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EQUILIBRIUM Reviewed by Karen Kunawicz While REIGN OF FIRE had a lot of hype and dragons surrounding its release in theaters here, I was disappointed with the storytelling and the characters. To the point where I wanted the dragons to win and just wipe out the human race. GO DRAGONS GO! Not even Christian Bale's dark and grim stares or Matthew McConaughey's over the top redneck hardcore army guy could save the script, story and directing. EQUILIBRIUM was released on Manila screens without much hype and fanfare but when it comes to Sci-fi B Movies, this one totally SATISFIES! Borrow some elements from the Matrix, Gattaca, 1984 and throw in a little bit of Minority Report and you have the future world of Libria where war is eliminated by eliminating hate and anger, by eliminating human emotion. Dressing up in colors, listening to music, keeping works of art, falling in love, smiling, crying are included in the forms prohibited behavior. Enforcing the rules are...

Carl went to the office to deliver copies of ZSAZSA #2 and it suddenly became a mini-fans day. My CD even allowed us to use the conference room as a "autograph area." Nanni started to read her copy as soon as she got it and was almost done by the time Carl had to go. They were all thrilled to see one of Carl's sketches --a new character in Zsazsa's next adventure. Couple of hours later, we met up with Grace and her friends at Segafredo and they already got to read Zsazsa #2. They said they definitely want to see what happens next. Putting more pressure on Carl to start work on Zsazsa's Manila adventure. Let's see what happens to Zsazsa. I've got a feeling something great will happen before the end of the year. Go Carl, go!

Many thanks to Bernie Sim for once again recommending ZSAZSA to the unsuspecting masses. Read her reviews in my other blog KOMIX 101 .

Need my Gaiman-fix. Waiting for the wolves .

It was late January and it was 1994. We were all at Bow's house, sprawled on the basketball court. Stuffed with grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and several liters of Coke. Tired from all the eating. My car was parked at the edge of the court. The trunk and all the doors were open and we were playing his tape... Acoustic Favorites, I think was the title. The last song on the tape was by Marc Cohn. And seemed to be the perfect soundtrack for the state of our lives back then. Suddenly remembered that song because of a story I'm working on. I was such a romantic. Now I'm just busy. PERFECT LOVE Marc Cohn Down by the boathouse at Shaker Lake When there wasn't nothing but love to make, They were two young lovers wishing on the stars above. Well, they carved their initials in an old birch tree With a heart and an arrow and a 'sixty-three. You had to be blind not to see... It was a perfect love. It was a perfect love. Ooh, yeah, yeah. Well, they w...

FROM THE BLOG OF MIKE "VINNIE" SIMBULAN , about the life and times of a Comic Quest shopkeeper, writer, Temporal researcher and professional bed. "Every night, I have to make my way home by 12 because my parents (who are Aliens from beyond the stars) transform into their true forms at this hour, and I must assume my appointed task of transforming myself into their bed. Ergo- My Life As A Bed."

JUST VISITING For her birthday, Rachel decided to go to Middle-Earth... well, New Zealand actually. She didn't find the Ring of Power, so she's back to her old job as Associate Creative Director instead of being Supreme Ruler of the World. Click here to see her precious pics.

One of our client is leaving and the agency decided to give him a despedida in LA COCINA DE TITA MONING . At first I didn’t want to go because of the workload and I thought La Cocina was the same Cocina in the food court of the mall. Well, I went anyway, since my boss said, “Well, you better be there!” And I’m glad I did go. La Cocina is located inside the compound of Malacanang Palace and it turned out to be a house built in the 1930s. Our hostess is the granddaughter of Alejandro Roces Legarda. Alejandro’s wife was Dona Ramona Legarda or more affectionately called Tita Moning. All the guests first gathered in this veranda-like area located outside the house, where we were severed drinks and toasted bread with queso de bola spread. Before we could proceed to dinner, we were given a quick tour and history lesson about the house. Dinner was held on the second floor. We had onion soup for starters, baked lapu-lapu served with grilled eggplant, followed by Solomi...

GLENN'S BLOG My office mate finally gets into blogging. Here's his first post. "So here's another blog to clog up the infinite vastness of the Web. I'm an advertising copywriter and you'd think I'd balk at adding another writing chore to the list of things I have to do: brush teeth, take bath, wish for a boyfriend, do blog, go to work, create wonderful copy for products people don't really need...Did I already say, wish for a boyfriend? So now, instead of just privately wishing for a mate, I'm going to be headlining that and other Titanic-like neuroses all over the Internet. As if you all need to read one more gay man's screw-ups...Yay me!"

