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I never thought I’d see a modern gaming rag with Splatterhouse on the cover, but it seems EGM has that covered now. I shouldn’t be too surprised, what with all the old franchises making modern comebacks, but it’s still pretty rad.

The Splatterhouse series was never really GREAT, and some may argue that it was never GOOD (though I will slap these people with an iron gauntlet), but it’s super memorable for being grody and obscenely violent and pretty much everything else that my young game-loving self wanted to play.

It’s definitely up there on the all too light list of “Gross-out Games.”

I’ve been on a major Ralph Bakshi kick lately. I know I’m 35 years late on this one in particular, but Heavy Traffic is probably the first movie that I’ve watched twice in one day in the last decade or so.

Well, as I’m sure you’ll all be pained to discover, one of my many fancy countdown timers hath been smote. For a while there, I was like The King of Shekels with an armful of golden watches. However, after receiving some alarming news from Mister Black, followed swiftly by some less alarming but somewhat disappointing news, I’ve decided that you won’t see Midnight Meat Train‘s countdown until this summer. Both “news clippings” will appear after the image.

From Twitch:

All is not well in the land of Ryuhei Kitamura’s adaptation of Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train. It was yanked from Liongate’s release schedule to accommodate a last minute retitling – it’s now known simply as Midnight Train – and the rumblings are that it may end up going direct to video with the planned theatrical release abandoned.

And then, from Bloody Disgusting:

Contrary to reports from recent test screenings, Lionsgate’s publicity page has been updated leaving the title of their Clive Barker adaptation in tact. The Midnight Meat Train is now slated for release on August 1, 2008. Don’t forget to check out a crazy bloody still here. The story features a commuter’s run-in with a New York subway serial killer and a horde of subterranean cannibals. Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Alive) directed this R-rated bloodfest.

Would it sound… like this!?

This week on Patrick Macias’ newly theme-songed Otaku USA podcast, I mash minds with Macias to mull over the mastery of the most magical man of marvelous myth, Stan Lee, in preparation for Patrick’s interview with… Stan Lee! Then comes the interview itself, followed by a very rousing read-a-long of Thor #171, with myself in the role of The Mighty One and Patrick as The Wrecker (who doth attack)!

Prepare thyself!

This ended up looking more like Akira Toriyama Presents Gay Black Frankenstein, but I think the concept is pretty self explanatory. Method: sloppy charcoal usage for the first time since high school.

Click to enlarge. I had to take a photo so I wouldn’t soil my scanner