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Tor.com is at this year’s DragonCon! We’re most easily found in the Wheel of Time track (at the Westin) but you’ll find us haunting most everything in downtown Atlanta, eating in the same food courts you’re eating in, accidentally finding ourselves in elevators with Stan Lee, and marveling at that one hotel that thinks it’s a spaceship.

We’re also snapping pics of all the cosplay we like. Just like you! Maybe that should be our new slogan. Tor.com: We’re Just Like You. And So Tired.

Head below to find our favorite cosplayers from Friday, including a steampunk time machine, David Bowie cosplay, and a functional GLaDOS!

Click any image to enlarge. Even Lobot up there. We asked him to give us a thumbs up because somehow we knew this is what we needed to be happy. And we were right.

 

MUPPET STORM. 12 cosplaying Muppets in various guises. Don’t worry about feeling vaguely sexually attracted to the Great Gonzo and/or Beaker. That’s natural; it’s called becoming an adult.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

A candid shot of the Justice Society of America deciding what to do about lunch.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Even your favorite 30 Rock joke is cosplayed at DragonCon!

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

This guy’s been in the shit. He’s seen some things. Steampunk-esque things.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Everyone gets out of the way when a procession of Time Lords comes through. Especially if they might be initiating the Final Sanction.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Even this awesome Hagrid is unnerved.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Someone seriously just left this kitted out steampunk bicycle unattended in the hall. We wonder if it will still be there tomorrow. (Locking the front wheel does not an effective deterrent make.)

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Leave her alone, you b…tourist!

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Now it can be told. Had Sarah chosen to stay with Jareth the Goblin King they would have eventually relocated to Atlanta and their courtship would have eventually degraded into nights out at Hooters and reruns of Family Guy. “I don’t need to find a job, Sarah, I’m a king,” Jareth would sullenly utter, slouching in his chair and passing his crystal ball from palm to hand to palm for hours after Sarah would leave to go to work.

 (Okay, we’re just letting ourselves ramble. These two were maybe our favorites. And they were certainly everyone else’s, too! We saw them stopped over and over again for pictures.)

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

No wait! The Cult of Bakula might be our favorite. Is it too late to change our minds?

After we took this photo, they departed with a “the blessings of Bakula be upon you” to which we replied without thinking, “And upon you.” We were apparently the first ones that day to respond correctly to the benediction, according to the cult. What!

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

After a while, it became more interesting to photograph cosplayers candidly. Here, someone with a Minecraft head stares ghoulishly out the window of the Marriot elevator.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Captain Planet enjoys a soda.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Team Zissou takes a break. It appears only Indian food was eaten, and not Esteban. (This time.)

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Lost for a moment, a lone cosplayer waits as the world whips around her.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

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Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

This one’s for you, John Scalzi!

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Who wants to see Spider Jerusalem leer at a shockingly good Benedict Cumberbatch cosplay?

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Who also wants to see an Aperture Science technician who created his own GLaDOS, one that swivels and speaks and stares at you unblinking?

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Don’t worry, Companion Cube. The cake might be a lie but its love for you isn’t.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

The day wasn’t complete without stumbling across a steampunk time machine. (Er, we think that’s what it is, anyway.) We took a picture and it somehow came out naturally like this.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

Okay, we fussed with it. Here’s the actual photo for comparison.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

 

The first day of DragonCon was a blast and we saw a lot of great cosplay aside from the folks pictured here. But none of them could hold a candle to the pinnacle that was this costume of Manos: The Hands of Fate’s THE MASTER.

Cosplay at DragonCon 2012

The light! The angelic light! The embroidered hands! We are powerless against it all!


Stubby the Rocket is the mascot of Tor.com. Stubby’s likelihood of believing in something can be directly correlated to how many tentacles it has.

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