DEADLINE by TOBIE ABAD
One of the few comics in this contest that is cohesive in art and story. The art style is easy to follow. Although from my point of view some pages are essentially "cheats" meaning it's just the same graphic again and again and word splashes like the tick-tock for the clock. However, these aren't "cheats" per se because they are all used to serve the story. Nit picks: Page 17 has the main character crying because she was supposedly called a liar which I couldn't follow. It kind of jars you away from the story, kinda suspends your suspension of disbelief. The story revolves around a young girl who needs to finish her assignment and calls a supposedly scary creature, the Bloody Mary, to help her. She stacks up on matches to keep lighting the candle that seems to call the Bloody Mary creature. And she does all this to get help for her assignment which is, you've guessed it, "Bakit Astig Ang Pinoy?" In a good way the comic relates back to the theme of the contest but somehow I was more hoping for a comic book with a story that actually shows the theme rather than tell it to my face. Still this is one of the more polished results of the contest and deserves to be in the Top 10 more so the Top 5.
Rating: 4/5
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