The cosplay year, she is coming to an end. With San Diego Comic Con in the rearview mirror, Emerald Comic Con over and our very own Comic Con Africa high-fiving DragonCon on a job well done, there’s only one big name left on the costume circuit: New York Comic Con. This year’s event took place at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in the Big Apple, and with over 200, 000 attendees present it was clear that convention fatigue had yet to set in.

It’s been a while since our power utility, Eskom, has yanked the power from us in rolling, scheduled intervals. I’ve really missed the romantic, candle-lit takeaway dinners and brisk cold showers afforded by load-shedding. I miss having to read by candlelight because there’s little else to do, like I’m stuck in the Victorian era. I miss the economy grinding to an absolute halt. If you miss these things too, well then I have some great news for you! Loadshedding’s back!

With Halloween around the corner, there’s more than a few movie festivals going on around the world that are proving that every town does indeed have an Elm Street. For the recent birthday screening of Nightmare On Elm Street 2 for lead actor Mark Patton at Fantastic Fest, the organisers wanted to do something special for the man of the hour, which resulted in a call being made to SideSerf Cake Studio to whip up a dream treat.

After two years, countless hours and a ton of elbow grease, one dedicated cosplayer has managed to craft the fabled XE suit from Batman: Arkham Origins.

Sweet cash prizes and the honour of winning one of South Africa’s traditionally most prestigious cosplay competitions drew cosplayers to rAge Expo 2019. Here are all the year’s big winners as well as a selection of other cosplay pics from the three-day event.

Taking place literally three days after Comic Con Africa, it was always going to be interesting to see how rAge 2019 fared. Was the expo’s electronic gaming offering distinct enough to draw in its own audience or would attendees’ con fatigue be real? Here’s how things panned out.

Even with a huge gallery to share, I’ve got a feeling that we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the cosplay majesty that was on offer. So here it is, the 2019 Comic Con Africa cosplay gallery!

Here are all the top performers from the Comic Con Africa 2019 Championships of Cosplay, including the overall winner, who will be representing South Africa at the Crown Championships of Cosplay at C2E2 next year. Never say South African cosplay isn't world-class.