Saturday, March 17, 2018


¡QUÉ HORROR2018
Candidate #5

ANNIHILATION
(February 2018)


"Isn't self-destruction coded into us? Programmed into each cell?”


Alex Garland’s Annihilation (based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer) is heady, horror-tinged science fiction, the kind we need far more than the Nth iteration of some tired SF franchise.
And while some may wonder at its inclusion here, I think it’s quite clear to those who frequent the Iguana that my definition of “horror” has always been very broad, allowing for diverse moods and tastes, from quiet elegance to raucous bombast.

Think of Annihilation as the horror of science, of nature gone horribly awry.
And not in the ‘70’s “animals go wild, nature vs man” schlock cinema sense (though there are flitting shades of that sensibility here), but rather in the sense of the horror of chaos, of the terrible, maddening possibility of having everything we take for granted twisted into unnatural and terrifying shapes.

Garland captures a grotesque beauty here, the awful majesty of seeing the mundane transfigured into the bizarre and the alien, his vision helped along tremendously by the soundscape laid down by Ben Salisbury and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow (the duo also scored Garland’s Ex Machina and Black Mirror’s “Men Against Fire”).

Plus, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Natalie Portman.
Need I say more?

(Annihilation OS courtesy of impawards.com.)

Friday, March 9, 2018


2018 SUMMER KOMIKON 'VERSE RELEASE

Summer Kon is on April 14, a little over a month to go, and yes, new release! 
Singular!
We're all still hoping there'll be some more new issues to launch this April, but for now, let's work with what we've got...


DAKILA: Lumilim
Issue 2 (of 3)
By David Hontiveros and Elmer Cantada

Your name is Brandon Ramirez and you’ve been a geek your whole life: comics, movies, RPGs, cosplay.

And now you’re officially the world’s first superhero, as evidenced by the cape, the mask, the totally ripped physique, and those crazy-awesome powers.

Higher agencies seem to have conspired to steer you right into that skintight outfit.

We have only one question:
How’s that working out for you?

Having interrupted the geek festivities at ManilaCon, Mangilala shifts his sinister plans for Dakila (and his friends) into the next gear.

Dakila.
18 years old.
Cosmic champion.
All of a sudden, acne and getting a driver’s license are so not a big deal anymore.

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And there you go.
Set the date: April 14, at the Bayanihan Center on Pioneer.
#komikonph

Hope to see all you mighty fine folk at Summer Kon!

you can’t drink just six,

Dave