Just because I can't stop looking at these pages, here's a part of page 8 of the TIKITIS. With King Katch fighting zombies, voodoo style.

Ikaruga is an amazing game developed in 2002 by Treasure, one of the masters of 2D-based action games. Treasure is able to distill what made “old school” gaming great and finds innovate ways to push the essence of gaming greatness to its limits.Ikaruga originally came out for the Sega Dreamcast Console in 2002 and the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003. As with most shooters (which can be traced back to the classic Space Invaders and Galaga) you are a spaceship that needs to blow up everything it can as the level automatically scrolls you through various obstacles. Despite the gobs of enemies and bullets, one hit by the wrong bullet will lead to the loss of a life.One significant tweak to the Shooter Genre brings great depth to the gameplay experience. Your fighter can switch colors at the press of a button between being black or white. When you are black, you can absorb black bullets, but get hurt by white bullets. When you are white, the opposite happens.As you navigate through the game, you must decide which color your ship should be and appropriately avoid the opposite color bullets. Furthermore, when you are black your bullets are twice as effective on white enemies…when you are white you are twice as effective on black enemies. As you go through each level you really need to strategize where to position yourself and what color you should be to minimize risk and maximize point accumulation.There’s also a color based score multiplier that gives the game even more strategic depth…but I won’t go into that since 95% of the people that play this game (myself included) will have enough to worry about to stay alive!Ikaruga is almost sadomasochistic in its difficulty. But it’s brilliant design and deep gameplay are so fun that you’ll forget how badly you are being punished!Check out the video (above) to see a superior Ikaruga player playing through level 5 in “hard” mode.

This is some research by Bill for a new gang for the next chapter of the LUCHADORES FIVE. A mix between the creature of the black lagoon and the gang from OUTSIDERS.

Yesterday, Gobi sent me this character. As a specialist of Japanese folklore, he drew a Tengu. If you're wondering what a tengu is, you can click here.

Katsuhiro Otomo may be best known for his brilliant creation Akira (both the comic series and animation)...but I fondly admire him for his wonderful comic, Domu.Created just before Otomo began work on his Akira epic, Domu is a masterfully told tale of horror. A young girl with psychic powers investigates the mystery behind the haunted apartment building she lives in. What she uncovers leads to great destruction and discovery.Domu has an excellent sense of atmosphere. Based in the ghetto of Tokyo, Japan, you really feel the hopelessness that can exist in the dense urban environment. Horrific acts of violence in Domu manifest from our fears of failure and loneliness.If Akira is a fine glass of wine, Domu is a shot of Petron.Muttpop's Jerry Frissen graphically designed the French Edition of Domu (see the red cover below)...so in some weird way you can say that Domu has had the "Muttpop" touch!

Here's the LUCHA LIBRE pin up by the underground artist Max.