Gotham City Sirens
May 17th, 2011
When I went back to Manila for my training, I found myself roaming around the mall and ending up in a comic shop. Call it reminiscing but when my sister and I were younger, I would beg my Dad whenever we were in the mall to go visit a comic shop. You can imagine how annoying I was. I guess it was much of a given what my merit for good behavior would be a couple of hundred pesos that eventually turned into a wild frenzy in a comic shop. I wasn’t really big in saving back then neither was I a perfect child so imagine my glee then. Standing in the room with white boxes and tons and tons of comics for P5 – P150 each of different artists and writers, it was like a moment stand still in absolute appreciation of art. My museum.
Unfortunately, people have to grow older and face reality and things change. The comic line that I used to follow, DC’s Catwoman, used to have Jim Balent. Of course, every nerd out there knows that Jim Balent likes his boobs. But it was fun really how he did his drawings then. I loved the plot too. Until the papers went glossy, the Catwoman went psycho fleeing to Manhattan, and going to the comic shop was getting difficult, my passion just died.
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