All New Venom | The Clue Identity

Venom is a popular character, and over the years, he has become this edgy anti-hero with the likes of Deadpool, looking more than just a guy in a red suit. But in the current “All-New” Venom, Marvel is trying to reinvigorate the character after so many years of being a host to other characters. But now, Eddie Brock has become the ‘New’ Carnage after the Venom War, which leaves the Venom symbiote to look for a suitable host. The first issue doesn’t reveal who the new host was, but the readers were given four characters to guess who it was, and that’s where the first issue begins with a twist that fans might leave guessing.

Arte Bettina | ANTI

For every Hero there’s a Villain that stands it’s way. But an “Anti-Hero” is different and not considered a “hero” though still has qualities the character stood for as a good story to tell when crafting a narrative. The same goes for putting together an art or gallery with elements of your personality and choices that others might not agree about it. “ANTI” is the latest solo exhibit featuring Kobusher. This local artist brings his perspective and narrative through his art style featuring his favorite “Anti-Heroes” in the way people would see them in a different light and also a unique perspective that redefines what makes these hard-edge characters stand out.

Ghost Rider #1 | All Hells Break Loose

10.31.2019 – Ghost Rider has been one of Marvel’s underrated titles, but in the 1990s it had a revival with Danny Ketch as its main star and Johnny Blaze in a supporting role that launched the franchise expanding to other titles with a special event and those where the glory days of the supernatural series that was challenging to emulate in this era where the Avengers and X-Men are the major favorites due to the live-action cinematic treatments. Ghost Rider had two movies with Nick Cage in the lead roles, and the character was retold in some shape or form in the comicbooks that casual fans were having difficulties to grasp on the who is this walking flaming skull on a bike or even a car. For the longtime fans, this new series could be the breath of fresh hellfire as well as new to the Ghost Rider mythos now that Marvel is reigniting the Spirits of Vengeance with a brand new series featuring not one but two Ghost Riders. Johnny Blaze was the star for every succeeding series for Ghost Rider, but this time around a 1990s revival that will also include Danny Ketch in the lead along with his brother’s new status quo after becoming ‘the King of Hell’, which also introduce a new creative team in Ed Brisson and Arron Kuder!

X-Men #1 | Summers Family Values

10.17.2019 – The “Dawn of X” is finally arrived in X-Men #1 with Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, and Sunny Gho. If you’ve followed Jonathan Hickman’s well-detailed and reviving prominence of the X-Men brand through the “House of X” and “Powers of X” (pronounced as Powers of Ten) in the past months run surely you’ll be anticipating this issue too. There’s so much to take in if it hasn’t sunk in what has been re-established that Krakoa is now an island nation and things are going bananas on this first issue as there will be more revelation for the next series coming out in the next few weeks. But with X-Men #1 this is surely more focused on the characters than just a big event. It gives you the perspective of one Scot Summers and how he lives his life with his family and friends. If you missed out on all things X in the two six-issue miniseries expect a compiled graphic novel to catch up. For now, you got to pick-up X-Men #1 to give you a closer look and spotlight Scott Summer and his complicated that has been having too much drama in the last fifty years as we say “clean house.”

Marvel + Miniso | 5 Essential Merchandise

08.30.2019 – The collaboration between Marvel and Miniso produced a lot of household merchandise that was previously revealed in the other stores that are now “Marvel-ized” with the aesthetics featuring the prominent characters that appeared in Marvel Studios’ MCU, which are based from their comicbook appearances. Believe it True Believers when you’re a big Marvel fan chances are you won’t know which ones to buy and not everything is actually ‘useful’ at home or if you plan to accessorize yourself it is a challenging preposition. Earlier today the Miniso branch in SM Megamall became the House of Ideas that welcomed customers to the store.

Marvel 80 Years at SM | The Block Highlights

08.28.2019 – Marvel is celebrating its 80th year with a variety of celebration across all media platforms from animation, movies, videogames, and merchandising all over the world. The Philippines however is kicking it big an event that had a press launched yesterday in collaboration with SM Malls. The event features everything Marvel has to offer with the appearance of Danny Koo, Marvel Game’s Senior Producer for Asia. He graced the event’s media day that capped off the an autograph signing and reveals showcased displays from local toy groups as well as soon-to-be revealed action figures from Hot Toys.

