SCREENGRAB FROM FACEBOOK/Bongbong Marcos
Former Interior Secretary and presidential aspirant Manuel ‘Mar’ Roxas is not the only candidate who has released a comics booklet on his life.
Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. previously released his own comics booklet illustrating his life, career, and passion for public service.
In a series of Facebook posts dated last October, Marcos released a 20-page online comics book entitled ‘Asikasong Bongbong: Tuloy-tuloy!’ (Attentive Bongbong: Continuous). Black-and-white pages of his life’s limelights were visualized – his menace and playful childhood, extravagant lifestyle with his family before their exile to Hawaii, until his current term as a senator.
The comics booklet was released during the same time as his filing of Certificate of Candidacy for the 2016 elections.
The comics booklet portrayed his return to the Philippines and how he witnessed the country being ‘submerged in poverty and inflation of basic commodities’. This urged him to run for public office, winning a seat in Congress in 1992. He lost a bid for a senatorial seat in 1995 but regained his momentum by serving Ilocos Norte as governor and congressman until he was finally elected as Senator in 2010.
Marcos’ stand and position on various issues hounding the country were enumerated in the comics booklet, such as his advocacies to seek justice for the 44 Special Action Force troopers slain in Mamasapano in 2015 and to monitor implementation of public infrastructure projects. His skeptical discernment of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law was also mentioned. Gianna Francesca Catolico, INQUIRER.net