Escape at the 2023 New York Comic Con

When even the Naked Cowboy, despite being an emphatic Trump supporter, was heard recently on a WNYC talk show decrying the deleterious effects of climate change on a performer clad only in his tighty whities (tighty righties?) you know that the world is going to Hell in a jockstrap.

If dressing up and switching personas is the ultimate form of escapism, then, considering the shape of the world right now, we can all use some serious cosplay.

And so they came for yet another New York Comic Con, up the steep 7 train escalators — high-stepping superheroes, supervillains, psychos, warriors, zombies, gender benders and blenders, anime heartthrobs, and whatever fantasies one can get lost in — if only over a four-day weekend.

Photographer Greg Cohen took to the subways and streets to capture the ids on parade.

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