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Comic-Con 2011: Top 10 Costumes

Patrick Nowicki — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:46:27 +0000

This past weekend, July 21st-24th, Comic-Con International held its annual four-day event in San Diego, California. Over the years this event has become more and more known for thousands of people showing up dressed up in various costumes (or cosplay) that resemble their favorite characters. These costumes range from simple purchased outfits to ones that required countless hours to make, to sexy outfits that leave many Comic-Con attendees doing a double take.

Instead of displaying hundreds of pictures I’ve gone through many sources and have picked out the 10 best costumes from this summer’s Comic-Con. Many of these pictures come from a massive thousand picture gallery at ComicVine, which is awesome, by the way. Check out the Comic-Con pictures below. Click on each picture to view the full size version.

#10 – Anya Stroud from Gears of War 3

#9 – Doctor Doom

#8 – Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid

#7 – Blondie and Babydoll from Sucker Punch

#6 – Portal Aperture Science Girl

#5 – Ash Ketchum from Pokémon

#4 – Mileena from Mortal Kombat

#3 – Iron Man and Black Widow

#2 – Knightingail Assassin Eloa

#1 – Kairi and Sora from Kingdom Hearts

Comic-Con 2011: Cosplay Gallery

Patrick Nowicki — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:28:26 +0000

This past weekend, July 21st-24th, Comic-Con International held its annual four-day event in San Diego, California. Comic-Con is one of the main sources for artists to showcase their comic books, science fiction or fantasy films/shows, or any other related element in pop culture. Over the years this event has become more and more known for thousands of people showing up dressed up in various costumes (or cosplay) that resemble their favorite characters. These costumes range from simple purchased outfits to ones that required countless hours to make, to sexy outfits that leave many Comic-Con attendees doing a double take.

Pictures taken from Comic-Con can be found amongst a large number of web sites. However instead of displaying hundreds of them I’ve gone through many sources and have grouped together some of the best from this summer’s Comic-Con. Many of these pictures come from a massive thousand picture gallery at ComicVine, which is awesome, by the way.

Check out the Comic-Con pictures below. Click on each picture to view the full size version. The full gallery is at the bottom of the post.

Comic-Con 2011 Full Cosplay Gallery

Click each thumbnail in the gallery to view the full size version of the picture.

Comic-Con 2009: Top 10 Costumes

Patrick Nowicki — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:15:08 +0000

Now that Comic-Con 2009 from San Diego is over, the pictures that everyone took while there are starting to hit the web. This event has evolved into more of a large costume display party rather than somewhere to go to get information about comics, games, upcoming movies, or anything else you can find there. However, this isn’t always a bad thing, since it provides some great pictures with people in them ranging from those who spent way too many hours designing their costume, to the ones who will look sexy impersonating any superhero or character out there.

Instead of displaying hundreds of pictures I’ve gone through many sources and have filtered out what I believe to be the top 10 costumes from this summer’s Comic-Con. I’ve tried to get a decent variety and (mostly) avoid the common costumes such as stormtroopers, trekkies, princess leia, etc.

#10 – Killzone Guys

#9 – Tomb Raider

#8 – Zombie Girls – Looks like they are promoting the movie Zombieland, but that’s not too important…these girls are just hot.

#7 – Wonder Woman – one of probably many, but she pulls it off well.

#6 – Anakin Skywalker and Aayla Secura

#5 – Sephiroth

#4 – Nick Fury, Ms. Marvel, and Black Widow

#3 – The Baroness from G.I. Joe

#2 – Rikku from Final Fantasy X. Fairly simple costume but this girl looks exactly like the game character.

#1 – Big Sister from Bioshock 2. The high detail put into this costume makes it my top choice from this year’s costumes.

Picture Sources:

www.mania.com
www.geeksaresexy.net
www.maximumpc.com

www.rottentomatoes.com
www.herospy.com
www.edopeno.com