One thing that Comic-Con does not lack is cosplay. Cosplay is everywhere in Comic-Con. And this year is no different. Cosplay can be anything at Comic-Con, from video games, to movies, to comics.

Sometimes solicitors of movies or TV may dress up to trick you in taking their flyers as seen here for 'The Prisoner':

Sometimes they may be a few gear that gets the cotume to the point. An example is the following Sonic the Hedgehog costume, where something as simple as a Sonic hat, blue shirt, blue pants, red shoes, and a Tails doll gets the costume across:

This even works if you want to be a Dalek or a Death Star:

Sometimes a costume quality looks too good for a regular person to make it... it probably is. Some costumes could be sponsored or created by booths. Such as Superman in the DC booth:

Or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for... um... the TMNT booth:

But most of the time, a lot of the costumes look fairly standard. Like Princess Peach:

Or this Jill Valentine:

A lot of times, people wearing the same type of costume [such as costumes from Nintendo games] would show up at a specific area in a specific time for a meet-up, or a photo op. Often these times are posted on cosplay forums [such as cosplay.com]. Two of the more popular meet-ups this year included the Slave Leia Photo Op at the Star Wars booth:

And the Steampunk photo op. The problem was the Steampunk photo op was that too many people showed up, so I was only able to take a few pictures of people in the line for the Steampunk meet-up:

Sometimes a meet-up may be on short notice, as people wearing similar costumes bump into each other and decide to pose for people. One of a meet-up with a short notice was the Disney meet-up:

Finally, sometimes the people cosplaying could be there for the masquerade. The masquerade is one of the big events at Comic-Con that every attendee should experience at least once. It's usually held at Ballroom 20, and the line to get tickets to see the Masquerade usually start as early as 10:30am. Tickets are handed out at 3:30pm, and people are let into the Ballroom at around 7:45pm. Since the Ballroom seat around 2500 people, there usually are enough tickets for people who line up as late as 3:30pm. The problem is, the later people wait in line, the worse the seats will be. If the room is full, or they run out of tickets, special screens are set up for live-feed of the masquerades in Room 5-6 as well. Tickets are also free.

Since I wanted to grab good seats for the masquerade, me and my friend took turns waiting in line. So we had a spot in line as early as 11am.

The masquerade itself is a competition, where entries compete for best costumes as well as skits. Not all entries perform a skit, but when someone does a skit, it may end up like the following video:

In terms of craftmanship, some of the best costumes are shown at the masquerade. These costumes includes The Hulk:

This year, the entry that won Best of Show for the Masquerade was the 'Four Seasons' entry. This entry portrayed 4 "paintings" of the four seasons in a year, where the central women in the paintings come to life for each season cycle.

Usually the masquerade will run to 11pm, with the awards following. But if watching people in costume on stage doens't interest you, Comic-Con also holds the masquerade ball...which is a small rave with 1/2 the people in costume dancing, while the other half of the people just stand and take pictures.

That's about it for Comic-Con 2009. I think from my previous 4 blog posts I've covered most of the major aspects in Comic-Con. I have just one more blog post left tonight [or tomorrow], but I hope my posts helps anyone planning to goto Comic-Con next year, or encourage people to check out Comic-Con in the future.