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For a country that goes nuts over celebrity editions of reality TV shows, fantaseryes and character mash-ups, it’s quite surprising that there hasn’t been a TV show or a movie about a superhero collective.

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Zayden Ramos has just published his first book. Lots of people have books published, but Zayden just turned five years old. Usually kids his age are just starting to read.

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Imagine this: a police procedural set in the Philippines, except one of a completely unique type — the crimes of which involve cases such as that lady clad in white always lingering around Balete drive; or the infamous snake child of a wealthy shopping mall owner who claims prey in the women’s dressing rooms.

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Alexandra Trese, the graphic novel series written by Budjette Tan and illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo, is set in that other Manila, the one on the fringes of your consciousness, where the criminal underworld really is from the underworld.

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The number thirteen doesn’t need to be unlucky.

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Zayden Ramos has just published his first book. Lots of people have books published, but Zayden just turned five years old. Usually kids his age are just starting to read.

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Alexandra Trese, the graphic novel series written by Budjette Tan and illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo, is set in that other Manila, the one on the fringes of your consciousness, where the criminal underworld really is from the underworld.

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The number thirteen doesn’t need to be unlucky.

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As I do not usually visit the Philippine Star office, it was serendipitous that I found a mysterious package for me on ...

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