The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on Kenichi Ugana’s Visitors (The Complete Edition): “When you get right down to it, peering through those milky demonic eyes, passing through the fountains of viscous green vomit, enduring the eye violence, and then running straight into the embrace of chainsaw-bladed arms, Kenichi Ugana’s Visitors (The Complete Edition) is at its heart a celebration of friendship, embracing differences, getting along, and the power of music. Sure, it starts with 3 friends checking on a fourth–who looks amazingly like Joey Ramone–after he has been out of touch too long. And then there’s the possession or monsterification or who really knows, because the friends are in a band and are not Monster Scientists. And then it’s all gibbering, splatter, maniacal laughter, gore, screaming, intestines, and chainsaws. But that’s just where Visitors starts, not where Visitors ends.”

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