Bayoa: No. 1

by Renzo Mercado, Randy Valiente (Illustrator)

Forty years have passed since the EDSA Massacre in the Philippines, and the country has only gotten brutality from a militarized police force, the scales of justice favoring a privileged few, life and death hanging on the tremble of an itchy trigger finger, the division between the rich and the poor widening ever more, and the immortal Dictator ruling over all. From this ruin of a nation comes a reluctant hero forged by the fires of violence and hate and injustice, a man on a mission of vengeance, a rebel with a vision of liberation, a killer with a conscience, a faceless patriot…a soldier names Bayoa. Renzo Mercado and Randy Valiente's Bayoa is the first chapter of a modern day morality play ripped from our history books and news headlines, about the price of freedom, the cost of revenge, and the wages of redemption.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2019

Reviews

[Bianca (The Ultimate Fangirl) · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great start! Details are still a bit murky as it is only the beginning of Bayoa's journey, but left readers in a position of anticipation. Really hoping more from this, because the comic also resonates a bit with the current political climate.