Photography from the How to Kill a Superhero Universe

Artist Cesar Torres has expanded the language of cosplay beyond performance and costume, treating it as a narrative and myth-making art form. Across the How to Kill a Superhero saga — and throughout the 2010s — Torres developed original cosplay concepts as a photographer and creator, staging bodies, spandex, and archetype as sites of transformation. These works explore queerness, gender identity, power, and myth through superhero and villain figures.

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