Jimmy is no stranger to costumes – or cosplay as the cool kids say.  He has lit up conventions from Shore Leave to Baltimore Comic-Con.  Let’s face it , though, the East Coast conventions are the minor leagues.  Can Jimmy hang with the studs on the West Coast?

I started my research by checking out the San Diego Comic-Con 2009 Costumes gallery on Yahoo.  Then I checked out the coverage from the local San Diego NBC affiliate.  Finally, I found the motherload with Maximum PC’s 600-image gallery!  I searched through every photo (some of the Baroness pics twice) and could not find one single instance where someone combined two characters into one costume.  Could Jimmy really being on the cutting edge of dork costuming?

Sure, anyone could spend hundreds of hours designing and building a freak’n cool Buzz Lightyear costume, but it took Jimmy less than five minutes to slap together Darth Ravenous – a combination Sith Lord and Baltimore Ravens football team mascot (with a little McDonald’s Grimace sprinkled in for good measure).  Who else but Jimmy could have come up with the trademark Duke Skywalker, a GI Joe / Jedi Knight combo costume?  Not those Comic-Con losers.

If my research taught me anything, it’s that not every girl should try to pull off the Princess Leia in Jabba’s Palace bikini and that when it comes to costumes, Jimmy beats off the competition.

 

Sneak peak: In podcast episode 14 Jimmy tells us his latest costume idea!