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Ryu’s Tokyo was exciting. It was Shibuya[1] with its game rooms, pachinko parlors, love hotels and its boys and girls with torn clothes and bleached hair. His Tokyo was Shinjuku with its high-end western restaurants, Roppongi’s smoking jazz clubs and Ikebukuro with its sleazy hostess...

Crazy Chemicals

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WonderCon 2010

WONDERCON 2010 April 2-4, 2010 WonderCon, one of the country’s best comics conventions returns to Moscone Center South in San Francisco April 2–4, 2010. An amazing roster of special guests from the worlds of comics and science fiction/fantasy will be a major highlight for fans at...

Zombie FX

Fix that face, will you? What’s a zombie to do? If the makeup isn’t just right, call on Ed Martinez. Ed does special effects make-up. So if a creepy creature needs to powder his or her half-gone nose, he’s the man. In addition to his work on films like The Dead Pit and The Dead and the...

Alien Madness

Alice is smashing, 3-D and all, but of course I’ll dig up a moldy oldy: Mars Attacks. Oh, I love the alien invasion, the abductions, the eschewing of hypocritical human peacemaking. Art Land: If the Martians land, they’re gonna need a place to stay. Just like everybody else....