With Phoenix Comicon 2011 just around the corner (9 days and counting), we thought it would be fitting to post some of our favorite moments from previous cons.

Having covered the event for several years now as well as being part of their annual film festival, it came as quite a shock to us last year to be ridiculed for our style of parody. Not by the organizers mind you (they’re not evil yet as best we can tell), but by the Star Wars costuming group’s own evil incarnate.

With immigration tensions at their peak and paranoia running deep in the Galactic Empire – even Jake of Avatar cannot escape the wrath of the dark side…or can he?