TRESE 4 (now online)
Since it might take several weeks before we can get TRESE back in Comic Quest, I've uploaded the complete
story at:
http://tresekomix.blogspot.com/2006/04/trese-4-complete-story.html
Just helping you fulfill your summer reading requirement :)
Enjoy!
On a side note, I recently found an proposal I sent to Marvel back in 1999. It was pitch for a new mini-series under their MARVEL KNIGHTS
imprint. It's interesting how much of TRESE was based on that story, where I used several B-grade heroes and villians and even included twins who wore masks.
Just goes to show that sometimes, a rejected idea can become the source of your next material.
I am a Filipino – inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task – the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future. I am sprung from a hardy race – child many generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers. Across the centuries, the memory comes rushing back to me: of brown-skinned men putting out to sea in ships that were as frail as their hearts were stout. Over the sea I see them come, borne upon the billowing wave and the whistling wind, carried upon the mighty swell of hope – hope in the free abundance of the new land that was to be their home and their children’s forever. This is the land they sought and found. Every inch of shore that their eyes first set upon, every hill and mountain that beckoned to them with a green and purple invitation, every mile of rolling plain that their view encompassed, every river and lake that promised a plentiful living ...