That is Friend of the ISB and best-selling novelist Caitlin Kittredge as The Baroness, and not only does that make her War Rocket Ajax art a reality, it’s one of twenty-eight costumes sent in by ComicsAlliance readers for our first annual Costume Spooktacular!

I warned everyone ahead of time that we were going to be doing some hardcore mockery “gentle ribbing,” and along with special guest Matt Wilson, that’s exactly what I did today in an article explicitly designed to put a stake through the heart of this year’s Spooktoberfest celebrations. But in all seriousness, the costumes were all pretty awesome in their own way.

And as a bonus fun fact, I totally went to high school with one of the people featured in the article. Can you guess which?