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A new mobile application has been developed that will allow users to access a growing library of original Filipino comic book content. Dubbed iKwento, the mobile app offers several wonderful features, including easy-to-read comic book panels specially designed for mobile readers. It will also give independent and mainstream Filipino comic book creators a way to bring their content to a wider audience by partnering with iKwento, created by Synergy 88 Digital. "We hope the app will revive the comic book industry, specially with the current generation. We also want to immortalize comic books before that were not published," said Marc Cua, iKwento project manager. Cua added: "Lastly, we want to give Filipino comic artists a platform to earn and at the same time have a platform to become known in the industry." iKwento's extensive library has many vintage Filipino komiks, which were digitally and painstakingly restored. "Upon downloading the a...

Another superhero film for Senator Manny Pacquiao? Why not! At the launch of Comic Convention Asia 2018 at the City Club in Makati City last September 6, Pacquiao said that he was open to the idea of making another superhero movie in the future. "Pwede pa rin naman....pag may time," said Pacquiao, when asked if he still wanted to do another movie about super hero, during an ambush interview on the same event. Pacquiao said that movie and comic characters are close to his heart because he has done a superhero film entitled "Wapakman," an entry to the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. "Comic characters have a special meaning to me. Remember I played the role of 'Wapakman?' Nakalimutan n'yo na yata ang 'Wapakman?' " said the smiling Filipino boxing champ as the crowd cheered. In the same movie, Pacquiao plays Magno Meneses who is torn between saving the world or staying with his children. "My life has been an open bo...