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Title: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 03 November, 2016, 11:46:36 AM
Its back at Royal Concert Hall next year for 1 day rather than weekend, few details yet...

http://www.glasgowcomiccon.com/

Ages away yet so loads of time for us to confirm, make excuses and then cancel the day before.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 03 November, 2016, 02:16:12 PM
Yay, downsizing!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Buttonman on 03 November, 2016, 05:04:11 PM
I normally only make the Saturday anyway so this doesn't affect me at all!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 November, 2016, 05:07:29 PM
That downsizing is due to the turnout from this very forum :-X
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 03 November, 2016, 05:16:33 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 November, 2016, 05:07:29 PM
That downsizing is due to the turnout from this very forum :-X

I've been to every one so far and last years was a fucking triumph! Quality over quantity  :P
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 November, 2016, 06:32:44 PM
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7409/28057898945_6d8ede9194_n.jpg)

Quote from: Satanist on 03 November, 2016, 05:16:33 PM
I've been to every one so far and last years was a fucking triumph! Quality over quantity  :P

No judging by that fotae!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Buttonman on 04 November, 2016, 06:42:47 PM
The background in that photo makes it look like a panel from a very poor comic strip.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 04 November, 2016, 06:48:40 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 04 November, 2016, 06:42:47 PM
The background in that photo makes it look like a panel from a very poor comic strip.

Yup. Could be a Clint Langley with the usual photo-realistic almost-humans... before he remembered that Drawing Is Best and scribbled in a Shaky Kane backdrop.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 November, 2016, 11:22:02 AM
I thought it was a pat Mills Team intro, as you all look far too silly to be real.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 December, 2016, 01:36:58 PM
Can I be the first to withdraw from this? have plans to invade the soft underbelly of Europe about then.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Tiplodocus on 07 December, 2016, 04:59:12 PM
See that's where the real fun is.

Any idiot can plan and attend an event.

But it takes real skill to plan and not turn up more than six months in advance.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 08 December, 2016, 01:39:36 AM
Hmmm- if push comes tae shove, I reckon I could do early bus down, late bus back and save on slum-dosshoose overnighters, unless there's a meet-up in some dingy, weegie drinking-hovel the night before.
Early doors yet, but I'm a provisional yes, with added butteries-baggage to tempt the waverers.

For now...
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Trout on 09 December, 2016, 09:09:02 AM
I can't believe I missed this thread before, thus being late to the party in slagging off the photo.

Er, Trainspotting 2 is a bit low-budget. Yeah, that'll do.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 December, 2016, 05:44:40 PM
Quote from: Trout on 09 December, 2016, 09:09:02 AM
I can't believe I missed this thread before, thus being late to the party in slagging off the photo.

Er, Trainspotting 2 is a bit low-budget. Yeah, that'll do.

You're a bit early, that's Trainspotting Five: Children of the porn
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 02 January, 2017, 11:44:33 PM
As always I'll be going and doing my usual Morrissey impression:
"so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die"
I hope everybody has a fine time.  :D
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Trout on 03 January, 2017, 01:19:32 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 December, 2016, 05:44:40 PM
Quote from: Trout on 09 December, 2016, 09:09:02 AM
I can't believe I missed this thread before, thus being late to the party in slagging off the photo.

Er, Trainspotting 2 is a bit low-budget. Yeah, that'll do.

You're a bit early, that's Trainspotting Five: Children of the porn

Please make this film
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 03 January, 2017, 01:44:02 AM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 02 January, 2017, 11:44:33 PM
As always I'll be going and doing my usual Morrissey impression:
"so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die"
I hope everybody has a fine time.  :D

Stomm! Just 6 months to go.
Better make a start on that Scarlet Witch cossie...

Say Hi, 8-Ball!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 03 January, 2017, 01:56:42 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 02 January, 2017, 11:44:33 PM
As always I'll be going and doing my usual Morrissey impression:
"so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die"
I hope everybody has a fine time.  :D

(http://images.memes.com/meme/179712)
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 19 February, 2017, 12:05:58 PM
Tickets are now on sale here...

