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Announcement from PLANET X Be there for the grand opening of Planet X Comic Shop 3rd Floor Ayala Mall Glorietta 4 Ayala Center Makati City Sept 27 (Saturday) We will be giving away THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of FREE COMICS (similar to Free Comic Book Day) The First 50 people in attendance (starting at noon) will receive a special print created for this event. Featuring Special Guest Artists: Leinil Yu (Secret Invasion, Wolverine, X-Men) Gerry Alanguilan (Superman, X-Men, X-Force, Elmer) Gilbert Monsanto (Bayan Knights, Hellcop, Tropa) Edgar Tadeo (Wolverine, X-men) Mico Suayan (Moon Knight, What if) Stephen Segovia (Wolverine, Countdown to Mystery) Harvey Tolibao (Ultimate X-Men) Budjette Tan (Trese) Kajo Baldisimo(Trese) And more artists to be confirmed! Artists will be signing from 1pm-5pm. Autographs will be free of charge. Full sketches/drawings of the character of your choice will cost P500 each done on a standard comic sized cardboard (10.5 x 7) (with the exception of Leinil who wil...

"They had been in love once—equally and passionately. Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it." --Jonathan Carroll, THE GHOST IN LOVE Download the first chapter of the book at: http://www.jonathancarroll.com/books/theghostinlove.html I just wish the bookstores would start ordering more of his books!

The Art of Collecting Stories I found these videos of Jonathan Harris' talk a couple of months ago. That was around the time were working on the Globe "Connected 24ever" project. When Harris talked about his experiment / exploration to find new stories, it made me think about the stories we were trying to tell with the Globe campaign. There were certain nights when it felt like I had run out of stories to tell. Thankfully, with everyone pitching in, we pooled together a good number of interesting tales. Watching Harris' journey makes me remember that I need to spend more time outside of the office and collect more stories. (Well, we try our best to get out of the office earlier than usual). My friend Rog had a favorite line from the movie "The Lady and the Tramp". There was a scene where the two dogs were chasing after a car. Lady asked, "What are we doing?" Tramp smiled back and said, "Making memories." Yup, need to go out there and make...