SELECTED 'VERSE TITLES NOW AVAILABLE ON MERVSTORE!
So, yes, The 'Verse is now one of mervstore's new partners...
At the moment, 12 'Verse issues are part of the selections for mervstore's H Club Box 5. (Check out the link for details.)
The 12 issues currently available through mervstore are (in alphabetical order):
DAKILA: Lumilim
Issues 1 & 2
David
Hontiveros / 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?
It’s been almost
3 months since 18-year old Brandon Ramirez first became Dakila.
And right now,
he just wants to cosplay.
But a day at
ManilaCon with his barkada turns
super weird (and super dangerous!) when creepy urban legend Mr. Alikabok--actually
one of Mangilala’s many guises (dude’s a cosplayer too! Who knew?)--shows up
with some, err… “friends,” to spoil everybody’s geekery.
Boooo! Hissssss!
Dakila. 18 years old. Cosmic champion.
All of a sudden, acne and getting a
driver’s license are so not a big deal anymore.
DAKILA: Makadaot
Issue 2
David Hontiveros / Carl Corilla
Dakila
has to face rains that are gradually sapping his strength to find a missing
child.
AND
his kitten!
But a bunch of saitans are about to make things a LOT more complicated...
DAKILA: Makadaot
Issue 3
David Hontiveros / Carl Corilla
Where we see exactly what Grundle... errrr, Kasuko’s “sweet itsusiak deal” was all about...
DAKILA: Metronom
Issues 2 & 3
David Hontiveros / Romnick Magbanua
There’s
been an angel murder, and an
attempted angel murder.
Who’s
on the case?
Gil
Grissom? Mac Taylor? Or (Heaven help us!) Horatio Caine?
Nuh-uh!
Dakila’s on the case!
DAKILA / KADASIG:
Balat
Issues 1 to 4
David Hontiveros / Romnick Magbanua
While just trying to do the right thing, Dakila runs afoul of the Yokusuru crime family, the same bunch of drilo Kadasig also happens to be looking into.
High flying, fist to jaw, tsinelas to face action follows!
DAKILA / MASKARADO: Silver Like Dust
David Hontiveros / Reno Maniquis
Two
kick-ass heroes.
One
awesome team-up.
Dakila
finds himself in another dimension, in another Philippines, where he meets “Manila’s
Masked Marvel,” Maskarado.
Together,
the heroes face an enemy driven by madness and greed.
An
enemy who hungers for all the power in the world.
Including theirs.
KADASIG Volume One: "The Skeleton at the Feast"
Issue 2
David Hontiveros / Rafael Gumboc
Kadasig has served the Lady Ibu for
centuries.
He was human, once. But today, he is a
living, breathing kutummu, his skin now merely the scabbard for the
seemingly infinite array of weapons he draws from inside himself, weapons he
shapes from his own flesh and bone, to best serve the Lady in the only way he
truly knows how.
He is the Lady’s kallaapu; her knight, her enforcer.
He is her beet tilli; her arsenal.
He is her kak daami; her bloodstained weapon.
And she is about to use him to finally
lay her enemies low…
Kadasig's memories of his violent past are disturbed in the wake of an aswang attack on the heir to the enkanto throne...
Okay.
All the 'Verse issues available on mervstore are complete narratives.
They're either stand-alone one-and-dones (like either of the Makadaot issues), or two-parters (Lumilim 1 & 2) or story arcs (Balat) that are finished, so no need to worry about waiting for the wrap-up.
I'm currently not privy to mervstore's timetable, but the 'Verse issues (as well as all the other titles from mervstore's other new partners) will eventually be made available under regular circumstances as well.
We'll update you when that happens.
There are also other plans afoot, like getting other 'Verse issues, like the "Maskarado (Red)" cover of Silver Like Dust
onto mervstore (currently, only the "Dakila (Blue)" cover is available), as well as some other titles, and other sneaky (initially exclusive to mervstore) schemes.
Updates when those come closer to reality.
For now, check out mervstore and H Club Box 5.
You won't just be showing your support for Filipino komix in general, you'll also be showing your support for all the mighty fine artists who've collaborated with me.
AND you'll be showing your support for mervstore, who are busy carving out new avenues for greater visibility and availability of Filipino comic books...
you
can’t drink just six,
Dave
