Sheesh. Never knew reading from Vol. 1 of HxH could be so time consuming... when I'm not bumming around, i mean. But the art I complained about is actually bearable now, for some reason.
what part of our myth/legend/folklore would be suited for a comic? i'm planning on doing web comic. any ideas? or does it have no hope?, cause even our hero rizal is too boring for a comic(lacks violence).
Or mabe a tribesman war would be good?(manobo,waray,etc.)
hello there, friend. When you say web comic, like a koma? or funnies? or like graphic novels?
actually, i'd been to komikons in the past (how sad I couldn't go this year

) and i observed that the whole agimat, tribes tribes thingies, have been done before, and are still being done today, which blows my mind seeing the same shit over and over again, like there's no other filipino aspect to tap but the old bahay kubo days. -_-
which is why I like Arnold Arre's work "After Eden" a lot. Although that could be argued to be set anywhere, not necessarily the Philippines. He's had "Mythology Class" which was pretty much Agimat-y also...
Or why Zaza Zaturna was probably such a hit too was because it was mocking Philippine pop culture.
You could go for slice of life. Closest to that would be Pugad Baboy (which I lurve) and Beerkada (more for the college market), but they're all gags.
Well. So far I haven't encountered any serious (or a little light but with drama, or romantic comedy) slice of life themes by Filipinos. I think we need more of that.
Take a look at mythology. Japan has a complicated creation mythology involving Izanagi, Izanami, Amaterasu, Susano'o, etc. while ours is the piddly story of Malakas and Maganda (a bamboo tree snapped and they were there, yay). Other legends are Mariang Makiling, Bernardo Carpio, Binibining Magayon, etc. also don't have something worthy of a story. Aswang are better off in third rate horror movies rather than in serious stuff. And if ever there are good stuff that can be taken from there, they'd been done before.
I digress. Those stories I believe to be quite rich. It's just the writer's way of reinterpreting it to make them flourish.
You can observe that with manga. Look at Takehiko Inoue's retelling of Musashi's life. That's not super-hero but a real life character, which he amplified with poetry and his amazing art. with a liberal take on things.
You could take a random fictional character and set it in real history like Rurouni Kenshin. How about making a filipino character set in some important transition period in our history?
We can't really blame it on poor history or literature. That's highly debatable. You have to rely on the writer's/artist's capability to bring the story to new heights.
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