Marvel + Miniso at SM Mall of Asia

08.27.2019 – The Marvel freight train keeps on chugging along with the plethora of reveals for the upcoming Disney+ streaming service over the past weekend there’s more where all that is coming from. With the Comic Book content heating up with their flagship X-titles literally sold and the MCU films are building up. The merchandise machine hasn’t stop producing all things Marvel that you can wear and sleep in. A few years ago there was a Marvel store that has anything that has something to do with the House of Ideas, which even though short lived it gave fans what they had and now it’s Miniso’s turn to bring some Marvel to the mainstream.

Agents of Atlas #1 | Riding the Wave of Artists

08.12.2019 – The weekend had full schedule of Filipino comics-related events with Komikon Indieket now at everyone’s rear view. This continues with the signing event at Comic Odyssey that has been announced a month early. This is after the reveal for the “Agents of Atlas” regular series spinning off from War of the Realms Saga. The first issue features four variant covers including the regular release that featured artists Leinil Yu doing Wave, Carlo Pagulayan with Jason Paz inspiring the classic Giant X-Men #1, and special painted cover by Mico Suayan. The event had long lines at Comic Odyssey handed down numbered stubs.

War of the Realms | New Agents of Atlas #1

05.11.2019 – The War of the Realms saga rages on as Marvel goes global in introducing already established characters in the main universe. With The New Agents of Atlas #1, the brand takes it further in cementing their interest that Marvel is invested in Asia with most of the characters from China, Korea, and the Philippines. This is not the first time a secret society founded by the Atlas Foundation known as “Agents of Atlas” was introduced, but a new roster representing a brand new team led by one of its founding members named Jimmy Woo formerly known as Yellow Klaw is now the new leader of the group that featured Amadeus Cho (Brawn), Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), Cindy Moon (Silk), and Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung-Fu. There’s a promise that Marvel plans to expand internationally and introduces new characters and the creative team between Greg Pak and Gang Hyuk Lim delivered what Asian fans hoped for with the appearance of Aero and Sword Master are two original Chinese characters appearing online at NetEase Comics. Then you got Korean characters like the first K-Pop crime fighter, Luna Snow, and the duo of Crescent and Lo. But local fans in the Philippines are pumped up for The Newest Filipino Superhero, Wave from the concept design of Leinil Yu.

Movie Review | Thor Ragnarok

11.01.2017 – Marvel’s Thor Ragnarok is the seventeenth installment in their ever-expanding billion dollars breaking the cinematic universe. It’s by far heading to break box office record with great reviews rolling over as it’s headed for the US release date. By now everyone’s talking about this film like its brand new and going through the shortest Marvel film ever released Taika Waititi hits a big goal on this one.

Supanova 2017 | Stan Lee Goes Down Under

09.13.2017 – Stan Lee is an icon and Marvel’s patriarch when it comes to the comic book characters he helped create. The man doesn’t need no introduction. But the ‘Generalisimo’ rarely travels outside North America and is in his mid-90s it appears he's not taking this slow. This might a surprise to hear the news his going overseas heading down under. Yes, even the man who coined the word ‘Excelsior’ still wants to see Kangaroos and Koalas.

Ban Kee Trade Show 2016 | Metals Die Cast

09.05.2016 – There have been a lot of cbaby products, collectibles, and merchandise to go around during the Ban Kee Trading Trade Show that occupied a huge ballroom inside Edsa Shangri-La Hotel. It’s their version of the New York Toy Fair in a small scale for the fall release for some upcoming soon-to-be available items. These are mostly the product line Ban Kee Trading exclusively distribute in the Philippines and one of these range of products are from JADA Toys, which is their Metals Die Cast line of collectible figures revealed in full regalia.