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-comic-con-tickets-32116619674

Still no guests named as yet.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Buttonman on 19 February, 2017, 05:44:08 PM
£7.89 for the day - I could head the guest list and it'd still be cheap! That said £7.89 would buy three pints in the Wetherspoons. Decisions!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 19 February, 2017, 07:15:51 PM
Ticket bought :)

filippo
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 19 February, 2017, 07:53:31 PM
Paypal? Again? Nope.  >:( Please tell me that I can purchase a ticket elsewhere. And yes, I do see that I can purchase a ticket on the day but I would rather get one in advance of having to travel all the way to Glasgow.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 19 February, 2017, 08:23:12 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 19 February, 2017, 07:53:31 PM
Paypal? Again? Nope.  >:( Please tell me that I can purchase a ticket elsewhere. And yes, I do see that I can purchase a ticket on the day but I would rather get one in advance of having to travel all the way to Glasgow.

Ignore previous meltdown. Ticket purchased. :D See you all there.  :wave: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: JUDGE BURNS on 19 February, 2017, 10:11:15 PM
I was there last year,  with my son as  Kid Deadpool :-)
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: sheridan on 20 February, 2017, 02:13:56 AM
Were you in Hammersmith last weekend?  With your son as a rookie?
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 20 February, 2017, 12:30:28 PM
@ Judge Burns.

Ha! I was standing in front of you and your son in the queue to get in last year. You both had great costumes.  :D
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: JUDGE BURNS on 06 March, 2017, 07:50:07 PM
8 ball  >>>   its hard to see out of the judge helmet when you are sweating big time in the leathers.  Should be there again on july 1st, I might try and bring my Death costume if I get round to upgrading it.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 06 March, 2017, 08:00:24 PM
I shall be on holiday. Sorry. Have fun. And if you have fun, have a drink. It's a good substitute.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:35:44 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 06 March, 2017, 08:00:24 PM
I shall be on holiday. Sorry. Have fun. And if you have fun, have a drink. It's a good substitute.

just don't touch the spoons!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 11 March, 2017, 12:26:14 AM
In these post-brexit times it's looking pretty shaky for me attending this year atm. You may have to find someone else to use as a Boarder sign-post this time, I'm afraid- The Huff is tall and may prove a suitable alternative should he be away from the bar long enough to stay upright...  :lol:
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 13 March, 2017, 11:46:08 AM
Quote from: Dog Deever on 11 March, 2017, 12:26:14 AM
In these post-brexit times it's looking pretty shaky for me attending this year atm.

FFS! I still haven't experienced the taste sensation of butteries.

Looks like they are (slowly) announcing guests with the first being Marguerite Sauvage.

Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 13 March, 2017, 07:32:37 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 13 March, 2017, 11:46:08 AM
Quote from: Dog Deever on 11 March, 2017, 12:26:14 AM
In these post-brexit times it's looking pretty shaky for me attending this year atm.

FFS! I still haven't experienced the taste sensation of butteries.

Looks like they are (slowly) announcing guests with the first being Marguerite Sauvage.

Soon my friend, soon- perhaps there IS a way... mum's the word/ you ain't seen me right... etc etc.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 20 April, 2017, 09:20:00 PM
Some dude called Pat Mills will be there
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 01 May, 2017, 07:23:39 PM
Is that one half of the writing partnership of numerous romance fiction tales?
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 02 May, 2017, 10:06:43 AM
Quote from: Dog Deever on 01 May, 2017, 07:23:39 PM
Is that one half of the writing partnership of numerous romance fiction tales?

I think you've got him confused with Pat Boone  :)
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 02 May, 2017, 09:54:15 PM
Laurence Campbell, Fraser Irving, John Wagner and Tom Foster have just been announced as guests.

filippo
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 03 May, 2017, 01:03:35 PM
is there an alternate way of getting a ticket? I don't have paypal anymore
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: GordonR on 03 May, 2017, 03:54:28 PM
Quote from: The Monarch on 03 May, 2017, 01:03:35 PM
is there an alternate way of getting a ticket? I don't have paypal anymore

Best to ask the actual con organisers at the Contact Us tab on their website?
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: The Monarch on 03 May, 2017, 06:33:10 PM
its my fault for not noticing the small print :lol:

apparently it'll be two quid expensiver but i can get them on the day. So i'll be there
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: JUDGE BURNS on 20 May, 2017, 11:22:04 PM
Looking forward to be on patrol here again on the 1st July.  Cant believe I missed Brain Bolland there though . Argh !!   Must be more organised for this years event.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 14 June, 2017, 05:35:14 PM
Could equally well fit in the Life Sucking thread, but work-stomm continues unabated and July 1st is a major deadline. See little chance of making this year's com. Bah. One of many cancellations...

