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Ta-daa! It's officially Hi-Ex Eve! Headin' off to the airport in a matter of minutes. Must begin packing...

Looking forward to this immensely! Hope to see lots of you there!

Cheers,
Mike

Link: http://www.hi-ex-co.uk" target="_blank">Hi-Ex!

Just heard from His Lordship Rac: They're at the hotel and all geared up for the con!

For those worried about the weather, Inverness looks overcast but clear right now. Check out the webcam link below: you can even control where it's pointing! Well, you can choose from a list of options. Let's try to control it at the same time and see if we can break it.

Link: http://www.highlandhouseoffraser.com/" target="_blank">Inverness live webcam

The Trevor Hairsine pic is up now... And it's fantastic!

Link: http://www.hi-ex.co.uk" target="_blank">Where we'll all be next weekend: Hi-Ex!

Just curious... Anyone else from Ireland going to Hi-Ex?

Just added pics of the latest donations to the Auction...

Man, there's going to be a fun (and quite possibly brutal) bidding war over these beauties!

Link: http://www.hi-ex.co.uk" target="_blank">Hi-Ex website

The media are beginning to sit up and take notice...

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7194176.stm" target="_blank">BBC News website

I've added a larger version of Richard Elson's Dredd page to the Hi-Ex site: just click on the thumbnail image on the Auction page!

Link: http://www.hi-ex.co.uk" target="_blank">Hi-Ex!

>Ah, but through Mike's Migic, the bar on the right displys a random selection of logos every time you click on the page, so they all get an even shot at being seen!

Rac does not lie! We did this deliberately so as not to have two scrollbars on the screen (which can be confusing, as well as ungainly).

Cheers,
Mike "everyone please buy my new book" Carroll

Er... See you, Jimmy!

And so on.

I'm pretty sure that Miracleman: Apocrypha made it into print too, though I've never seen a copy.

For me, nothing has ever beaten the adrenaline rush from the last level of the first episode of the original Quake when that bloody enormous thing comes soaring out of the lava. Scared the bloody pants off me (and my wife, who was watching at the time).

Oh, that IS nice!

Wait... Is it a Webite or a Wesite?

;)

If you were to buy only one of all the collected editions of all the old 2000 AD material, the third Strontium Dog Case File would be the one to pick.

Not that the others aren't brilliant... It's just that this one is more brilliant!

-- Mike

Here's one that gets me all choked up every time (dialogue nicked from IMDb)... The last line in particular is delivered with such gravitas that even reading it now I'm getting one of those shudders...

[as Jor-El is preparing to send his son to Earth before the destruction of Krypton, Lara enters the room with the infant, Kal-El]
Lara: Have you finished?
Jor-El: Nearly. It's the only answer, Lara. If he remains here with us... he will die as surely as we will.
Lara: But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives, thousands of years behind us.
Jor-El: He will need that advantage to survive. Their atmosphere will... sustain him.
[He looks at his son and walks over to the area where the ship that will carry Kal-El lies. There are information crystals placed in slots on the edges]
Lara: He will defy their gravity.
Jor-El: He will look like one of them.
Lara: He won't be one of them.
Jor-El: No. His dense molecular structure will make him strong.
Lara: He'll be odd. Different.
Jor-El: He'll be fast. Virtually invulnerable.
Lara: Isolated. Alone.
Jor-El: He will not be alone.
[He holds up a clear crystal and takes a long look at it]
Jor-El: He will never be alone.
[He places it in one of the slots along with the other crystals in the ship]