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Hiya guys and gals, sorry natagalan yung setup ng links and outline for our lecture, but here goes.

Trese webcomic site: tresekomix.blogspot.com
-alternatively you can also get hardcopies kung trip niyo. They sell at Php140 in NBS Katipunan, and the site has a list of other places where you can find it if you're interested.

Roughly, the episodes with the most fodder for analysis, especially connected to lit & society, are:
Case 4 Our Secret Constellation
Case 5 A Little Known Murder In Studio 4
Case 7 Embrace of the Unwanted
Case 8 The Association Dues of Livewell Village

Lecture Outline:

1. The Characters:
-Alexandra Trese and the Kambal
-Capt. Guerrero and the PNP
-The Supernaturals

2. Series Overview

3. Stylistics
*Visual
-Western black and white style ala Sin City, rather than the detailed linework of Filipino Komiks or tonal shading of Japanese Manga.
-Visuals set a dark and moody atmosphere, evocative of night, shadow, and darkness
*Storytelling
-"anti-superhero"
-inspired by Mars Ravelo's komiks and Warren Ellis' doctrine of "pop comics" (readability, ease of entry, no need for copious knowledge of backstory)
-episodic, rather than mega-plot or story-arcing
-Inspired by urban fantasies (Crouch End, X-Files, Nightstalker, etc)
-Film Noir, Heroic Violence, and urban ambiance
-intertextual riffs on "Darna" and Filipino movie industry
*Setting
-Defamiliarization of present issues through the lens of a supernatural world
-A supernatural Metro Manila by night
-Heavy use of traditional and urban folklore (nuno, Darna, the ghosts of Balete Drive, the Dragon of Robinson's Galleria, etc)
*Themes
-Primal Justice
-Be careful what you wish for
-Other worlds, other rules, and "fuzzy barriers"

4. Issues:
Gender:
-Trese as "femme fatale"
-The victimization of women in many of the stories
-The "Darna" character (Case 4: Our Secret Constellation)

Societal:
-Car Culture and drag racing (Case 2: The Rules of The Race)
-Showbiz (Case 5: A Little Known Murder In Studio 4)
-Mall Culture & Abortion (Case 7: Embrace of the Unwanted)
-Subdivision insularity (Case 8: The Association Dues of Livewell Village)


"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier, and poets are the snipers"
-George Wu (Dan Simmons' Hyperion)


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Hiya guys and gals, sorry natagalan yung setup ng links and outline for our lecture, but here goes. Trese webcomic site: tresekomix.blogspot.com -alternatively...
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