Anime attack: 2021!
Netflix will be streaming some 40 anime
this year, more than double last year’s output,
and debuting one almost every week
Comics
A super book about the spectrum
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 many looks of Wonder Woman
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 …
The wonder of Gal Gadot
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 …
‘TRESE’ Vol. 1 out in the US Nov. 4; Vol. 2 announced for April 2021
Halloween has come early for fans of “TRESE” The scary, sleek indie Filipino comic that could just broke through again. After being picked up by American publisher Ablaze Publishing, Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo’s “TRESE” will continue to roam bookstore shelves in North America, a feat no other Filipino comic book team or property has …
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The UGH life according to Hulyen
The new face of Philippine ‘komiks’ is unusual and unapologetically herself
SG-based Epigram releases Pinoy comic book ‘Mr Tino’
The premise alone is brilliant. In the vast majority of superhero stories, the metahumans gain their abilities either as a birthright or as the result of an accident as an adult. But what happens when an ordinary man suddenly develops superhuman strength—when he becomes a senior citizen? This was the idea behind “Sixty Six,” the …
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PH is the setting of next ‘Gundam’ anime; but release delayed indefinitely
The Philippines is the location of the action in the next “Mobile Suit Gundam” animated film, a convergence that will be very welcome to the republic of “Gundam” fans in the country. “Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway” was supposed to be released in Japan on July 23 by Bandai and animation studio Sunrise and is the …
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The impact of ‘Transformers: War for Cybertron–Siege’ Impactor
How long does it take for a comic book character to get a toy? How about 33 years? In 1986, Hasbro’s Transformers toys were truly sunstorm-hot, and aside from the “Transformers” series Marvel Comics was publishing in the US, Marvel UK was publishing its own line of “Transformers” comic books with its own continuity. It …
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‘TRESE’ US edition gets special variant cover; more volumes to come
Budjette Tan and Ka-jo Baldisimo’s upcoming “TRESE” just keep on winning. Long a fan-favorite and commerically-successfully comic book series in the Philippines through Visprint, Inc., “TRESE” gets its North American debut as a trade paperback in September from Ablaze Publishing, the brain child of former Dynamite Publishing’s Rich Young. Our chronicle of paranormal investigator Alexandra …
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