Well guys, it's up. It's friggin' up. This one took a WHILE to put together. X-Entertainment's 2004 Halloween Season has been activated, and it's already bursting with creepy content -- but we're barely getting started! I'll make the intro quick, because I've been up all night on this and I'm ready for whatever creature this night calls itself to be over.

First of all, huge thanks to Brian Jacks for putting together what's gotta be one of the best layouts X-E's ever had -- and it may just be my personal favorite. As you can tell, it's a lot cleaner, sharper and just outright cooler yo than what I'm usually able to piece together from Google Images Searches and scanned Tang advertisements. I fucking love it, to be honest. Make sure to take notice of the new scrollbar on the list o' articles -- that'll keep the page from running a mile long from now on. Yay Ween! If you like what you see, send Brian some love in the comments. He worked really, really hard on this for us.

I'll get into the assorted other features tomorrow -- there's a great one near the bottom, and much much more to come. The 2004 Halloween Countdown has begun, with five days' worth of entries. They're all linked on the main page, but we'll have a master index for those as well come early next week. In case you missed the fun last year, here's how it works: everyday, from now until Halloween, a short spooky article gets published. It can be anything from Halloween candy to decorations to costumes to movies and beyond, infinity. The first batch is a good mix, but I've saved the extra ghoulish stuff for later. We've got chocolate, body parts, death soda, Shockfreakintober, and these weird pills that turn into skeleton-shaped sponges in water. I lack the energy to say anything else, but expect more insanely creepy content this weekend -- lots of it.

PS, I wrote this last night, obviously. We had a small technical issue that kept the site from going up till just now. Enjoy!