Mack Bolan books: Escapism or Something More?

One of my pastimes during my high school years was reading the Mack Bolan adventure book series and its spin-off titles Able Team and Phoenix Force. I have to admit that it's still a guilty pleasure to this day. So when I spotted the above book at a Book Sale outlet recently (and for Php15!), I couldn't help but buy it.

Why do I like reading these books? It's gritty, graphically violent just this side of gratuitous, and unapologetic about its theme of primal (even politically incorrect) justice. Should I, as a Christian, be even reading stuff like this?

My Book Fair Loot

Ever since I've worked with OMF Literature, where I am now, the Manila International Book Fair has been part work and part pleasure. But this year's book fair has felt thin somehow. Maybe it's the lack of selections,

Video Review: Brothers Barbarian

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The Gamers: Dorness Rising not only revived my love for gaming, but opened to me the enjoyment of independent films in this particular genre. Learning that Dead Gentlemen Productions followed up Dorkness Rising with the web series JourneyQuest, I subscribed to their YouTube channel and went on to enjoy it.

But I wanted more.

The Gamers: Hands of Fate - - September 2013

I haven't been writing on this blog for some time now because time and duty didn't allow. But today is a day of epic proportions.

Toys: Lego "Ang Panday"

For the last couple of months, I've been keeping a very tight leash on my spending. Which means, I haven't bought toys. But the Christmas season of 2011 gave me some cheer, as some of the family gave me some cash as Christmas gifts. This money I can budget for fun stuff without guilt. And that's what I did.

I've rekindled my love for a toyline from my childhood: Lego. Since I am not getting any younger, and getting married and building my own family are not too far off, I figured I'd collect toys with which I would want to play with my future kids. I got me a Lego Castle Blacksmith Attack (6918) and played around with it. So here's my version of "Ang Panday!"

Eat that, Bong Revilla! Hehehe.

COMICS: "CADRE: First-Born Sons" is out (SPOILERS)

Finally, my very own comic-book is out!

The whole CADRE comics storyline was first conceived in the very early part of the 21st century. My friends and I were crafting very engaging stories as they played the roles of their respective characters in a world that I created. It is a world that mirrors our own except that there is a big organization there called CADRE. My cousin and big brother Emil thought the stories would make good comics, and we got excited by the prospect. It took more than five years before that dream saw print, when the first of the CADRE prologue tales, CADRE Presents: Amerikanong Hilaw, came into full being in 2009. That was followed by CADRE: Shuriken Duet parts 1 and 2, and last year by CADRE Classified. 

I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to be able to write what could be the last of the prologue tales. In CADRE: First-Born Sons, we will see how the first three operatives of the shadow organization CADRE (to know what the acronym stands for, you'll have to buy the comic-book) got recruited.

Actually, "recruited" is too simplistic a term for the events that transpired. Set four years before the events of

Comics: Looking forward to Trese 4: Last Seen After Midnight (comics trailer)

I stumbled across this while browsing in Facebook. I dream we could do something like this for Polyhedron Comics.

I've seen better book trailers, but this is good enough to get me to look forward to looking through this and maybe buying it. Too bad I couldn't go to the launch this Saturday, as we at Polyhedron will be working on CADRE: Firstborn Sons on that day.