Written by Gerry Alanguilan with Arnold Arre on art duties, Darna Lives is a dark reimagining of Mars Ravelo’s Darna, inspired by Alan Moore’s Marvelman. The very short nine-page story deals with a middle-aged Narda living a very unremarkable life, her previous adventures as Darna seemingly forgotten.

That’s all there is to Darna Lives, really, since it’s only nine pages long. Alanguilan and Arre felt that it would be improper to complete the story in its entirety without the permission of Ravelo family. Which is a shame – this comic gives off a completely Dark Knight Returns vibe, and as far as I know no local superhero has been given this treatment.

Darna Lives page 1, art by Gerry Alanguilan

This needs more support so we can see the Ravelos giving Alanguilan and Arre their blessing to complete the story and for Darna Lives to be picked up by a publisher. You guys have to show your support for this so that it gets off the ground, so everyone, go ahead and spread the word!

The comic can be read for free in its entirety at http://darnalives.blogspot.com and I suggest you go ahead and do so. It would be a crime to not read this.

Wait, comic book creators gives us previews now? I mean, uhh, hello and welcome! Here we have the preview issue of Chad Cabrera and Mike Banting‘s Drop Dead Dangerous! Released for free at the recently held KOMIKON last week, Drop Dead Dangerous is a Murder Mystery comic book in set in the weird weird west. And now here’s the first 5 rape-homicide-tastic pages of it! A link to the entire preview issue is available at the end of the article. INDIE CRED, YO! (continue reading…)

… we’re having way too much fun with the Scott Pilgrim avatar creator. Try it you guys!

Why have I not read this comic before?

So, yeah. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim’s a slacker, bassist for a pretty average garage rock band, and he’s kind of a womanizer and he’s a jerk. Also, he’s Canadian. He’s fallen for Ramona Powers, an American girl who’s a ninja delivery girl for Amazon.ca. She has seven evil exes. To win her love, he must defeat all seven exes in combat. (continue reading…)

This is KomiKon Week at Comicgasm, and although I wasn’t there (something I so utterly regret), I had a good friend pick up a copy of Lyndon Gregorio’s Go-Beerkada: The Rise of the Jhologs.

Before I go on rambling about the review, the way my friend was able to acquire this little piece of comic book history is a bit of a story by itself. You see, ever since it was advertised on Beerkada’s website, I wanted to get my hands on Go-Beerkada.

So when KomiKon came and I didn’t have time to go there, I immediately bugged a friend to buy me a copy of Go-Beerkada. Unfortunately, he has never heard of Beerkada before. How the heck that happened, I don’t know. Anyway, he was going around Megatrade Hall looking for the elusive Beerkada graphic novel. (continue reading…)