Rambol #2 Review
Jun 30Gilbert Monsanto’s covers doesn’t just grab your attention – it holds your attention. In fact, it blows you away! Rambol # 2 really did that for me. Besides, what kind of Pinoy komiks fan could resist a cover with Biotrog going head-to-head against X-Trooper anyway? We didn’t get any Infinity-Sonic, hero-versus-hero crossovers even during Pinoy komiks heyday, did we? Biotrog against...
Internet Blackout
Jun 23Just stumbled upon a cool preview page of a graphic novel entitled Hackerteen: Volume 1: Internet Blackout and what do you know? They at TurfSite Manila are actually giving away a free copy for bloggers within the Philippines who will mention about their book raffle. So here goes my entry! Heheh.. I’m crossing my fingers for this as it looks like an interesting title to read. Join the raffle...
Rambol #1 Review
Jun 16First and foremost, Sacred Mountain’s Rambol komiks was sized smaller than the typical comic book. This was also my first time to encounter a flipbook format meaning this one has two covers and two stories – namely Metropolitan and Alagad Inc. Since this this the first issue, both stories simply introduces (or, in Metropolitan’s case, reintroduces) the main characters. Gilbert...
Nostalgia
Jun 11My first encounter with Pinoy komiks was way back 1986. I was just 5 years old at the time. I remember that my first one was Funny komiks. My mom bought it for me when i was sick. I got hooked since then that I always asked my Mama to buy me new issues every week (since comics back then were circulated weekly). I exclusively read Funny komiks until I discovered other titles such as Bata Batuta...
Forge Comics
May 31I recently dropped by the local BookSale store to browse books but found Forge comics # 11 instead. It was an old issue released way back 2003 by Cross Gen comics and it was a trade paper back edition. It contained 7 stories and it had 192 full color pages. The cover price indicated that it was originally priced US $7.95 (around Php 318) but because it was on sale, they sold it for only Php 40.00...
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