THE DAWN.... (Part 1)

Well Minsan Sa Panaginip started out as a group thesis project for a subject on our 3rd year at UST-CAFA. Back then it was tentatively named as Kahimanawari, an old native term for letting God decide what's best. The group was seven members strong, made up of my college buddies; Carlo Cruz, Nate Legaspi, Lucas Luchico, Paolo Villanueva, Huge Cordova, Jojo Villegas, Charlie Teodoro (who jumped ship from another group) and of course myself. We were young creators giddy with the anticipation of finally being able to make a comic book, with having a deadline and our grades being on the line we were pretty sure we will finish this.

The pebble that started the rock slide rolling was the thought of what would the Philippines be if Magellan or any western folk never found us? What if the creatures our elders often use to frighten us when we were kids were real? What if our culture was based on magic and stuff like that? Admittedly we were greatly influenced by the Age of Apocalypse and other reality altering storlines in the X-men Mythos. Anyway with that in mind we were off to do funnybooks.

We started by designing characters for the book, each of us turned in several designs, each of us wanting our characters to be the star of the book. But take note this were just designs, sometimes without thought to who they are, where they come from, they just looked uber cool to us. After gathering a dozen or so of characters we then turned to writing the mythos that will be the foundation of the book. The brainstorming was crazy, from porno references to nanites and silicon based villains even to the point of the absurdity of a sex crazed half god bent on getting supreme power over the land in exchange for his left testicle. Those were fun times, endless retreats (what we called overnights) to Rizal, Manila and Malabon to work on the comics. Sadly the the group thesis project was scrapped by our professor since he said there was not enough time to finish it. So Kahimanawari never saw the light of day... atleast not in its original form.

To be Continued...