PS - I was pretty sure 99% of the people I saw wouldn’t recognize it, and I think it kind of added to the effect, because at this point when you see a recognizable scary costume, I think most people kind of filter it out already, whereas when people see one like this that they haven’t seen before it makes them stop and look more.

Dan - did you like V for Vendetta?

Watchmen is a book released in the mid-80’s by Alan Moore (the guy who wrote the original V for Vendetta book before it) that takes a “darker” approach to the super-hero comics genre. They’re supposed to be making a movie out of this one too, but they’ve been saying that forever, so who knows if it will ever happen. If it eventually does, though, at least I will have been ahead of my time.

It was pretty fun though walking around in the costume, though. Some people were visibly surprised / scared when they first saw it, and more were just too creeped out to look at me in the face for too long, I think because they can’t make eye contact or read facial expressions. It was pretty fun. If I ever become a professional poker player, I’m definitely going to make this my trademark (instead of sunglasses, etc.)

These pictures don’t show this, but I think I refined it a bit after that first close-up one was taken, by adding a few more safety pins to get rid of the slack of the mask around the neck, so it fit my head a little better.