After talking about it for the last couple of years, my son finally committed to being Colonel America for Halloween. For those who haven’t read it (and are still reading my blogs), Colonel America is a version of Captain America from the comic series Marvel Zombies. This was all his idea too.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the 12 year-old Halloween version:
We have the cheap Walmart Captain America outfit (sans muscles), a cheap mask from Savers, a “brain” mold for gelatin, and a few other minor parts and makeup. Other than the shield, which, although not really cheap per se ($25), will be on my office wall by the morning. That part’s more of a long term keeper, and the mask probably (which is on a styrofoam mannequin head right now.
Here’s a close up of the head… eww…
and just a good overall shot of it, goryness and all:
I think it worked out well, and he was very happy with it. At the end, I had him pose next to the book itself as a comparison. Not too bad…
3 Comments
Marilyn · February 3, 2010 at 10:12 am
So uh, what do we have to do to get you to adopt us?
admin · February 3, 2010 at 10:07 pm
That boy was just beside himself for weeks leading up to that, that’s all he wanted to be. Luckily the outfit part was cheap, the year before it was around $45.
R. Thomas Riley · October 22, 2011 at 8:13 pm
What Marilyn said 😉
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