Comic fans wait outside the San Diego convention centre where the festival is being heldPhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesThe Comic-Con festival is the biggest of its kind in the western hemisphere with over 126,000 attendees last yearPhotograph: John Shearer/Getty ImagesA replica motorcycle from the Disney movie TRON on display. The festival showcases various pop culture arts including comic books, film, TV, science fiction and animationPhotograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
Lee Kim speaks to customers about his custom-made masksPhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesFans look over toys on display at the festivalPhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesErica Padilla has her photo taken in a Star Wars booth Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesKevin Fontana has his picture taken at The Blood Factory booth in Comic-Con InternationalPhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesA woman dressed as a zombie to promote the AMC television show The Walking Dead, outside the convention centrePhotograph: Gregory Bull/APRowan Weir in her original costumePhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesSteven Seiferer in a Captain America costumePhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesPanky Sui with attendees dressed as characters from the movie GhostbustersPhotograph: Gregory Bull/APComic-Con attendees dressed in armour wait for a mock battlePhotograph: Denis Poroy/AP(Left-right) Roxanna Meta talks with Psy Kitten Pow, and Albert Ng takes a picture of Mia BallisticPhotograph: Gregory Bull/APFans peruse the aisles at the conventionPhotograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images(Left-right) Actors Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner pose at the Tron: Legacy panelPhotograph: Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesComic-Con attendees in 3D glasses at the Megamind panelPhotograph: John Shearer/Getty Images for ParamountWill Ferrell, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill on the Megamind panel, with a cardboard cutout of Brad PittPhotograph: Kristian Dowling/EMPICS EntertainmentFreelance illustrator Tommy Castillo, from Florida, shows off some of his work Photograph: David Maung/EPAConvention attendees stay glued to monitors as they try soon-to-be-released video games Photograph: David Maung/EPAChase Matthies dressed as a character from HaloPhotograph: Denis Poroy/APA set of teddy bear zombiesPhotograph: David Maung/EPAA family dressed as characters from Tim Burton's Alice in WonderlandPhotograph: Denis Poroy/APAttendees dressed as "Chef Vader" and a storm trooper from Star WarsPhotograph: Mike Blake/ReutersTwo men in costume outside the San Diego convention centrePhotograph: Dan Steinberg/AP
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