Och...I just remembered that Wizard World - the Comic Con event here in Chicago - is on for Saturday. My dear comic-book-store-employee son will be working at it for a change...sell those back issues, boy! But, of course, daughter and I will attend...I'm hoping to talk my wife into it but I am insisting that she has to dress appropriately...anybody seen any Bat-Girl costumes in a womens' size twelve?

So that means trying to combine the world of comics and the kilt...I'm looking at a sort of Men-In-Black-gunfighter-Firefly-kilted look...don't worry, it'll be tasteful...I wouldn't embarass the Kilted Brethren by looking TOO nutsy. I've been threatening my kids that I'll get a genuine super-hero spandex Flash costume and wear it to the con...it's the idea of spandex on my ever-widening middle aged body that has them frightened. Fat Spiderman was there a few years ago...and to his credit, the guy wore the suit the whole day and never once broke character...now there was a guy with testicular fortitude!

So if you're a renegade alien or an eccentric evil genius or a hideously disfigured super villian, I guess that Wizard World would be a convenient place to hide out for a few days...nobody would ever pick you out of this crowd.

And I really hope that Batman tries to come up sith some snide comment about my kilt...then I can say, "...I'm wearing a SKIRT? Hey, buddy, you're the one wearing his UNDERPANTS on the OUTSIDE of his outfit!"

And I promise pictures...too good to pass up! Kenner always has a giant Star Wars action figure package that you can stand in and strike a pose with one of the many Star Wars weapons that they keep on hand...Obi Wan KILT-obi, here I come!

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