Ani-Com & Games fair puts the fun back into comic heroes

One of Asia's biggest animation and comic fairs opened in Hong Kong on Friday, attracting thousands of fans and bringing some fun back into super heroes after the Batman movie shootings in Colorado.

Thor, Spiderman, Captain America and Optimus Prime were just some of the costumes that enthusiasts sported on the opening day of the Ani-Com & Games fair, now in its 14th year in the southern Chinese city.

Paul Ho, 38, wore a home-made Iron Man costume as he strode around the harbourside exhibition centre with a group of friends dressed as other characters of comic-book legend.

"From spraying the paint to modifying it with fiberglass, it took five months to make this suit," the professional costume maker and...

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