Recently, Marvel Entertainment was saddened to hear of the sudden loss of creator Gerry Alanguilan on December 21, 2019. Best known as an artist and inker, the Filipino artist worked with everyone in the comic book industry from Whilce Portacio and Leinil Francis Yu to Warren Ellis, Mark Waid and Ta-Nehisi Coates to bring some of Marvel's most famous characters to life on the comic page.

Early in his career, Alanguilan began making his own comics in the Philippines, where he is often credited for reinvigorating the popularity of comic books within the country. His independent work went on to draw international attention and garnered a great deal of buzz from the mainstream American comics industry.

In the mid-to-late ’90s, he started inking books at Image Comics working with Whilce Portacio and others. By 1998, he entered the House of Ideas with WOLVERINE #121 wherein he inked Leinil Francis Yu's pencils on a Warren Ellis-penned script.

In 2000, Alanguilan re-teamed with both Portacio and Ellis on X-FORCE along with co-writer Ian Edginton. This was during the Revolution and Counter-X era when Ellis oversaw an overhaul of the X-books.