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Once upon a time...

Many years ago (maybe six or so years ago), I wanted to do a music video for The Jerks' song "Rage". The video would star the futuristic versions of Darna, Panday, and Zuma. These analog versions would battle mecha-powered Metrocom cops in an alternate reality where Martial Law was never lift. I imagined it would animated like how AKIRA was animated.

Since I didn't have the funds or the resourcers to do that, I just thought I'd turn it to a comic book. So, I sent the script to one of the guys and got a couple of sketches in return. Arvie, the artist, loved the idea so much, he started to map out the whole history of the characters in the "music video".

Anyway, our day-jobs got the better of us, and we never even got to do Page 1 of the project.

I just thought of "giving birth" to it now, especially since we wanted to make that story of yet-another-unproduced-anthology called NOV30: A TIME FOR HEROES.

Given the chance, I'd still like the story to be turned to a video, maybe by Ben Hibon, who did this really great video/ animated short called CODE HUNTERS. (Watch it at the Heaven-sent-time-sink that is YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-sSzI3QHtI)

Anyway, for today, you'll get to see the sketches. :)




“RAGE”
The Jerks

Children beggin’ at the streets at night
Knock’n on cars til the morning light
People standin’ in line for a kilo of rice
Welcome to the dark ages
The Era of Lies

Dreams of progress
Of visions gone mad
Mendiola still drenched with innocent blood
When election men rumble
through Smokey Mountain homes

Darkness and peace
Justice dressed in gloom





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But I go not gently in to the night
Rage against the dying of the light
Sing a song about the terrible sight
Rage until the lighting strike

Go not gently (3x)
And rage with me!

And the names and faces of the tyrants change
But poverty, pain, and murder remain
The voices of truth are locked up in chains
Murder remains
Freedom in flames






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But I go not gently in to the night
Rage against the dying of the light
Sing a song about the terrible sight
Rage until the heavens cry
Rage until the people strikes!

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