thanks to DC's lawsuit with the Siegel family.
You can talk all the crap you want about the Empire, but they are a bunch of stand-up guys that know how to get a job done and that stupid little rebellion isn't going to go anywhere. | 
