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Cospets gives pets a chance to get in the cosplay fun

ByWesley Coburn|
SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 20: A dog is dressed as Captain America outside outside Comic-Con on July 20, 2018 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. More than 100,000 are expected at the annual comic and entertainment convention. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 20: A dog is dressed as Captain America outside outside Comic-Con on July 20, 2018 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. More than 100,000 are expected at the annual comic and entertainment convention. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The web series Cospets gives pets a chance to get into the fun of cosplay.

Sometimes you want to dress up, especially if it’s cosplay. Our pets enjoy dressing up, too (sometimes), which is what Cospets is all about.

The new series airs on SYFY’s YouTube channel SYFY WIRE, and each episode features a new celebrity and their pet, sort of like if Animal Planet and the San Diego Comic-Con partnered on a  mashup of Queer Eye and Say Yes to the Dress. 

Each episode features a consultation with costume designer Katheryn Renfroe, which leads to “an out of this world pet transformation complete with tailor-made costumes inspired by characters and creatures from the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and horror,” according to a press release.

Human guests include YouTuber Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen, actress Taylor Plecity (Overwatch), and late night host Lilly Singh (Late Night with Lilly Singh), and animal guests include dogs named Elliotte and Miss Tricks, Instagram French Bulldog Pierre, cats, Rocket Larry the tortoise and a bearded dragon lizard called Menace.

The series, which premiered in August, drops new episodes on Tuesdays and consists of eight episodes in total.

Cosplay is where fans create elaborate reproductions of their favorite characters’ outfits, with the  most popular genres coming from superhero movies, Star Wars and anime shows. It’s a massive deal on Instagram.

Sci-fi pioneer (and prolific author) Isaac Asimov once defined the events of science fiction as being possible, since they were grounded in science, while fantasy was impossible, since it wasn’t grounded in reality. Asimov also created the Three Universal Rules of Robotics, which almost every robot in history has followed since.

Using this definition, some of the works of Neil Gaiman (Stardust, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) and Stephen King (From a Buick 8, Christine) could be considered fantasy.

For more on superhero news in comics, TV and movies, see our sister site Bam Smack Pow, and for more on a little of everything from a feminine perspective, see our sister site Culturess. .

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