Ever wondered whether the Batmobile might make your commute cooler? Or if mind control might secure you a date? You are not alone. In turbulent times, with unemployment high, terrorists running wild and true love elusive, many people wish they had super powers. Some make that fantasy explicit by dressing the part. Over Labour Day weekend more than 62,000 daydreamers flocked to Atlanta for the 28th Dragon Con, an annual shindig celebrating comic books, sci-fi and lycra-clad crusaders for justice. One visitor, Brittany Lea, says she loves the gathering as it allows people "really to be themselves". Which in her case involves dressing up as someone completely different. Ms Lea's day job is selling shoes in south Georgia; at Dragon Con she wears a bright red catsuit and pretends to be Deadpool, a superhuman-ly lethal Marvel comics assassin.
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