RAI CON 2016 - EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS...

Was at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall today with a pal, taking in RAI CON and snapping some photos.  This is the first of these type of events I've ever attended (dressing up isn't really my thing), but it was an okay way to spend the day.  Thanks to everyone who posed for a picture.  Were you there?  Share your thoughts in the comments section.

  

Here's KEV - looking happy and giving the
thumbs-up because his holidays are looming

This guy looks like trouble - I've got
a feeling he'll be popping up again

This gal sure believes in advertising

Here's a shot of the hall - seemed reasonably busy

Your money or your - wife, did he say?

At last - a bit of glamour

The girl in the middle has a real pretty face

Another shot of the hall

More glamour.  (Eh?)

Two hot babes - the heating was up full

Some fine examples of Glasgow's wildlife

This guy's a 'flash-in-the-pan'

Uh-oh!  Here's that guy again - with a pal

She's holding invisible dumbbells

Okay, I give in.  What are you hiding
behind your back, young lady?

LARRY, CURLY & MO - the three stooges amigos

At last - an actual artist.  Some nice work on display

He doesn't fool me by changing his
facewear - I've seen him before

Stop horsin' around

Just beamed down from the Starship ENTERPRISE by the look of it

Even BUZZ LIGHTYEAR got in on the act

The guy from RENTOKIL.  Maybe he's
after that wildlife in a previous photo?

The lady was being robbed by this masked
bandit, but they still posed for a photo

The return of some much-needed glamour

Okay, don't shoot - you can have one of my chips

Are this pair taking the pith?

A real couple of stars

Are you looking at me?

Some nice masks on display

DOCTOR DOOM

JUDGE DREDD

Dunno - anyone got a clue?

This guy's back again

The big one's a bloke - honest

A slide-show about Cosplay

The presenters.  Okay, that's yer lot!

BABES Of The DAY - MAGDA KONOPKA, VICTORIA VETRI & IMOGEN HASSALL...

I's a tough choice, but someone's

got to make it.  So which of this trio of

hot babes would you choose for the wife?

(If you ask me, I'd let your wife choose her

own girlfriends - we men have got more

 than enough to do as it is.  Heh.)

QUOTH The RAVEN... "NEVERMORE!"

One of my favourite poems is The RAVEN, and if you've never heard BASIL RATHBONE's amazing rendition of it, click on this link and listen to it after you've read and replied to this post.  Here's an interesting take on this rhyming masterpiece, illustrated by RICH CORBEN and first published in CREEPY #67, December 1974.  Got a comment to make about it?  Let's have some fun - try and do it in rhyme.  H'mm, that's got you thinking, hasn't it?  Go to it!

Here - I'll even start you off...

                                         Once, within a blog post cheery,

                                         Kid made many members leery,

                                         by asking them to pen their answers

                                         in rhyming style of days of yore.

                                         "Rats" they said, "that's sure a toughie,

                                         our poetic prose is stuffy,

                                         verse is weak, and meter fluffy,

                                         and our brains are soft and sore."

                                         "Please" I uttered, "don't be huffy,

                                         let your aspirations soar -

                                         'Tis a poem, nothing more."

(Yup, I'm tweaking it as we go along.)

See?  I'd never ask you to do something that I wouldn't be prepared to do myself. (Well, most of the time anyway.)

And below is the cover for all you completists.

(BOND) BABE Of The DAY - MARGARET NOLAN...

Here's magnificent MARGARET NOLAN, who

played delectable 'DINK' in the 1964 JAMES BOND

movie 'GOLDFINGER'.  What a darlin' - that 007

 fella sure knows how to pick 'em, doesn't he?!

The FLINTSTONES MEET FRANKENSTEIN & DRACULA...

The FLINTSTONES copyright HANNA-BARBERA Productions

Well, of course the FLINTSTONES couldn't ever meet FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA, mainly because the former are supposed to have lived in the prehistoric age, whereas the famous terror twosome didn't come along until centuries (if not millennia) later.  In the same way, it's impossible for the Flintstones to have observed Christmas or Easter (either in the TV show or in comicbooks), as neither of those traditions existed at the time.  Yeah, I know - I'm just being pernickety.  In the accompanying tale, the duo and their chums are transported back to the past via a time machine, making my opening observation just a little redundant.  Ah, well.

So read on and enjoy FRED and his family meeting Frankie and Drac, plus two of their other manic monster mates.