Like most geeks, I absolutely love Halloween. You get to spend time making a killer costumer, or be lazy and throw one together last minute like I do every year. You get to wear absurd amount of makeup, something I particularly love doing. It's like getting ready for a con, except you get candy and chocolate! (Reese, please!) Though now instead of trick or treating I wait for the day after Halloween to buy a box of chocolates on sale and stash 'em at my desk. Halloween never gets old, even though I am. Which is why I absolutely HAD to get a Halloween post in before I am laptopless. I'm shipping mine out for repairs and won't have it back for a minimum of 10 days. The scariest thing that'll happen to me this October anyway...
So, what with all the hype surrounding Suicide Squad, there's no doubt about it, hands down, Harley Quinn is going to be the most over done, beat to death costume this year. And I'm going to encourage you to be Harley Quinn anyway. Not because ZOMG Suicide Squad. Honestly I kind of hate the look they gave her for Suicide Squad. No, I'm telling you to be Harley because she is one of the absolute most awesome, well-developed and interestingly complex characters in ANY comic book universe. Yeah, I said it.
On the chic (and maybe cheap) side of it, she's super hot, and every piece of my modern updated Harley Quinn costume is totally wearable on its own. So its a costume, but it's not. You won't spend a bunch of money on it to wear it once and watch it get swallowed up by the rest of your closet, never to be seen again. Do Harley justice, even if the rest of the world won't