- The cosplayers were aglow with the excitement of competition!
The costume contest at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago 2012 had an amazing variety of beautiful costumes and clever cosplayers. The MC, Jarrett Crippen aka The Defuser, is the winner of the second season of Stan Lee‘s “Who Wants To Be A Superhero?” and played Deputy Johnson to Kevin Sorbo‘s (also at Wizard World – more later!) Sheriff Bradley in the 2009 movie Lightening Strikes.
The competition was fierce!
The competition was fierce with the lines between genre, gender, and generation being blurred.
- Jarrett admiring Kala Smith’s costume at the Wizard World Comic Con Costume Contest
The judges had a hard time deciding with such a wide selection among the almost 200 contestants.
Adorable wins in the Wizard World Costume Contest
While some might say that one contestant in the Adult Costume Contest may not have had the bona fides to participate, in the end the adorable adult/child [email protected] combination won with the general outcry being, “Awww…”
For more photos from the Wizard World Costume Contest, check out our photo galleries!
John N. Collins is a writer, photographer, game & coloring book designer and a bad dancer.
Any resemblance to the King John character is merely a coincidence.
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