A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Sorry for the infrequent post over the past week. Been working on something over here. Today being the feast day of the Black Nazarene, I thought it would be just proper to launch the Kristong Itim blog. It's a project blog for something I've been working on and off over a couple of years. It's about the weird and wonderful stuff which happens in the Philippines. Not ...

No major spoilers! And cooked with no MSG! I've been meaning to put in a word or two regarding the Identity Crisis mini-series of DC comics which ended in December but I've put it off. Luckily a friend (thanks Budj!) sent over a copy of the Mango Comics' (same people who relaunched Darna in 2003) one-shot of Mars Ravelo's Lastikman. Why lucky? Aside from getting ...

She may look good but I still don't buy Jessica Alba as Invisible Woman. And Jennifer Garner as Elektra? Well, Elektra was Greek in the comic books. (Oh and is she preggers with Ben's baby? Ang tsismis!) Then again I'm not with Hollywood. More geeky news at Superhero Hype!

For Vertigo's 10 year anniversary, DC comics asked Sandman creator Neil Gaiman to write stories revisiting the Endless. The project became Endless Nights. Aside from commemorating a groundbreaking series, Vertigo puts together the best artists in the world working with Gaiman: Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, Dave McKean, Miguelanxo Prado, Frank Quitely, P. Craig Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz, Barron Storey. It's easy to rave about this book. The art alone is ...

2 Gaimans, 2 Moores, an Ennis and a Niles Gaiman's take on the Marvel universe via 1602 # 2 continues to be interesting. I still don't see how he'll pull it off but I can't wait for the pay-off in the end. Also picked up Gaiman's Gods & Tulips, his collection of speeches and essays about writing comics and other in other media. Good stuff. I picked up a ...

    Picked up Blankets by Craig Thompson and JLA-Avengers#1 for some weekend reading. These are two very different graphic novels (okay...comic books) which shows how the medium can be very potent in telling different kinds of stories. Blankets by Thompson just blew me away. The phrase 'achingly beautiful' has been overused to hype up work which doesn't even come close to the meaning of those words. Blankets is sentimental ...