C2E2 2018 Photos, Part 4: Last Call for Cosplay!

Princess Lolly from Candy Land, the classic board game that taught us kids all about colors and sugar.

It’s that time again! The ninth annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″) just wrapped another three-day extravaganza of comic books, actors, creators, toys, props, publishers, freebies, Funko Pops, anime we don’t recognize, and walking and walking and walking and walking. Each year C2E2 keeps inching ever closer to its goal of becoming the Midwest’s answer to the legendary San Diego Comic Con and other famous cons in larger, more popular states. My wife Anne and I missed the first year, but have attended every year since 2011 as a team.

In this special miniseries I’ll be sharing memories and photos from our own C2E2 experience and its plethora of pizzazz. If it’s a convention, that means it’s time for more cosplay photos! Anne and I are fans of costumes and try to keep an eye out for heroes, villains, antiheroes, supporting casts, and various oddities that look impressive and/or we haven’t seen at other cons…

Part Two featured the majority of Marvel characters we met; Part Three covered more Marvel, DC Comics, Star Wars, and a bit of video games. This time around: all the cosplay that’s fit to print and left to post. Same disclaimers apply as in Part Two. Enjoy! Some more! Still!

G-FORCE! Tiny and Jason from Battle of the Planets. Or Gatchaman, if you’re hardcore.

Ralph Hinkley, the original Greatest American Hero.

Dream a.k.a. Morpheus from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, and Elsa Lanchester, Bride of Frankenstein.

Sophia from The Golden Girls is easily recognizable to us Gen-X-ers, but Anne and I debated quite a bit over which ones the other two were.

The Rocketeer, doing Dave Stevens proud.

Kaylee’ s lovely ball gown (and strawberries) from the Firefly episode “Shindig”.

Quidditch team representing for the world of Harry Potter, along with an accidental Syndrome from The Incredibles. I usually leave unintentional Easter-egg cosplayers unlabeled for readers to discover on their own, but what the hey.

One of our convention traditions is a little game called “Cosplay Stumpers”, in which we photograph a few cool costumes we don’t recognize and see if my son knows them later. He failed to identify this winged warrior and forfeited many points.

Also stumping us: similar to one of Aquaman’s old color schemes, but a design akin to Princess Ariel’s.

My original caption was “Medieval knights from that one thing with the medieval knights in it”, but I just now dug more deeply and confirmed these are Riften guards from Skyrim, which should’ve been included in Part Three with other gaming characters. My bad!