If Seattle needs a hero to help its downtown emerge from a pandemic-induced funk, that person might just be wandering around Emerald City Comic Con this weekend.
The event is certainly drawing thousands of people to the new Seattle Convention Center building, a $2 billion expansion that opened last month and is being heralded as one way to get people back into the city.
Geeks of all shapes, sizes and pop-culture persuasions wandered the vast halls of the Summit building on Friday, checking out celebrity guests, merchandise booths, speaker panels … and each other.
Cosplay is always a big attraction at Comic Con, and Friday was no exception.
It used to feel like the people who dressed up were the ones who would stand out in the crowd, but now it’s the other way around, with people in street clothes appearing out of sorts. From the plaza out front on Pine Street to the top floor ballroom of the massive Convention Center, geeks turned out and posed for pictures dressed as countless figures from movies, television, comics, video games and more.
Keep scrolling for some of the fun characters GeekWire ran into. Emerald City Comic Con runs through Sunday.
