CHECK THIS OUT! (July 30, 2022)

ARENA Glossary (1)

ARENA GLOSSARY

domaz

the winner of the previous Tornos, who acts as a scorekeeper/referee/impartial observer for the current one

numen (pl. numina)

omnipotent entity (considered by some as a deity) who views the Tornos as idle entertainment; each numen acts as a patron for a pehon

pehon (pl. pehonem)

fighter chosen (and often abducted from their home dimension) to represent a particular numen in the Tornos

taumaz

a group of four pehonem temporarily allied together

Tornos

a tournament the numina mount on a regular basis, in which pehonem battle each other till only one remains undefeated, becoming the winner, and subsequently, the domaz for the next Tornos

Vahta

the isolated location from where the numina observe the Tornos

(the) Vanayis (The Wish Without Limit)

the ultimate prize of the Tornos, a reality-altering wish

If you haven't read the first episode of ARENA yet, and have absolutely no idea what those funky words are all about, then please click on the logo above for front row seats to the Tornos.

(Click on the logo, people...

Click on the logo and engage...)

ARENA is brought to you by the tag team responsible for the DAKILA: Siyudad story arc--the mighty fine Pytr Mutuc on art and colors, Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters.

As with PODERICO POWERBOMB!, ARENA is also one of the many, many entries in the Webtoon "Call to Action" contest, so, we need as much support as all you mighty fine folk can muster...

We need what Webtoon calls "engagement"...

So, please, engage away, people!

And please be kind enough to help spread the word; feel free to share the ARENA link to any and all, particularly those you feel would groove to its distinctive beat.

As I've said before, my mighty fine collaborators Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc, and I, need all the support we can get, and all the support all you mighty fine people out there can muster.

Thanx so much!

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

Thanx to my mighty fine co-creators on PODERICO POWERBOMB! and ARENA, Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc.

Thanx to all you mighty fine folk helping to spread the word.

(ARENA logo designed by Pytr Mutuc.)

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 27, 2022) PODERICO POWERBOMB! Glossary (1)

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 27, 2022)

PODERICO POWERBOMB! Glossary (1)

                                                                    

What you'll find here, though we're calling it a glossary, can actually be looked at as a primer as well.

For anyone who's read (or is about to read) PODERICO POWERBOMB!, and who happens to be unfamiliar with Filipino myth and folklore or things like Filipino place names, then we've got you covered here.

Our intent is to present an updateable glossary/primer, in that new terms and entries will be added as new episodes are released, and these updates will hopefully be of service to those who may be encountering these terms for the first time.

To wit:

PODERICO POWERBOMB! GLOSSARY

BGC

Bonifacio Global City, a “financial and lifestyle district” located in the city of Taguig in Metro Manila

bruho [broo-ho; from the Spanish brujo]

male witch, sorceror, witch doctor; often a practitioner of so-called “black” magick

danag [da-nag]

race of vampiric humanoids

datu [da-too]

title used to denote the ruler of a particular group or community; equated with “chief” or “prince”

diwata [di-wa-ta]

spirit who protects the land and those who dwell upon it 

huevos [hoo-we-vos]

eggs

huevos rancheros [ran-che-ros]

literally, ranch-style eggs

kantahan [kan-ta-han]

singing

mijo [mee-ho]

contraction of mi hijo, "my son"; a term of endearment sometimes used regardless of blood relation

Pasay [Pa-sai]

city located in Metro Manila

Pasig [Pa-sig]

city located in Metro Manila

We hope that helps those who might have stumbled on some unfamiliar terms...

PODERICO POWERBOMB! is brought to you by the tag team responsible for the Dakila/Fr Trese DEVIATION crossover, "Iunctura"--that would be the mighty fine Marv del Mundo on art and colors, and Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters.

Click on the image below to join Team 'Rico!

Please be kind enough to help spread the word; feel free to share the PODERICO POWERBOMB! link to any and all, particularly those you feel would groove to its distinctive beat.

My mighty fine collaborator Marv del Mundo and I would greatly appreciate the support.

Thanx so much!

