From best friends, to best buds, to hanging out with their one-and-only true love, the cosplayers came out in pairs for this weekend’s Comicpalooza 2017. We saw some wickedly cool SFX contact lenses and, hopefully, no eyes were damaged in the process like last year’s tragedy with Johnny Hybrid.

Photos by Marco Torres/HoustonPress and Mark Herman Reyes.

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When he's not roaming around the city in search of tacos and graffiti, Houston Press contributor Marco Torres both writes and points his camera lens toward the vibrant Houston music scene and beyond.

Contributor Mark Reyes is a native Houstonian, seventh generation Texan, A&M alum, expert in all things Star Trek (ToS), and an avid comic book collector (DC). Mark enjoys documenting current events and...