Some people call Comic-Con the "Nerd Prom" or the "Big Show." I like to call it the "Nerd Canterbury Tales." For one thing, the daily walk from the hotel to the convention center feels like a pilgrimage of sorts. For another, as in Geoffrey Chaucer's famous book, you're likely to walk into someone decked out in medieval finery during the trek. Of course, you're also liable to bump into a hairy dude wearing the "Slave Leia" metal bikini from Return of the Jedi. Here are the five best, weirdest, most "Comic-Con-y" moments from this year's pilgrimage.

5. Grr! Arrgh! Zombie Captain America Feasts on Geek Brains
OK, this would be a lot weirder if there weren't already such a thing as a Zombie Captain America. Which there is. In fact, if you read the awesomely spooky Marvel Comics title Marvel Zombies, you know that there's a zombie version of every Marvel superhero. But still, having a guy dressed as Zombie Captain America moaning disturbingly as you take pictures of him is... unsettling. And strangely, makes you a bit hungry for Reeeed Skuuuullll!

4. Personal Space Invader
As part of the SDCC programming on Friday July 24, Entertainment Weekly hosted a panel discussion between visionary directors James Cameron and Peter Jackson. All was going swimmingly until a dude dressed in a cheesy spaceman costume -- and wielding a giant homemade ray gun -- climbed up onstage and poured himself a glass of water. He was then escorted offstage by security. How did he make it up there in the first place? No idea. Was it all part of the show? No idea. Is this the sort of thing that makes the annual journey to San Diego totally worth it? Hells yes.

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