Who's going to Hi-Ex 2012?

[Large48]

Lolsfox shhhhhhhhhhh............. 

[Dandontdare]

What a lovely weekend! Great to see some old faces and meet some new ones. As usual I got rather leathered on the Friday so I was hungover and discombobulated for the rest of the weekend. As for my "disappearance", we'd been turfed out of the hotel bar, loitered around the lobby for a while and then headed out in search of another bar. I thought we were just going round the corner, but when we got half way across town I realised we were never going to find one, so with a slurred seeya later, I began staggering back towards my bed. Nice to know I wasn't missed until later in the takeaway!

Here's a few pics:

I headed up a day early and took advantage of the insanely warm weather to explore Loch Ness, Drumndadrochit and Urquhart castle:



Our gracious hosts. Vicky didn't have much to say for herself but Richmond's shirts were loud enough for two:



Judge Burdis hands out some police brutality to an innocent convntioneer:



Hmmm ... if I can just raise another tenner I can stitch up this grinning eejit good and proper...



Success!



Al Ewing is forced to read all 58 chapters of "Judge Burdis Saves the City (and gets off with Beeny too)" and promise to show it to Tharg.



Buttonman is horrified by another of Trout's libellous anecdotes about the Nerve Centre:



The cosplay parade:



HOW MUCH porn does a lorry driver keep on his i-pad?



The frenetic pace of Sunday morning at a con...

[Trout]

It's only libel if you write it down. 

[Dandontdare]

then I'd best not write any of them down. Shame, as there were some crackers.... 

[Dark Jimbo]

Proper good weekend. Crackin' to meet so many boarders for the first time and be able to chat shit about Dredd and the forum into the small hours. Only a shame that I missed so many more or only managed the briefest of hello's, but I'm planning on trying to catch more cons from now on so can hopefully rectify this!

[Pete Wells]

Okay, my take on the weekend.

Friday night, Rob (Gronk Guy) picked me up in our passion wagon and off we went. He'd made sanrnies and everything, what a charmer! We got there at 10.45 to be met by a bar full of drunken, rowdy boarders. Many drinks were had and we went off into the night looking for more drinks and lap dancers, we got neither...

Saturday, or 'Black Saturday' as it shall now be known, was, in the main, a blast. I got to chat to loads of boarders and creators and was thoroughly entertained by John Higgins' Razorjack talk. I got to meet Doug Stanhope who's a bit of a hero of mine. However, this terrific buzz was cut short as I saw my hopes, dreams and aspirations cruelly snatched away, ripped up, trampled on, set on fire then pissed on by an evil, demonic shithouse. I spent much of Black Saturday night putting on a brave face as my fellow boarders offered me support in their own peculiar way, (and imagining Mr Leahy with his head on a block...) No the wonder I mistook banana fritters for chicken bites in the Chinese Restaurant and ate 'em with satay sauce. The night got better however, when I became the meat in a Burdis and Buttonman 3am sandwich, sorry Ben!

Sunday was a quiet affair. I could sense that many of my fellow boarders were a little tearful, like there was a big, block-shaped hole missing in their lives. Judge Vaughn, who I'm tipping to be the next Chief Judge, did a brilliant job of cheering us all up by subjecting us to an appalling movie with hilarious commentary. Tips' reunion with his sketchbook also provided a few scant moments of cheer before the blackness descended on us all again. I left Inverness knowing that the Loch Ness monster is indeed real, however, it comes in the shape of a drunken, hairy, and very loveable Irish fella. Who'd a thunk it?

[Proudhuff]

lets play: Spot the evil, demonic shithouse!

[Proudhuff]

I might deliberately go up to him with a donut say "this is from Dawn Mathieson" and eat it. Eat the whole donut right in front of him.

Foxlol, I did indeed eat a whole jam donought in front of the man, never explained anything, just eat it and left.

[Colin MacNeil]

Evenin' all!

Managed to get home ahead of the impending snow today. Huge amounts of brownie points to Rich and Vicky for arranging the most marvelous weather for Hiex. Well done!

I had a grand time at the weekend. The craic was most excellent. It was good to see everyone again and a few new faces too.

T-Rex on a bicycle?! Damn! Wish I'd thought of that!

[The Amstor Computer]

T-Rex on a bicycle?! Damn! Wish I'd thought of that!

If I remember correctly, when Rhiannon was umming & aahing about what to ask for you suggested "bicycle" shortly followed by "dinosaur", so it was nearly there!

[Colin MacNeil]

T-Rex on a bicycle?! Damn! Wish I'd thought of that!

If I remember correctly, when Rhiannon was umming & aahing about what to ask for you suggested "bicycle" shortly followed by "dinosaur", so it was nearly there!

Doh! I had two brain cells, but not the sense to rub them together. 

[JOE SOAP]

Brain cells are not for rubbing, that's why god gave you a penis.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

T-Rex on a bicycle?! Damn! Wish I'd thought of that!

If I remember correctly, when Rhiannon was umming & aahing about what to ask for you suggested "bicycle" shortly followed by "dinosaur", so it was nearly there!

Was I channelling Colin there?! If only that had extended to my art actually looking good - !!

[Albion]

About time I posted the sketches I got at Hi-Ex.
Mean Angel and also Johnny Alpha (This one is in the front cover of one of the sketchbooks he was selling) by Graeme Neil Reid

[Albion]

Dredd by fellow West Sussex resident, John Higgins.