ESSAY by MIKKO MARCELO
This entry was a little hard to follow. The art is consistent. It's not the best and you see the degradation in the art as you go through the pages. Page 2 is particularly worthy of note / praise because it's a nice full blown artistic / symbolic page. If only the participant was able to make the art and the story more cohesive. The story (or lack thereof) is hard to follow. It's confusing from the beginning. You just get a sense of what's happening when you're told that the main character is just writing an essay (guess what the title / theme of the essay is supposed to be...yep, "Bakit asting ang pinoy?") and sticking true to mañana habit, wastes time playing computer games and smoking. He even gets enough time to win a computer game contest. In the end he finishes his essay with one sentence. I'm telling you, it's either the one who made this was on something or you need to be on something to appreciate this comic. I mean there's a story in it but it just shifts too much and doesn't really get to the point. It feels like he/she had multiple points to push across in mind but flutters around from point to point like something about Filipinos going abroad, something about winning computer games, something about identity. This could have been a great entry and it probably still is but it's just one that I don't appreciate that much.
Rating: 2 / 5 (Sorry it's just not for me. Maybe it's a 3 or even a 4 for others but not for me.)
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