Enjoy yerselves!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 16 June, 2017, 12:15:38 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 14 June, 2017, 05:35:14 PM
Could equally well fit in the Life Sucking thread, but work-stomm continues unabated and July 1st is a major deadline. See little chance of making this year's com. Bah. One of many cancellations...

Enjoy yerselves!

I'll raise a glass in your absence.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 20 June, 2017, 09:57:07 PM
Floor plan has been released
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204301_zpsqhvor2ap.png) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204301_zpsqhvor2ap.png.html)
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204322_zpsg19y2k4c.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204322_zpsg19y2k4c.jpg.html)
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204211_zpsccaedzic.png) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20170620_204211_zpsccaedzic.png.html)

filippo
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 26 June, 2017, 09:14:41 AM
Heads up that Pat Mills is signing at Glasgow Forbidden Planet on Friday 30/06/17. So if you cant make the con can still try and catch Mr Mills then.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 27 June, 2017, 10:49:29 AM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 16 June, 2017, 12:15:38 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 14 June, 2017, 05:35:14 PM
Enjoy yerselves!
I'll raise a glass in your absence.

Cheers man  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 30 June, 2017, 09:46:55 PM
Tshirt ready for tomorrow, any boarders that I don't know and see me please feel free to say hello, I don't bite unless asked nicely:)
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0882_zpszbw3bpp2.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0882_zpszbw3bpp2.jpg.html)

filippo
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 30 June, 2017, 11:07:29 PM
Have butteries, will travel.
Though there seems to have been a problem with them sending me my ticket, several times. They have assured me that as a stop gap I have been added to the guest list and there will be no problem getting in
Obviously, I'm skeppy.
See yez there.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Bolt-01 on 04 July, 2017, 11:10:45 AM
Well, how was it?
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: 8-Ball on 04 July, 2017, 02:00:05 PM
Incredibly crowded. I lasted about an hour of being "kettled" before I had to leave the venue. The highlight for me was the little kid dressed up as Deadpool from the Marvel comics/hit movie. He took the irreverence of the character to heart by basically giving cheek to everyone that he met.  :D As per usual I didn't bump into anyone from this parish but I hope that they all had a good time.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Tiplodocus on 05 July, 2017, 09:13:42 PM
I missed it. I thought it was THIS coming weekend. Doh!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 06 July, 2017, 10:32:11 PM
Sounds rubbish!  ;)
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Dog Deever on 11 July, 2017, 01:17:14 AM
Glasgow Comic Con 2017 report...

There was a huge queue when I arrived 'fresh' from my early-morning megabus arse-grinding, so I decided to freshen up outside with a quick cig and bumped into Flip-R. Managed to bypass the queue pretty deftly and got in without any problem at all. It was all a bit of a whirlwind what with it being on one day only, and other than Flip-R, Satanist and Alex Ronald, I didn't see any other boarders.

Being pretty skint and unable to drink due to having to drive back from Inverness late-night meant I was only window-shopping the comics mostly, though I did get issues 3&4 of Rok off John and was compelled to buy issue 1 of Comichaus which I'd heard about and wanted to check out. The bar wasn't open.

That's right...
NO FUCKING BAR!!!
I wasn't drinking, but a bar is a nice social hub to take time-out and socialise which is really what I go for. Spent pretty much the whole day with Flip-r and occasionally bumping into Satanist (many thanks for the cholesterol-for-comic exchange) and a nice guy I didn't know whose name I have shamefully forgotten (maybe Billy?)
I managed to catch the Pat Mills talk, but missed the other 2k one.

There was some sort of meet up at a weird wooden multi-level bar afterwards so Flip, Billy(?) and I headed  along there after dosing up on more caffeine. I couldn't stay long though as I'm always paranoid about missing buses, especially when I'm getting the last one out. Bumped into Colin Mac and a couple of others in the bar before I had to shoot off, which was good as I had his consignment of contraband Northern delicacies stashed safely in my pocket. With the southern barbarians supplied with proper rolls, my work was done and it was time to think about nodding like a dog in a sitting position for 4 hours or so.

