So, kids, it’s that time of the year! We’ve got incriminating pictures of this writer, adorable pictures of Troy’s kids, and a solicitation for your comics or pop-culture Halloween costumes going out!

That’s right – we here at Blog@Newsarama want to see what you’ve got going on for Halloween this year. Who are you going as? And if it’s someone we might like to see, send a link along so folks can see your picture.

For our part? Well, the 2006, 2007 and 2008 winners of Project Rooftop’s Flights and Tights contest are at their respective links there. The picture to the left is of Kyle and Connor, Troy Brownfield’s sons, who are Batman and Robin, respectively. This year, I’m going to be Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris’ character from the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (because my Savior 28 costume is taking way too long to be counted on) and below the jump I’ll share a montage of (mostly humiliating) comics-and-pop-culture costumes I’ve worn over the years.

First off, we have Snoopy. My favorite comics character as a kid, and the coolest dog ever put to paper. Featured in an upcoming Warner Home Video box set that will see a digital remastering of the ’70s Peanuts specials, Snoopy is decidedly never unhip–except maybe when you’re three years old and dressed up as him.

The next on my tour of humiliation is The Joker. Based on Jack Nicholson’s interpretation of him from the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie, I put this little ensemble together with a makeup kit licensed by Warner Brothers for the movie, some of my mom’s clothes and a toy gun I got at Fort Ontario, which was a Revolutionary War fort about 20 minutes from where I grew up. I thought I was awesome. Nobody ever came to another one of my Halloween parties.

This one’s not technically a Halloween costume, but I dressed as Banky Edwards (Jason Lee’s character from Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy, seen here with Susanne the monkey, for some reason) when my friend Logan and I went to see Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back in the theaters. Logan, who was taking this picture and therefore isn’t in it with me, actually was dressed as Brodie Bruce (Jason Lee’s character from Mallrats).

Thus endeth the truly embarrassing ones. Spider Jerusalem was the ballsiest costume I ever went for. I chintsed on the body art (especially since I was living in Syracuse, where it’s about 10 degrees in late October, and since Spider was, in the comics at the time, dying and therefore usually wore more clothes than usual), but I have never thought I looked good with short hair, so the fact that I shaved it off for this was impressive. At least to me and the girl I was dating at the time, who agreed not to give me shit about this on the condition that I let her help me shave it. I closed my video store at 11pm the night before, and then opened at 10am the next morning…so the fact that I had, in those 13 hours, managed to shave my head, really jarred some of my regular customers.

…Superboy! I dressed as Conner Kent the year that Final Crisis #6 came out in October, and there was some speculation that we’d never see the character again. Obviously I didn’t believe that nonsense for a second, but it was a good excuse to do a basically non-costume and still seem like I put in the work, just because I colored my  hair and bought a new belt. When I wrote to Geoff Johns to ask him what sort of jeans Superboy wore, his response was memorable: “Anything except Wranglers.”

Last year I was Preacher’s Jesse Custer. Again with the “a bunch of stuff I have around the house and a few props equals Halloween costume.” That’s a recurring theme with me that I’ll revisit for Barney.

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