ProGay Philippines' president Edgar Oscar Atadero emailed me last Saturday about the next Pink Festival event, as well as my recently released comic book (I put his brief comment in my previous post). He emailed this lengthier and very vivid review just hours ago. I dunno where he's posting it as of this writing, but I'd like to share it anyway. Thanks, Mr. Atadero :)
Lexy, Nance & Argus: SEX, GODS, ROCK & ROLL
... a Bittersweetness Comix by Oliver Pulumbarit
a review by Oscar Atadero
JUST hot off the DIY (do it yourself) firmament comes now Sex, Gods, Rock & Roll, the bound collection of Oliver Pulumbarit's ruminations on pop queerness serialized in Pulp Magazine 2001-2002 plus material previously unpublished.
Seemingly a semi-autobiographical probe into Pulumbarit's apocalyptic musings about his alternating childhood abductions by alien superheroes and religious homophobes who both waged epic battles for control over his psyche, SGR&R paints a seamless terrain of wet dreams faintly recognizable to our lost generation of jologs cyberqueers.
In a series of callcenter-state-of-mind vignettes reeking of day-old pizza, the barely dysfunctional trio of gay boy Lexy and his roomies, Nance the nymphomaniac bisexual and straight-to-queer comicbook writer Argus embark on a journey into odd deconstructions of catholicism, libog and marriage. Along the periphery lurk their assorted lovers, gangbangs, a straight psychic who dies a hundred deaths, and yes, our reliable assortment of pedophile priests, manangs and Malatephiles hellbent on total world domination.
So escape into the caffeine-induced hypnosis that SGR&R evokes. No “elitist art house poseur” would be compleat and astig this year without being seen flipping through its nonchalant irreverence. You really must first be a fucked-up bag of high-school prom jitters to appreciate SGR&R, but failing that, at least have one for a relative.
This must-read how-to guide for better queer living can be purloined from Comic Quest at SM Megamall, SM North and Festival Mall Alabang.
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Oliver Pulumbarit is a freelance writer and artist whose entertainment reviews, feature articles, and illustrations have appeared in MTV Ink, Chemical, Men's Zone, Moist, Pulp, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
