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Muros: Manila Behind Walls

Paolo Chikiamco

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01-February-2023
112 Pages
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An intrepid gumshoe tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case in a city about to erupt into violence?

Manila the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule is a magical metropolis where monsters flit and feed along neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged dystopian graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. In a city now governed by the mysterious Societies, tensions between the human and nonhuman inhabitants are about to hit a breaking point.
When the one-eyed Yomaws are accused of exhuming and consuming human cadavers, Carlos sets out to clear their name, unmask the true culprits and restore the lost the culprits and return the lost daughter to the fold.
This graphic thriller features:

  • A newly freed Manila, walled off since World War II, where the Tyranny's regime has fallen and the open city is governed by the mysterious Societies.
  • A one-armed Taga-Sagot a gatherer of information, an answerer of questions, a fount of knowledge is charged with finding the missing 'daughter' of a small-town mayor lost amidst the temptations of the open city, now a den of pleasure districts and corruption.
  • The cast of nonhuman and fantasy characters includes one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals.

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Muros: Manila Behind Walls

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An intrepid gumshoe tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case in a city about to erupt into violence?

Manila the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule is a magical metropolis where monsters flit and feed along neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged dystopian graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. In a city now governed by the mysterious Societies, tensions between the human and nonhuman inhabitants are about to hit a breaking point.
When the one-eyed Yomaws are accused of exhuming and consuming human cadavers, Carlos sets out to clear their name, unmask the true culprits and restore the lost the culprits and return the lost daughter to the fold.
This graphic thriller features:

  • A newly freed Manila, walled off since World War II, where the Tyranny's regime has fallen and the open city is governed by the mysterious Societies.
  • A one-armed Taga-Sagot a gatherer of information, an answerer of questions, a fount of knowledge is charged with finding the missing 'daughter' of a small-town mayor lost amidst the temptations of the open city, now a den of pleasure districts and corruption.
  • The cast of nonhuman and fantasy characters includes one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals.

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