Greetings from Manila, Philippines!
Today, we’re celebrating 110 years of Philippine Independence. To commemorate this awesome anniversary, I think it’s just appropriate that I introduce to you Marvel’s first Filipino super-team, the Triumph Division, that debuted last week in Invincible Iron Man #2!
Red Feather! St. George! Mighty Mother! Anitun! Fighter One! The Wishing Man! The Great Mongoose! WTF, right?! No, I’m kidding. I’m happy to see Filipinos represented in the Marvel U. Really, I am. Anyway, get a load of how Salvador Larroca drew Filipinos!
That’s pretty accurate, if I say so myself. A little too chocolatey, but no biggie. All in all, I’m pretty stoked to see Filipinos in my comics. Not even the fact that there were monks in the creative team’s depiction of Manila bothered me. Monks. In Manila. Oy.
To the Triumph Division, welcome to the Marvel U’s Manila, Philippines! Make your fellow Filipinos proud, you guys! Oh hey, look. One of those out-of-place monks is trying to tell you guys something…
Well, it was good while it lasted. Happy Philippine Independence Day, guys!
12 Jun 08 11:12 am
OMG?! They all freaking died?! Hahahaha!!
Happy independece day!!!
12 Jun 08 1:56 pm
Seven superheroes and no one could stop that from happening?
I say Marvel needs to go back to the drawing board.
12 Jun 08 3:12 pm
hahaha.. at least we have super hero team in Marvel…
12 Jun 08 4:18 pm
@Mark Ian: Correction, we HAD a superhero team in Marvel. Heh.
12 Jun 08 9:25 pm
Yeah saw this from some other post too and the Monks in Manila and the odd character names (except perhaps Anitun) are indeed off. Didn’t even exert much effort to do some research.
But wait, is that the Quiapo Church in the background?
13 Jun 08 3:02 pm
Wait… they are dead? What kind of heroes are they if they died on that kind of explosion?? That sucks!
13 Jun 08 7:33 pm
oh lawd
17 Jun 08 7:22 pm
I hope I’m not too late, happy I.D to you and by the way, the heroes had their glory time
17 Jun 08 8:36 pm
@BaseGuardian: Thanks! And yeah, they had their 15 minutes of fame. Which ended in a blaze of glory!
22 Jul 08 10:13 pm
at least thor went at the funeral
he he he
07 Aug 08 11:48 am
Putanaydana, ampangit. Mas ok pa si Kengkoy e. Walang mongoose tsaka buddha rito, puro militante nu ba yang mga gumagawa ng mga komiks na yan, buti pa ung mga aksyon mini postkards nila late Fernando Poe tsaka Da Boy e, Sus! Nu ba yan???
29 Aug 08 10:38 pm
Dapat sina lastikman, darna captain barbel at si kamandag nalang pinasabog nila eh… tsk tsk tsk… sayang naman…