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

Thanx to my mighty fine co-creators on PODERICO POWERBOMB! and ARENA, Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc.

Thanx to all you mighty fine folk helping to spread the word.

(PODERICO POWERBOMB! logo designed by Marv del Mundo.)

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 24, 2022) [Updated with New Link]

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 24, 2022)

[UPDATED with NEW LINK]

Is!

Now!!

Live!!!

Click on the logo, people...

Click on the logo and engage...

ARENA is brought to you by the tag team responsible for the DAKILA: Siyudad story arc--the mighty fine Pytr Mutuc on art and colors, Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters.

As with PODERICO POWERBOMB!, ARENA is also one of the many, many entries in the Webtoon "Call to Action" contest, so, we need as much support as all you mighty fine folk can muster...

We need what Webtoon calls "engagement"...

So, please, engage away, people!

If all goes well, this will hopefully be our foot in the Webtoon door, and for those of you who are familiar with my writing, you'll know that there is still so much more story to be told...

And, if you haven't checked it out yet, there's also

                                                                    

which you can find

PODERICO POWERBOMB! is brought to you by the tag team responsible for the Dakila/Fr Trese DEVIATION crossover, "Iunctura"--that would be the mighty fine Marv del Mundo on art and colors, and Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters.

You can check out some promo art here and here, or as a tag team combo, here.

Please be kind enough to help spread the word; feel free to share the PODERICO POWERBOMB! and ARENA links to any and all, particularly those you feel would groove to their distinctive beats.

As I've said before, my mighty fine collaborators Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc, and I, need all the support we can get, and all the support all you mighty fine people out there can muster.

Engage away, people!

Thanx so much!

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

Thanx to my mighty fine co-creators on PODERICO POWERBOMB! and ARENA, Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc.

Thanx to all you mighty fine folk helping to spread the word.

(ARENA logo designed by Pytr Mutuc; PODERICO POWERBOMB! logo designed by Marv del Mundo.)

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 19, 2022)

CHECK THIS OUT! (July 19, 2022)

                                                                    

Is!

Now!!

Live!!!

See?!

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/poderico-powerbomb/all-manner-of-things/viewer?title_no=787924&episode_no=1

(Actually, both images above are links too, so, hey, please feel free to click away...)

Brought to you by the tag team responsible for the Dakila/Fr Trese DEVIATION crossover, "Iunctura"--that would be the mighty fine Marv del Mundo on art and coloring, and Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters--PODERICO POWERBOMB! is one of the many, many entries in the Webtoon "Call to Action" contest, so, as I said in an earlier "Check This Out", we need all the support all you mighty fine folk can give us...

While a majority of the judging percentages lies in the work itself and is determined by Webtoon's judges, there is a percentage taken up by "engagement."

So engage away, people!

If all goes well, this will hopefully be our foot in the Webtoon door, and for those of you who are familiar with my writing, you'll know that there is still so much more story to be told...

As for

from the tag team responsible for the DAKILA: Siyudad story arc--Pytr Mutuc on art and colors, Ye Olde Space Monkey on script and letters--this should hopefully go live sometime later this week...

You can check out some promo art here and here, or as a tag team combo, here.

Please be kind enough to help spread the word; feel free to share the PODERICO POWERBOMB! links to any and all, particularly those you feel would groove to its beat.

As I said, my mighty fine collaborators Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc, and I, need all the support we can get, and all the support all you mighty fine people out there can muster.

Engage away, people!

Thanx so much!

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

Thanx to my mighty fine co-creators on PODERICO POWERBOMB! and ARENA, Marv del Mundo and Pytr Mutuc.

Thanx to all you mighty fine folk helping to spread the word.

(PODERICO POWERBOMB! logo designed by Marv del Mundo; ARENA logo designed by Pytr Mutuc.)

 TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1

TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1 is now available to order on Shopee.

I had originally intended to make that announcement in a new Out of the Gutter post where I was going to talk a bit more about one of my contributions, but alas, some Personal Life Upheaval stuff raging, so I'll try and get around to that particular OotG at some point.

