Greg Baldino’s C2E2 Report #4 – Looking The Part

Greg Baldino continues to report for Bleeding Cool from the floor of C2E2.

Accesorize, accesorize, accesorize. Sure there’s about a million pounds of comics at C2E2 this weekend. But you can’t wear them out on the town at trendy Chicago nightspots. (Lady Gaga could, but she’s the exception not the rule. In addition to the usual plethora of geek chic t-shirts, you can also pick up corsets from Ms. Martha’s Corset Shoppe and/or Timeless Trends, get that Harvey Pekar tattoo you’ve always wanted from Fox Valley Tattoo or Ink Fusion, a Tenth Doctor coat from Alien Entertainment’s booth, post-apocalyptic goggles and

The latter is actually part of a project by the 501st Legion. to auction off specially decorated Star Wars helmets to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. It’ll actually be up for auction at Celebration V later this summer but you can check it out at C2E2 and find out how to enter their free raffle.

Greg Baldino lives and writes in Chicago, where he watches over the local comics scene like a posthuman autocrat. His fiction and journalism has appeared in many publications internationally. He can be contacted at greg.baldino@gmail.com.