Another obervation to jazz -up the merchandise. It obviously needs a Graphic Designer/Typographer,Book designer to make the cover more contemporary looking. There is no problem with the illustrations, these are all veterans.But the over-all graphic design look needs improvement. BTW, how much per copy? please advice.Thanks.

Ha-ha. Yesiree.
I guess we all have to move with the times.

Something reminds me of Daniel Radcliff being kissed on the lips by a gay man onstage and the actor just went for the ride. He-he. Whether Daniel brushed his teeth several times afterwards, only Bathala knows. I guess this sort of thingy is what we may call the sign of the times: we are all equal.

I’m with you as well with the PIKOT. But the next thing I really want to see is: a husband being punished for beating up his wife. This will be the ultimate thing that our society must face and realize. Enough is enough. The komiks will be the best tool to enlighten are male friends.

Nice analysis on the first issue of PARS. My observation as coming from a younger generation is that I couldn’t identify with some of the values presented in the stories. For instance in the story “Harana”, relations with the same sex are still deemed laughable, and that forced sexual relations (pikot) to facilitate marriage is something people still find amusing and “not so bad at all”.

I got hold of some copies of these books and the other thing I will suggest is to make the language of the book sounding more north American since they are exporting these books here. The HU-HU-HU for crying would confuse a north American reader. We SOB, we don’t HU-HU in English comics. The expression and other common phrases and slang should also be utilized for those contemporary stories. And for the period stories, well, make sure they don’t sound stilted by not using the most common expression by the English speakers. So far, the English spoken in the dialogues of these books are quite grammatically correct, it sounds like an example sentence in an English Grammar book. This sort of style is only fine for expounding the story through the captions. But, for dialogues, however, that’s another story. In their future issues, I’m also hoping they make sure not to repeat through the captions what the visuals are already revealing to the readers. This is what was detrimental to the old comics industry, let’s make sure we don’t do the same blunder again.

I am trying to give this feedback to the talents involved in this publication because I know they can do more to improve this book. Producing an exceptional comic book will surely make or break this venture. We know the caliber of the illustrators already. A little tweaking here and there will surely make this book exceptional. And the coloring is not painful to the eye, either. It’s almost reminiscent of the old flat colors of the comics of olden days, thus, making this publication quite nostalgic to look at (i.e., the modern version of Treasure Chest Comics).

I will write an article about this in the English Filipino newspaper I am editing here to make sure the Filipino community is informed. And lots of luck to all of you.

Meanwhile, let’s keep the whip snapping.
:)