For now, my contributions are as follows:

The Fr. Matthias Trese case, “That Kind of Hunger” (art by the mighty fine Brian Balondo) and

the Fr. Trese and Dakila Deviation, “Iunctura” (AKA DEVIATIONS Issue 1; art by the mighty fine Marvin del Mundo).

If "Iunctura" makes you want to see more Dakila (and I really hope it does), then kindly click on down to the Indies section of the Avenida website, where you'll find these 'Verse goodies...

Support independently published local comics!

In the meantime, let's continue to trudge through this liminal space, leaving the massive dumpster fire that was TFNY 2020...

Hopefully, 2021 will be kinder to the human race...

With that said:

 

Stay safe.

Stay sane.

 

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

OUT OF THE GUTTER (4) “Iunctura”

OUT OF THE GUTTER (4)

“Iunctura”

David Hontiveros / Marvin del Mundo

[Contained in TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1]

This piece originally appeared in the DEVIATIONS issue 1 “Iunctura” floppy release.

It appears here at the Iguana for any readers who will be reading the story in BLOODLINES Volume 1 for the first time.

 

When Budjette asked me if I was interested in writing Fr. Matt, I very quickly landed on having my first script be a team-up between Fr. Matt and Dakila.

There are a number of reasons for that, and these are two of them.

One:

The only established foundation for the character of Fr. Matt was the “Linda Blasco” story; I was given free rein in terms of not just his personal backstory, but also the finer details of the type of demons he faces as well as the further specifics of the organization he’s a part of.

 

And while the relatively open slate I was presented with eased away some of the pressure on one end (there wasn’t much I could possibly contradict, given the single issue worth of story that was my, ahem, Bible for Fr. Matt), it also compounded the pressure on the other (because in the final analysis, this was going to be all me).

 

So I felt I needed to ease into the character of Fr. Matt, and having another character there, someone I’ve been actively thinking about and writing for a whole slew of scripts and issues and years, was sort of my security blanket.

If I knew exactly what Dakila would say and how he’d react to any given situation, that would free me up to focus on Fr. Matt, so I could discover who he is as a person and an individual, and I would then, in turn, eventually know what Fr. Matt would say and how he’d react to any given situation.

I wasn’t just discovering Fr. Matt from my viewpoint as the writer; I was also discovering Fr. Matt through Dakila’s eyes, and that helped the process tremendously.

Two:

The thought of chronicling how a priest would react to meeting a superhero who happens to be “the champion of God”...

That was a no-brainer and too, heh, tempting an opportunity to pass up.

So I opted to have IUNCTURA be the first Fr. Matt script I wrote.

 

And yes, for those of you who super-parsed that sentence, there are more Fr. Matt scripts that have already been written, some focusing more on Fr. Matt (and which lean more towards the horror end of the spectrum) and some featuring the further adventures of the Divinely Dynamic Duo, Dakila and Fr. Matt, both types of stories working in tandem to help build out the world of the Mercy Seat and the Malevari.

 

So we all hope you enjoy this first step that takes us deeper into the world of Fr. Matt, where demons buzz and shriek with the voices of the once-possessed, and where priests can be trusted to kick Evil’s ass for the Lord...

--dave (Space Monkey)

October 2019

And with that dispatch from the Long Ago sent out into the wilds of the Interwebz, let me leave you with:

 

Stay safe.

Stay sane.

 

you can’t drink just six,

 

Dave

TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1 contains both

“Iunctura” (AKA DEVIATIONS Issue 1; art by the mighty fine Marvin del Mundo), and

“That Kind of Hunger” (art by the mighty fine Brian Balondo).

TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1 is now available for preorder at the Avenida website.

There's still time to preorder (20% off cover price), so long as payment is made by December 17, 2020, which is tomorrow, so chop chop!

Shipping starts on December 21, 2020, Monday next week.

And while you're down Avenida way to preorder, it would be greatly appreciated if you also check out the Indies section, where you'll find more Dakila in these 'Verse goodies...