Conversations With | Billy Tan [Exclusive]

During the Asia Pop Comic Con in Manila, I got to meet and interview Billy Tan. A Malaysian-American, he is one of the few Asian artists that made it big in the comic book industry. His notable work on the flagship title for Green Lantern starting with issue #21 with writer Robert Venditti who took over Geoff Johns as the writer would garner further attention in his career.

APCC Manila 2016 | Metals Die Cast

08.27.2016 – If you happen to miss the previous toy-related event then you must not miss Asia Pop Comicon Manila. JADA Toys’ Metals Die Cast will be at this event for the weekend featuring soon-to-be-released on retail figures. Previously Metals Die Cast made its debut at the recently concluded Toy Kingdom’s Toy Expo 2016 revealing what’s coming to their superhero line of figures from DC and Marvel. Some of the images weren’t revealed featuring all these new characters, but this time here are some of them that you might find them interesting.

Metals Die Cast | Civil War Iron Man (6" Inch Edition)

08.26.2016 – JADA Toys has been known for a company that produce high end Die Cast and Remote Control cars. It’s been their identity that separates them from other brands that produce similar products for the last seventeen years. This year they entered into a new market where they introduced their Metals Die Cast series beginning with “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and followed it up with Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. Here’s a closer look at Iron Man one of the main characters from their 6” inch series that also includes Captain America.

Toy Expo 2016 | Metals Die Cast

08.22.2016 – This year’s Toy Expo focus on the latest brand that’s either about to be available at Toy Kingdom or its already out you just don’t have any idea since you missed passing by this event. But kidding aside this was weekend event for everyone. One of the exhibitors for this year is JADA Toys best known for high quality die cast and remote control cars. But this is their first to enter the figure line featuring license properties from DC, Marvel, Ghostbusters, TMNT, and a lot more as they also introduced new figures for young adult collectors.

APCC 2016 | ‘Hall M’ First-Ever Marvel Showcase in Asia

08.21.2016 – You’ve probably not heard of C.B. Cebulski, but if you’ve been reading comicbooks its possible you know him working behind the scenes in discovering talents for Marvel’s publishing. If you’re an aspiring artist who wants to get into the industry this must be place at this year’s Asia Pop Comicon Manila. For the first time in Asia, C.B. Cebulski is bringing special footage for Marvel to reveal at “Hall M” that would certainly inspire the artists in you…

Marvel Tsum Tsum #1 | Here They Come!

08.06.2016 – “Tsum Tsum” is a stuff toy collectible first introduced in 2013, which features Disney characters that also includes Disney-owned Marvel and Star Wars franchises. They where first released in Japan as a tie up to the Tsum Tsum arcade and mobile games developed by Konami and Line Corporation. It’s a popular collectible item which Disney has sold 1.8 million “Tsum Tsum” toys. Marvel adapted and produced a comicbook series based on the “Tsum Tsum” toy brand. The name is derived from the Japanese verb tsumu meaning "to stack", because the toys are designed to stack on top of each other, forming a pyramid shape. Besides stuff toys they have expanded into collectible figurines and die cast cars that you can stack them. In the comicbook written by Jacob Chabot with art by David Baldeon, the “Tsum Tsum” are alien creatures who where smuggled by an alien in the sector where the Guardians of the Galaxy patrols. The freighter pilot went through a blockade when the Guardians encountered another alien race looking for trouble.

Funko POP! Marvel | Howard the Duck

08.04.2016 – Funko’s POP! line of vinyl figurines continue to expand with its license properties from animation, movies, videogames, and even those created for visual artist with their original creations that capture everyone’s attention. It is a lucrative and popular brand for Funko that also have the rights to produce characters for Marvel, but the difference from the standard vinyl figurine they have their version do the ‘bobble’ and one of them is the famous Howard the Duck.

Marvel & Netflix Reveal Series Sizzle Reels!

08.02.2016 – Marvel and Netflix was the first to reveal something to look forward to with their partnership after the success of Daredevil and Jessica Jones. They are ready to bring in Luke Cage next month and a teaser for Iron Fist too. If you’re knee deep into watching episodes of Marvel shows the past months here’s more with the upcoming shows as wells as a teaser to the culmination of all of the series that will tie up to the Defenders in 2017…