Jazz Carmona's Ang Huling Salong-Bola

ANG HULING SALONG-BOLA by JAZZ CARMONA

Right off the bat you'll notice that this entry offers something special, art-wise. The illustrations particularly the faces and the anatomy are brilliant. Unfortunately with the 24 hour restriction you see the deterioration quite fast as well. Also among the four main characters two of them look quite similar and it was confusing at some point whether who was speaking to whom. The story is quite straight forward. A group of fishermen get trapped at sea with one of them dying and the rest fighting for the last piece of clothing that they deemed edible. At the last moment they are saved by some mysterious helicopter and the entry relates to the theme in some way / sense by saying that the Philippines is similar to a boat that gets caught in tragedy and everyone helps one another to rise from that tragedy. One nitpick with this entry is that the whole thing feels like it's being controlled by the narrator. The narrator says that the engine dies and it does. The narrator says there's a huge storm and there it appears. In a visual medium you have to be confident especially since the art for this entry was good enough that readers don't really need to be told what's happening since they can see it for themselves. Also the dialogue doesn't seem to be apt for the age of the characters. If they were really that hungry how could have had an old man defeated two younger guys? The reason for holding on to the last piece of clothing is quite ridiculous as well as the reason for them eating it but I'm suspending my disbelief on the latter. There's too much deus ex machina to the story especially since there's suddenly a mysterious helicopter that has come to save them. Still however, this entry has 24 solid pages and the art is good enough if you can forgive some points in the writing.

Rating: 3 / 5 Could have been better. The creator has lots of potential.