Babbling Point

Well, I finally did it. I wrote a story. A 24-page comic book script. Something I haven't done for a very long time. I sent the script to Mark and Gerry. Taps already gave his comments. Gerry just emailed and said that one scene in the story is all too similar to his story, which is why I sent it too him-- to check if I did rip him off. So, I now have to find a different way to end it. But that's okay. I wrote it and finished it and that's all that matters to me. I guess that's the best birthday gift I can give to myself. I turn 30 this Saturday and last year I had hopes that by this time I would have already published a full-color graphic novel. Well, I've got a 24-page script. It's a start. Maybe next year.

As some of you may have noticed (or not noticed at all), no Alamat comic book/book/project was released for the year 2002. I sent an email to the fine and wonderful people of Alamat last Monday, greeting them "Happy Anniversary" and pointing out that we've had no projects for the whole year and hope that in the coming year we will be busy. Well, in the past two days I've been informed of two really exciting projects that... I can't really announce right now. I'm just waiting for a go signal from the creators of those projects and we'll be announcing it like crazy. Everything should be set around end November. Abangan!

This month marks the beginning of Alamat Comics’ 8th year. Seems like every year is star-up mode for us. Below is an article which is suppose to appear in the revised Alamat website, but that might take awhile, so I’m posting it here. The Secret Origins of Alamat Alamat Comics started some twenty or so years ago, when we were still kids and made our own superheroes using crayons and papers, when we traced and copied our favorite characters and made up stories about them. Alamat Comics started in 1992, when comic book artist Whilce Portacio came home to the Philippines and judged a drawing contest. Hundreds of “Pinoy mutants” were submitted and it lined the walls of a ballroom, where the contest/ party/ autograph signing session was held. Little did we know that the people who later be the founding members of Alamat were all in that ballroom. Alamat Comics started in 1993, when a group of La Salle college students published the “first comic book” as far as Western ...

The Brotherhood of Annoying Movie-Goers Watched BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF last Saturday. I liked two out of the three hours of the movie. Well, maybe it wasn't really three hours long but it certainly felt like it. The fight scenes were great, even the scenes with the Beast were well done. But I think it was just too damned long. As you discover more and more about the secret of the Beast, you'd think the pace of the movie would go faster, leading you to the final revelation about the brotherhood, but NOOOO! We keep getting this pauses in the film where they devote time for this character and that character. At that point of the movie, all the set-up about plot and characters should have been done and we should be one our way to the ending. To make matters worse, behind us sat the Brotherhood of Annoying Movie-Goers. They were five or six guys that just had to give a running commentary through-out the movie. From the sound of it they were Magic: The Gathering pl...

Gerry in the Journal Dirk Deppey of THE COMICS JOURNAL reviews Gerry's site/blog. An interesting point-of-view from someone outside looking into the Filipino comic book scene. _