Midnight Tribunal
10 best books like Midnight Tribunal (Budjette Tan): Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology, Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon, Tabi Po: Isyu 1, The Mythology Class: A Graphic Novel, Zsazsa Zaturnnah sa Kalakhang Maynila (Part One), Elmer, The Filipino Heroes League: Sticks and Stones, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories, Venn Man at iba pang Kalupitan ng Kapalaran!, Manila Noir
| Author | Paolo Chikiamco |
| ISBN | 9719942150 |
Philippine mythology is full of images that ignite the imagination: gods of calamity and baldness, of cosmic time and lost things; the many-layered Skyworld, and weapons that fight their own battles; a ship that is pulled to paradise by a chain, and a giant crab that controls the tides . . . Yet too few...
| Author | Edgar Calabia Samar |
| ISBN | 9715084745 |
Sa tournament ng TALA Online sa bayan ng Balanga, namatay ang lahat ng manlalaro maliban kay Janus. Sunod-sunod pa ang naging kaso ng pagkamatay ng mga kabataan sa computer shops sa iba’t-ibang panig ng bansa. Kinontak si Janus ng nagpakilalang Joey, isa rin umano sa mga nakaligtas sa paglalaro ng...
| Author | Mervin Malonzo |
| ISBN | 9710545345 |
★ National Book Awardee for Graphic Literature (Filipino) ★
Isang lalake ang bigla na lamang nagising sa loob ng isang puno sa gitna ng kagubatan na walang alaala kung sino siya at saan siya nagmula. Ang tanging alaala lang niya ay isang imahe ng babae na nakikita niya sa kanyang panaginip,...
| Author | Arnold Arre |
| ISBN | 9715082793 |
The Mythology Class is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Filipino comic creator Arnold Arre. It was originally published by the author under his own Tala Comics Publishing in four issues in 1999, and was collected into a special edition by Adarna House in September of 2005.
The story...
| Author | Carlo Vergara |
| ISBN | 9710545108 |
Aling Pag-ibig Pa Ang Hihigit Kaya?
After defeating a giant frog, a horde of zombies, and the extraterrestrial Amazonista, small-town beautician Ada begins a new chapter by moving the big city with hunky Dodong, and taking up residence in the old house of his friend Gwyneth. Not only does earning...
Elmer is a window into a world where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans, where they can now consider themselves a race no different than browns, black, or whites. Recognizing themselves to be sentient, the inexplicably evolved chickens push to attain rights...
| Author | Paolo Fabregas |
| ISBN | 9710545043 |
I admire the many firsts that this local graphic novel achieved: (1) the appearance of six new Filipino comics superheroes in one book; (2) the artist, Paolo Fabregas is both the illustrator as well as the storyteller that ensures the seamless transfer of his ideas to his drawings; (3) the good-looking...
Award-winning author Eliza Victoria mixes magic with the mundane in this special concoction of 16 short stories. A girl meets a young man with the legs of a chicken. A boy is employed by a goddess running a pawnshop. A group of teenagers are trapped in an enchanted forest for 900 days. A man finds himself...
| Author | Manix Abrera |
| ISBN | 9710545027 |
I am now running out of what else to say about this series.
One morning though, I got a copy of one of our broadsheets here in the Philippines, The Philippine Daily Inquirer and saw that this comic strip is serialized there. I knew that all along but since I have not been buying newspapers anymore...
"While certain cities in past Akashic volumes might appear to lack an obvious noir element, Manila (like Mexico City, which shares many of the same problems) practically defines it, as shown by the 14 selections in this excellent anthology. As Hagedorn points out in her insightful introduction,...
"A compilation of well loved comic strips created by cartoonist Apolonio 'Pol' Medina Jr.. It started appearing as a black-and-white daily strip in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988, and as a full-color Sunday strip in the same paper in October 3, 2004. It currently appears exclusively...
| Author | Karen Francisco |
| ISBN | 9719456949 |
never were they myth in the first place...
The world ended. It was not because of a comet, prophecy, natural disaster or whatever garbage foretold on the internet, but because every myth ever written turned out to be an account of historical fact. These monsters we’ve read about as children...
