Story & Character Creation by: Erik Matti and Ronald Stephen Y. Monteverde
Script by: Erik Matti
Additional Scenes and Dialogues by: Michiko Yamamoto and Jade Castro
Illustrated by: Art Chefs
Edited by: Budjette Tan
Reality Entertainment, Inc.
Agosto Dos Pictures, Inc.
(2/5 ★★☆☆☆)
(2/5 ★★☆☆☆)
This is probably the highlight of my Summer Komikon 2012. The promotion of Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles movie and the launch of its comic book adaptation.
Basically this comic book is a shorter version of the movie. It is about the story of Makoy and Sonia, who is nearing her due date. She went back to her hometown that is close to a group of aswangs. As the couple sort out their relationship problem, their lives, most especially of their unborn baby, is threatened due to an aswang accidentally brought home. The creature has disguised itself as a pig. Thus, it has easily entered Sonia's house. After a great battle, the story ends with a flower as a birthday gift given by Makoy to Sonia while the sun rises.
This comic book was the first one given to us as a teaser before the movie was released. The dialogues were great and the illustrations superb in this comic book. It can be seen as an entertaining aswang story that doesn't deviate much from the plots of earlier aswang movies. However, the story mainly boasts more of the visual effects that is incorporated in the movie where this comic book was adapted from.
At some parts, we can see the product placements such as Lipps Candy and Boy Bawang. Both of them were neatly placed in the story. An amusing weapon shown is the improvised blowgun used by Abel. Instead of arrows laced with poison, he uses Boy Bawang that served as bullets against the aswang.
The thing that I really love about this comic book is that it's fully colored. That is a rare treat that could be gotten. Since most of the local comics produced have its contents in black and white.
Aside from the story, this comic book includes many other things. Some of those are story boards, set designs and interviews with Peter Collias and Dave Yu.
The only downside for me is the way it was handled by the one in charge of the layout. One of my pet peeves is regarding the poor layout a comic book is given. Most of it is not seen in the story. It is mostly observed in the behind the set information that this comic book contains. Big disappointment for that part.
Personally, I think that this comic book basically gives away much of the story of the movie. If asked if it should be in one's shelf, I would say it is only good if you collect aswang related comics or locally fully colored ones.
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