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Slowly deleting comments from this post, which has become the Pearl Harbor of blogging. Thanks, Japan, see if I ever make a soundtrack based on one of your comics again!

So 2009 is winding down, and you should expect some posts once more. However, thanks to the kaiju kommenting attack, there are some increased restrictions! I’m like TSA over here but slightly less lazy.

JoE Shieh—you might know him as That Taiwanese Dude That’s Obsessed with Lists—wants me to do some top ten nonsense, but I don’t know about that. There will definitely be some kind of recap in the near future, so keep your peepers peeled and don’t remove this blog from your RSS feed or whatever you use to browse Sandra Bullock’s The Net.

Or add it back if you already have, you filthy animals.

I want to kick this off with a couple things. First, I’d like to thank everyone who checked out my NES soundtrack to The Drifting Classroom. I worked really hard on it in my spare time and I’m pleased with how it turned out. It was received really well, dare I say, across the world! In fact, even original manga artist Kazuo Umezu seemed to enjoy it.

WOW is all I have to say to that. I can’t believe he’s holding a physical copy of the album in his home, and I have to give major thanks to voidmare over at Tokyo Scum Brigade for making it happen. Totally blows me away.

I’d also like to apologize for failing on my November promises. It turned out to be a mad busy month, so I wasn’t able to commit the amount of time I would have liked to this blog. Rest assured, it is not forgotten, and it never will be so long as it exists in the ether.

I do have a new piece of art for you. Over at the Electric Ant Zine blog, they have a “I Draw Your Shit” feature, in which everyone is invited to draw the characters of others. This time around it’s Lamar Abrams’ Max Guy, from his comic Remake, which I highly recommend to everyone. It’s funny, and charming, and charmingly funny, and stupid, and awesome.

You can see my puerile contribution here, It is #9 in a lineup of really good drawings.

Over at Beep City, I just released the debut Moldilox chiptune album: The Drifting Classroom. Based on Kazuo Umezu’s amazing 70s horror manga of the same name—available in its entirety from the fine folks at Viz Media—this would-be Famicom adaptation takes us from the opening cutscene (“Strange Future”) to the very end of Umezu’s sizzling tale.

Check it out! Download the full album and listen to all fourteen individual tracks here.

I have to say, I’m so disappointed in not having time to post more Wick’d Weirdos leading up to Halloween that I’m officially extending the holiday. In fact, I think you’ll find the next month to be a… NOVEMBER TO DISMEMBER!

I’m not leaving you completely out in the cold on Halloween, though. Over at Beep City, Brandon Fincher and I whipped up our very first chiptune collabo just in time for this dark ‘n dreary night of shrill shrieks.

Click the cart to check it out! Happy Smelloween!

Edit: Added a second track, “Un’atmosfera sinistra.”

While celebrating this week’s release of the new A Boy and His Blob game on Wii, I realized that a Christmas drawing from the good year 2006 is now relevant once more.

Go see it here (NSFW?)

I’ll also have you all know that Brandon is STILL the only one that actually received a prize from that contest. My original disclaimer really saved my butt there.