The mega convention Fan Expo Dallas brought together enthusiasts of anime, fantasy, comics, sci-fi, gaming and more for three days last weekend at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

KERA Morning Edition host Andrew Garcia and I were there for opening day and spoke to some of the hundreds of cosplay actors dressed as their favorite characters.

This was my first time at a fan convention like this, and although Andrew wasn’t quite the newbie I was, he’d never been to a fan con as large as this one and claimed to be out of the comic-book game for a few years now.

I suspected he was more of an expert than he let on, because he had no trouble identifying just about every comic-book character we encountered.

“Well, I do know the difference between Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate

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