- Last week I found an old copy of The Flame. I flipped through the pages only to find, at the last page, my first published comics page. It was titled Omega.

I couldn't stop cringing as I looked at it. I didn't know much about the craft. I did it using Pagemaker, but the lay-out sucked! I was a terribly storyteller.

So now I've decided to rehash the darn story into what I tentatively call V2.0. I'm planning to make it a 10-page storyline to give the character, Vega, an actual background.



- Since the Noah project I was working on with NeoParadiso has been pushed back, I am now working on a project I tentatively call American Accent. It's about Simon, a 19-year old Call Center trainee plagued by speech defects.



- As you can see, I now acknowledge the fact that I can no longer write decent verses, so these scripts are merely exercises to get me into writing again.

I had the most unfortunate accident of staring at Krystala for five minutes...well, it was both annoying and enlightening. ANNOYING because that very same night, between sleep and awake, I saw an image of her in that blasted costume and now...and now it's embedded into my consciousness. I even see it whenever I close my eyes. I hope this affliction is temporary.

However, on the other hand, it made me think of my superhero era, where every conversation I make involves a DC or Marvel character (my friends also refer to it as my X-Men stage). And now I am rethinking my script-writing style. Though I have preferred to make realistic stories (that never even reached pencilling stage), the storytelling method -from my point of view- is still decidedly superhero-ish.

It's not really a new thing, but at least I'm becoming more conscious regarding my writing, which I now take a little more seriously. Back then, I just write stories out of the blue, without designing the characters first or plotting the outline or even planning the general direction I want the readers to take. Before I knew it, I was inking pages without knowing what'll happen in the next page.

LABO.


--And maybe, once I've mastered writing, I'll try writing screenplays.