Trese

Budjette Tan

Book - 2020

Vol. 1: "When the sun sets in the city of Manila, don't you dare make a wrong turn and end up in that dimly-lit side of the metro, where blood-sucking aswang run the most-wanted kidnampping rings, where gigantic kapre are the kingpins of crime, and magical engkantos slip through the cracks and steal your most precious possessions. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese." - back cover.

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Subjects
Genres
Detective and mystery comics
Graphic novels
Published
Portland, OR : Ablaze 2020-
Language
English
Main Author
Budjette Tan (author)
Other Authors
Kajo Baldisimo, 1978- (artist)
Item Description
"Netflix: A Netflix original anime series"--Cover.
Physical Description
volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience
Rated: Mature.
ISBN
9781950912193
9781950912339
9781950912421
  • 1. Murder on Balete drive
  • 2. Unreported murders
  • v. 3. Mass murders
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Tan and Baldisimo's series of supernatural noir explores a sinister underworld in the Philippines, now published for the first time in the U.S. Alexandra Trese pursues a criminal gang of aswang--monsters who can take human form. A trail of gruesome deaths in Manila (a woman burned alive in an unscorched room, a man drained of life in a nightclub bathroom)lead the Manila police to realize otherworldly forces are at play, and they call in Alexandra. Her grandfather befriended aswang and her father hunted them, and the unflappable Alexandra navigates arcane alliances and rivalries along with her complicated heritage. With the aid of a menagerie of Filipino folklore creatures and her two masked enforcers, Alexandra finds and eliminates the creatures. The haunting, fine-lined black-and-white art evokes the style of Filipino artists like Nestor Redondo and Alex Niño. Real-world political parallels could be read between the blurred lines of Alexandra's world and the current wave of government-sanctioned extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. Whether that's intentional, there's complexity layered in: the "bad guys" may be monsters, but their killing at the hands of a vigilante and her deadly enforcers plumbs troubled waters. The unconventional monster art and moody, action-packed narratives make this horror-crime series a must-follow for any aficionado of the macabre. (Oct.)Correction: An earlier version of this reviews misspelled Alex Niño's last name.

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