Perhaps in a few days I’ll write something up meditating on the people who dress up at Comic Con, and what that actually means to our society, or the end of it. Essentially fantasy playing comes down to one thing: desperate attention whoring. So, while taking pics my goal was to capture these people without posing, something they will instantly do if they catch you raising your camera (although some are hired, but most are not). I find it much more interesting seeing someone dressed as the Joker (and there were more than plenty) eating a taco than pretending they’re in Marilyn Manson video. I wasn’t always able to do that,. but if I caught someone without knowing a few times, I was happy. Please feel free to insert your own captions below (I added a few of my own here and there) and send it to friends and family.

“Smell the glove. C’mon SMELL IT!”

“Does it make you feel like less of a man knowing I could squash your head with my abs?”

Who dropped the acid in my drink? Because I’m trippin’ balls.

“What you’ve never seen a man in his pajamas and a skull mask before?”

“What do you mean I look like the 40-year-old virgin? I’m Link Damnit!”

“Hehe, I’ve got swamp ass.”

Hey look, Steven Spielberg wandered on to the floor.

Please dude, don’t vote…

Yep, this guy probably slept in his “costume.”

Ahhhh Jesuses. Or hippies? Who knows these days?

Batman and the Joker work together to find their dignity hidden somewhere on the map.

“Ok Miss, me or fatty, who do you wanna screw?”

“Hi mom, I’m so like totally surrounded by freaks right now?”

The only good thing I’ve seen come from The Spirit thus far.

The Punisher just heard Lionsgate fired director Lexi Alexander.

“What do you mean we didn’t make your hotties of Comic Con post?”

“Alright, let’s go bust some nachos at the food court!!!”

Goddamn bugs in San Diego are ferocious.

“Hmm. Do you think we’re over dressed?

“I’m soooo high!”

“If you don’t tell me where the bathroom is pronto, I’m going to shoot my friend here in the chest. Do you want that on your mind?”

“We’re so hip for 1997. Oh yeah baby”

I present the future of the world. Sigh.

“Gettin’ laid tonight, ooooh yeaaah.”

“Does the audition line for The Dark Knight Comes Again start here?”

Put the mask back on pissy man.

Dude. No seriously. Dude.

“Have you seen 7 midgets dressed as ewoks around here?”

“Remember kids, be more sociable or end up like me in 30 years”