Tokyo Gore Night

This weekend was an NYAFF gore explosion, starting with Friday's premiere of Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. That was awesome and I'll definitely be posting a review on Otaku USA this week, but there was also a major Hungry Man meal to devour last night.

Tokyo Gore Night had Tokyo Gore Police director Yoshihiro Nishimura returning to the stage with Machine Girl director Noburo Iguchi (along with Tak Sakaguchi and VFX supervisor Tsuyoshi Kazuno) to screen all the TGP shorts, as well as Machine Girl Lite (or Shyness Machine Girl or whatever else it's called). It was also Iguchi's 40th birthday, which, after Sakaguchi threw darts at everyone's asses in order to grant admittance to samurai school, led to audience spankings and gift presentation.

I'd love to caption every picture, and maybe I'll start to now, but go ahead and check out the photo album below for some highlights.

Tokyo Gore Night

UPDATE: Alright, friends and foes alike, I ended up captioning every photo. Give 'em a peek!

Super Joe Comics 1

Here's the deal. JoE Shieh and I, inspired by the Laserpony Studios collaborative comics that can be found over at Nedroid (here is a sample), did an improvised trade-off short. We started this, the first of many to come, a couple weeks ago. I did the first panel, he did the second, and so on, each with no clue how the other would continue it. Okay, you get the point.

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Smokin' Pat

Here, enjoy an eerily accurate portrait of Pat that I did last night.

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JLR Exclusive: The Thing: Clobberin' Time

How appropriate that E3 is going on right now. While in Louisville, I unearthed these age old "design docs" for a beat 'em up called THE THING: CLOBBERIN' TIME. Our research puts this somewhere around Earth Date 199X, when I was attending Middle School. Let's have a closer look, okay? Please click each image to enlarge and study.

Just look at that sweet cover art. The game is apparently disc-based.

The first stage is a doozy: "The Streets." Note the appearance of my obsession with enemies. Also, I'm pretty sure the bosses exist based on the Toybiz toys I had scattered around me.
Check out The Mines! One can only assume that Hulk has been captivated by some sort of mind control device, thus making him your sworn enemy.
It figures that Fantastic Four HQ would be loaded with such a nefarious Trash Compactor mini-boss.
The frightening mini-boss trend continues in Latveria. But will The Thing be able to escape the might of... TERRAX?
Note the grim mystery surrounding Doc Doom. Then go look at the cover of the game again and realize his face is visible there. But he is not your final foe. That honor belongs to...
THE MASTER COMPUTER (gasp!).
And we end it all on a somewhat revolutionary note: a first-person escape sequence!

A Challenger Appears

It's Memorial Day and I'm in Louisville watching Land of the Lost episodes on SciFi. Right now they're going absolutely buck wild with the prismatic effects in the ominously titled "The Possession." Baby brontosaurus wheeling around logs while Chaka carries a hypnotic, power-transferring baton.

I'm buried in a ton of crap I wish I could bring back to Hoboken with me. Lots of manga. I mean LOTS of manga. The cons outweigh the pros, because as much as I love already being smothered by media in my thimble of a room, adding more to the pile doesn't really entice me. I do, however, want to bring back a bunch of crappy old art/comics to scan and post. I have one scanned already that I may post later.

For now, face this new challenger.

Gas Baby: Chapter 5, Page 75

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At long last, chapter 5 has come to a shocking conclusion! Stay tuned, though, because this baby's tale has only just begun...

Gas Baby: Chapter 5, Page 74

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One more page to go in this chapter!