Bus station entertainment was different this time. Instead of watching gouching weegie junkies steal sandwiches, I had a minor argument with a retired Welsh woman about the nature of the journey home, which went along these lines...
"Is this the right stance for the bus to Inverness?"
"Aye"
"Why doesn't it say Inverness on the board? It says it's Perth..."
"Aye, the bus will be gan tae Eberdeen or Dundee, the Inverness bus is comin' fae Embra, so we have tae change at Perth."
"No we don't"
"Aye, we do"
"No we don't"
"Aye we do... onto one of Stagecoach's shittiest, auldest buses still in-service. It will be noisy, rickety, cold and with seats like church pews."
"The bus down was really comfortable, it was really nice, a big gold one"
"Aye, the Gold service is mair upmarket, costs extra- this one is the scumbag bus.. the M service. It's pish and doesnae go straight tae Inverness... we change at Perth."
"Well it doesn't say so on my ticket..."
"Mine either, but we still change at Perth"
etc.

Inside my head, I was bellowing "Listen ba'heid, you dinna even ken this is the right fuckin stance, ye fuckin neep, so dinna try tellin' me I'm fuckin wrang when I fuckin ken I'm right, so shutit". However, I was concerned she might think me some unwashed, yellow-haired yobbo...
Her hubby had presumably been ground down by decades of exactly this, as he sidled up when she wandered off for a bit and said
"You can't tell her anything, but thanks for the help"
I just laughed, flashed my wedding ring and said
"aye, tell me aboot it. Ye have tae prove 'em wrang and I will- yer in the right stance and we change at Perth or ye'll end up in Dumpdee or scAberdeen and nu'hin is worth the risk o' slummin it wi' Eastern savages overnight, min"

Anyway- we changed at Perth, onto a shitty, rickety, cold bus with seats like church pews. It was full of screechy teenage girls freaked at a complement of moths in residence. Can't sleep in an enclosed space with those annoying weirdos, so I had to carry out a number of summary executions as I watched the bus with the comfy seats head off to Dundee, before nodding all the way back to civilisation.

Back in Inversneck, the pubs were starting to spill out inebriated Sneckers onto the street, some of whom tried talking to me as I hot-footed it across the water to my waiting car, but I was in no mood for niceties as my backside had apparently entered a parallel universe- at least, I kept having to check if it was still there.

I can only assume that the lack of Satanist aftermath posts on this thread means he ate all his butteries himself and has died of coronary heart disease or over-salting.

No pics to break up this drivel with, as I cannot be arsed recording the minutae of my exciting, jet-set life in pictures just so's I can pretend anyone gives a fuck.

To sum up... went to Glasgow; saw some comics; had an argument with the Welsh; managed to avoid contact with Invernesians; got hame wi' a sair erse.
Report ends.

A poor showing from the Cal-Hab board regulars, so I expect to see the numbers up at the all-important Inveruriecon later this year. Be there, or be somewhere people have heard of.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Fungus on 11 July, 2017, 07:11:37 AM
Sounds great!
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Satanist on 12 July, 2017, 11:08:32 AM
Why Hellooooo!

Yeah con was cut short for me due to having my youngling with me.

Got some nice sketches from Tom Foster (wee one over the moon at his Dredd head)

Got Zombo books signed by Al Ewing for the boys.

Got loads signed off Pat Mills and a cheeky selfie. His talk was great!

A few good chats with all the above (aye the guys name is Billy)

Nae bar!!!  :'( but have now tasted butteries so can die a happy man (probs 5 year sooner haha) cheers mate!

No many of the regulars this year but still good to catch up and wish I could've stayed longer as Waxys sounded good.

Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Tiplodocus on 12 July, 2017, 01:20:32 PM
Aldi sell Butteries.  There's not any butter goes anywhere near them. But I love 'em.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Tjm86 on 12 July, 2017, 01:30:29 PM
Yeah but they only do AAA.
Title: Re: Glasgow Comic Con - 01 July 2017
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 July, 2017, 04:01:07 PM
Sounds pish glad I was sunning masell in the soft underbelly of Yourope.  :lol:


Nae Bar FFS!! WTF...