Jedi Jobert is finally blogging, baby! Let's see if your powers works over the net, young Jedi! Nyahahaha!

PALANCA PANIC ATTACK Mark confirmed that the deadline for the Palanca is on the 30th and I don't have a single thing to enter. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHHH!!! I usually get to read a press release about it and that would remind me about the contest, but I didn't see any this year. Then again, I should've just marked my calendar since the contest always happens this time of the year. AAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

MY EVER DEVOLVING HEADLINES While most of the working world have already gone home or have begun their trek to the province, I am still here at the office because we have to release print ads and merchandising materials that have to up by Easter Sunday. (They have to be released today because there will be no work from tomorrow til next week.) After checking several dozen X-MEN banners and streamers, we get a call from client, who got a call from some Marvel guy or 20th Century Fox guy abroad who said, that we can't use the phrase: JOIN THE BATTLE! Due to America's current preoccupation with Iraq, they don't want their characters to be associated with anything related to war, hence we can't say "battle." Hmmm... but isn't X2 all about the impending start of a "genetic war" between humans and mutants? We have another ad coming out on Sunday which will feature other Marvel superheroes. The original headline read: Hero hype! Mutant m...

See Tina Rant See Tina Rave "I either rant or rave about the tv shows, films, books, restaurants, etc. that I experience. No fancy rating system for me. It's either I think something was a worthwhile experience and I recommend others try it, or I don't." --Tina

Check out Carl's blog's new look . Very nice. Very homey. Where's the comfy where guests can sit and read?

Thanks to Camile and whatever for answering my question.

Vitamin Q says , "In Manila, there is a subdivision (housing project) where all the streets are named after beauty queens." Does anyone which subdivision he's talking about and what are the names of the streets?

SUPER FRIENDS Last weekend, we launched the JUSTICE LEAGUE downloads in myGlobe. Today, we just got initial numbers of the downloads. As expected, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were the top three most downloaded characters. Martian Manhunter was at the bottom of the list. (Poor Martian.) When we put the ad up in the office, people would pass-by and say, "Who's the green guy?", "Is that Green Lantern? Why is he black?" Ugh! I think I gave up explaining after I got asked that for the 33rd time. Text JL to 2375 for a quick list of Justice League icons you can get. he he he... shameless plug You can also take a look at the JUSTICE LEAGUE ICONS and TEXT CARDS here.

A STAR IS RE-BORN Just read that James Robinson and Tony Harris are working on a new Starman story. No release date yet, but looking forward to read the adventures of Jack Knight again. Got my Tony Harris-fix recently with JSA: THE UNHOLY THREE , a story that had an interesting cliffhanger at the end of the first issue and a second issue that ended almost like GOLDEN AGE... with one big fight!

More local comics / zines... and from the looks of it, they plan to publish something in full-color. I met some of them at the C3CON. Glad to know they're pushing through with new projects. The comic book scene is alive and kick'n. (The trick is to keep it going) Below is their intro, found in their site. BLUE SHUFFLE WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD!!! Arcmuch Comics presents the most diversified collection of stories ever produced in Philippine Comics/Manga! With six titles for every book, the Shuffle aims to wreak fun for fans everywhere of all ages, recognizing the diverse comic tastes of Pinoy and World culture. Whether English or Tagalog; set locally or internationally; with patriotic or colonial Western/Oriental flavor; be it big robots, elves, grafitti, animated cartoon, shoujo or shonen tastes. You name it, we're bound to have something you'll love. Wonderboy is for the funny-comic reader who likes parodies of traditional superheroic anti...

ATOMIC UNDERGROUND is the title of an independent comic book produced by M3 studios. The book is composed of 3 individual stories: "Mario and the SPY Incorporated" by Marvin del Mundo, "Untamed Reality" by Mark Oliver Santillan, and "The Penciler" by Michael Seludo. GO TO THE UNDERGROUND. CLICK HERE >>> http://www.geocities.com/m3_studios/news.html FYI: ATOMIC UNDERGROUND won first place in the C3CON indie comic book making contest.