The pandemic wasn’t able to stop Paolo Herras, the mastermind behind independent Filipino komiks convention and publisher Komiket, from pushing through with the first Philippine International Comics Festival or PICOF 2020 last year. Herras’ superpower is getting it done, no matter the situation and on the fly, PICOF 2020 became a virtual event, where “we …
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How much do you want to be a Marvel superhero? Which one? Better still, which version of that hero would you want to be? You can get to do all that with Marvel Entertainment and Netmarble Corp.’s new free-to-play mobile game Marvel Future Revolution, a multiversal battlefield unlike anything mobile gamers have seen before. “Being …
After having its premiere moved around twice due to the pandemic and its release from the big screen to Netflix, “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway” has finally debuted, and it was worth the wait, especially for Filipino Gundam fans. You see, the Philippines is the location of the animated film, a welcome convergence for the many …
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It is only proper that Ferdinand-Benedict “Budjette” Tan lived in a haunted house when he was a baby. “I guess at the end of the day, living in a haunted house has helped me write these stories and it was, you know, ticked off this whole notion or feeling that we are living in a …
The Netflix Original Anime series “TRESE,” based on Budjette Tan and KaJO Baldisimo’s comic book, is almost here–the series drops midnight (12 a.m.) on June 11 Manila time–and we can can all count down to the historic premiere together. In case you have been living under an enchanted rock, catch the official trailer here: Can’t …
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The protagonist of the acclaimed ‘TRESE’ comic book series—getting its Netflix anime June 11—is really going places
Netflix will be streaming some 40 anime
this year, more than double last year’s output,
and debuting one almost every week
Sometimes, the best comic books aren’t about superheroes. Sometimes, they’re about ordinary people in extraordinary situations told in an extraordinary way. And that is exactly what you get with “Doobiedoo Asks,” the semiautobiographical comic book from writer Bambi Eloriaga-Amago and artist Roland Amago. This gorgeous, entertaining, informative, funny and heartbreaking comic book revolves around the …
The single most iconic of all female superheroes not just for DC Comics but for all comics, Wonder Woman was the creation of William Moulton Marston, a controversial American psychologist, and the artist H.G. Peter. Her first appearance was as the Justice Society of America’s Secretary in “All-Star Comics” #8 in 1941, but the next …
There is nobody else like her. Gal Gadot (Ga’ dot) first turned heads when she joined the crew of the “The Fast and the Furious” in 2009 and would go on to appear in four of the franchise’s films. But it was when the 35-year-old former Ms. Israel donned the armor of the Amazon superhero …
