This is the second in a three-part series looking back at some of the most amazing cosplays I got a chance to shoot in 2013. I was a very busy year for me for cons and cosplay photography. I was privileged to get to go to cosplay powerhouse cons like Katsucon, Megacon and DragonCon for the first time this year, and managed to take photos of some truly mind-blowing cosplayers and costumes.
Like yesterday’s retrospective of genderbent and crossplay photos, the list is purely subjective, in some cases based on the best shot of a great cosplay, and in some cases an average shot of something truly outstanding.
The 12 best cosplay shots of the guys I took in 2013 are:
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Raymond Ramos is known for his amazing Blade cosplay, but when he debuted his movie-version Bane he won 1st Place at the Boston Comic Con contest. He even built a voice changer into the mask!
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This cosplay of Isaac, the protagonist from the game Dead Space, starts a wave of great male cosplayers shot at Dragon Con.
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This was an OMG momemt for me. Eternity was a character in the first comic book I read, back in the late 1960s.
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Another Marvel Comics cosmic character, Adam Warlock.
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There were a bunch of Ruby Rhods at Dragon Con and they were all good, but this guy nailed it.
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It is almost unfair for someone like Terry Terman to cosplay, he is so massive. But his Orion from the New Gods was a surprise and a great job.
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There was a number of cosplay options of Darkstone Ross to choose from, but the winner had to be Powdered Toast Man.
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You have to admire someone who cosplays a character portrayed in a few seconds of a fake trailer in a movie by an actor playing a character. This is Tugg Speedman from the trailer for Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown, at the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
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Mark Hyrullian is best know for his armored Link, or his Baird from Gears of War, but he also knocked it out of the park with Edward Kenway.
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Nearly everyone recognized Toby Markham when he cosplayed Loki at Dragon Con. Almost nobody did when he cosplayed this amazing Cyberman.
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I didn’t like the recent John Carter movie, but I did like how Jim Gillespie nailed the cosplay.
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Thomas DePetrillo is well known for his incredible. giant Bumblebee cosplay. But I had to choose Overkill, as it is his own concept and design, start to finish.
