Photos: Welcome to the 2018 Comic-Con world of fantasy

Thomas Napper, cosplaying as the Amazing Spiderman, leaps off a railing.

People take pictures together at Marvel’s #GroupHug pop-up on the third day of the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International.  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Nick Phillips of San Diego holds a sign while people wait in line for panels in the Indigo Ball Room.

Kathrynn Cobbs of Los Angeles points to group member Dalton Ross in the interrogation room in the Amazon Prime Jack Ryan activation event.  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

A participant in the Amazon Prime Jack Ryan activation ducks to avoid enemy combatants in a VR simulation.  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Sheila Marler cosplaying as steampunk Catwoman and David Marler cosplaying as Captain Time walk down Fifth Avenue in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter.

A capacity crowd packs the 2018 Comic-Con exhibition hall floor.

Brandon Isaacson, 35, of Alameda poses for pictures as “McThor,” a combination of Marvel’s Thor and McDonald’s Ronald McDonald, outside of Hall H.

A group makes their way through the Castle Rock activation event.

James Lavelle, cosplaying as the Future Foundation costume Spider-Man, walks down a hallway inside a DC Universe activation site.

Austen Bue, 11, from San Diego sends a text message to space, at the Hsitory Channel’s “Project Blue Book” activation site.

Lauren Quan, 18, fo San Diego, and Caroline Duong, 18, of San Diego are pulled back by a hydraulic system at Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger activation event.

Angel Mendoza of San Diego walks down 5th Street with an American flag on the first day of the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Lee Joyner demonstrates a sculpting technique at the Cinema Makeup School booth in Hall H during the first day of the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International.

A squad of costumed Spider-Man fans — (alphabetically) Brandon Buisan, Paul Buisan, Kate Friedo, Nona Golan, Jacob Lavelle, James Lavelle and Milan Lavelle — poses for pictures outside of the DC experience area on the first day of the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International.

People dressed with the Court of Owls masks from DC Comic’s Batman at work in a maze building.

At left, Tim Walker, 26, of San Diego, and Julia Homitano, 27, of San Diego, take a selfie with zombies while waiting in line at “The Walking Dead” booth.

Tyler Lokum, 8, of Los Angeles offers his lollipop to a Mega Construx of the Pokemon Blastoise at the Mega Construx booth during a preview of the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Fans raise their cell phones to take video of an animatronic performance at the Deadpool booth.