OUT OF THE GUTTER (3) “That Kind of Hunger”

OUT OF THE GUTTER (3)

“That Kind of Hunger”

David Hontiveros / Brian Balondo

[Contained in TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1]

For the record: while “That Kind of Hunger” may be the first Solo Fr. Matt story penned by me that you’ll be reading, this isn’t the first Solo Fr. Matt (SFM, as opposed to a DEVIATIONS X-Over/team up) script that I wrote.

When DEVIATIONS launched at last year’s NovKon (in the Far, Far Away Time of the Long Ago), I had already completed first drafts of “Congrego” (aka DEVIATIONS issue 2) and “A Higher Decision of Instinct,” my first crack at a SFM tale, and a closer look at the ways in which the Mercy Seat operates.

But shortly after the Secret HQ event (thanx so much to all you mighty fine folk who dropped by for that), Budjette asked if we could launch the FATHER TRESE title with a more Fr. Matt-focused story.

I had a number of other SFM story ideas bubbling under the surface, and the one that rose to the top was “That Kind of Hunger.” (Or, as I referred to it in the script, the one with Fr. Matt, a couple of demons, and a bunch of rich A-holes.)

Under the “more Fr. Matt-focused” directive from On High, the rest of his Trinity are mentioned, but are firmly kept off-panel.

So, for those of you who may want to see more of Frs. Bronze and Alloy, as well as some other fresh Hilasterion faces, you’ll need to wait for whenever the originally-issue 1-but-now-going-to-be-issue 2 SFM script gets drawn and scheduled for release.

And any dangling plot threads visible at the end of “That Kind of Hunger” will likewise need to wait to resurface sometime in the hopefully foreseeable future...

(Thus are the wages of one of the other directives from On High, the “each issue needs to be a one-and-done.”)

And while the main bulk of the pages were drawn during lockdown by the mighty fine Brian Balondo, the “Hunger” script was indeed written back in the Long Ago, before all this tragic insanity descended upon us…

In a related aside, a first draft of DEVIATIONS issue 3 (“Liberatio”) is also already in Budjette’s Inbox, and DEVIATIONS issues 4 (“Deviatus”) and 5 (the double-length “Pestis”) are very nearly at the “first draft good to go” stage.

Meanwhile, on the SFM front, a particularly angry script, the bulk of which was written during the depths of lockdown (working title: “No Such Thing”), is also nearly at “first draft good to go,” and a script that picks up where “That Kind of Hunger” leaves off (working title: “Beyond the Rivers of Cush”), where we see the fallout of that bloody night at Olazo Elementary School, is gradually formulating at the back of my mind…

All these scripts of course, subject to scheduling based on the release plans from On High…

(Pssssttt… if you want to see these sooner rather than later, then bug Budjette on that newfangled thing called… “social media”? Did I get that right?)

I should also probably mention that the current working title for the SFM book is SANCTUS, and though it’s technically the “Solo Fr. Matt” book, it’s also meant to be a guided tour of the much wider stage upon which the Mercy Seat and the Malevari wage their ongoing war, so we also get to meet a whole lot of other Mercy Seaters in SANCTUS, as well as a host of other characters who color Fr. Matt’s life.

Okay.

I should be posting another OotG text piece soon (what was originally meant to be included along with “That Kind of Hunger”, if its initial release had been in floppy form).

In the meantime though, I’d like to acknowledge the following, for soundtracking the lettering process of “That Kind of Hunger”:

BAUMUSIK

808 State, Best Coast, Depeche Mode, Electric Owls, Propaganda, Rammstein, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, and Xmal Deutschland

And with that said:

Stay safe.

Stay sane.

you can’t drink just six,

Dave

TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1 contains both

“That Kind of Hunger” (art by the mighty fine Brian Balondo) and

“Iunctura” (AKA DEVIATIONS Issue 1; art by the mighty fine Marvin del Mundo).

TRESE: BLOODLINES Volume 1 is now available for preorder at the Avenida website.

And while you're down Avenida way to preorder, it would be greatly appreciated if you also check out the Indies section, where you'll find more Dakila in these 'Verse goodies...