Wipe the dust from your red cape: The comics are back in town.

Burn Notice star Bruce Campbell and costume contests are just some of the attractions at Florida SuperCon, South Florida's biggest comic-book and anime convention, this weekend at the Doubletree Miami Mart Convention Center.

Florida SuperCon is a great, inexpensive way for fans to meet, show off their costumes and spend a weekend reveling in their hobby, says Mike Broder, founder and producer of the event.

''This is their place to geek out,'' he says.

Among the geektastic events are costume and ''cosplay'' (short for ''costume play'') contests, video-game tournaments, meet-and-greet and question-and-answer sessions with celebrities, and workshops on topics like cosplay modeling, costume making and ``affordable cosplay for those who can't sew.''

New nerdy events include a lip-synch cosplay battle of the bands Friday -- expect to see bands like Josie and the Pussycats or Sailor Moon and Her Sailor Scouts -- and ''SuperCon Mania,'' in which attendees dressed as their favorite cartoon characters will wage battle inside a wrestling ring.

But the geek flag may fly highest at what Broder says is SuperCon's ''most anticipated'' event: the Smash Brothers 3000 Epic Battle Super Show, a live-action show featuring Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and other characters in various plots. Last year, the show featured a Luigi murder mystery and characters battling evil ninjas.

The celebrity lineup includes comic-book legends like X-Men Forever creator Chris Claremont, Edi Gathegi (who plays Laurent the vampire in Twilight), Stanislav Ianevski (Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), and Ted Raimi (brother of director Sam Raimi).

And then there's Campbell -- who aside from acting on TV is a B-list movie star. He appears in Evil Dead, a low-budget horror film about five college students who find a tape of demonic recordings while vacationing in an isolated cabin. The 1981 film spawned a host of sequels and the careers of, among others, Sam Raimi, who was writer and director.

Campbell, who also writes and directs, is a top draw on the horror and comic circuits, Broder says.

''In our community, he's kind of a legend,'' says Broder, a former comic-book store owner who started SuperCon Florida in 2006. He now plans events like SuperCon full time, and his upcoming projects include a Twilight convention and a Futurama reunion at this year's AnimeCon.

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