The Amazing Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizzaboy!



The Amazing Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizzaboy! (from the Portuguese As Incríveis Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy!) is a graphic novel of 120 pages, published by Edições Tinta-da-China. The big project mentor, creator of the original idea, is the musician, writer and director Filipe Melo. Bringing together a team of young talents -- Juan Cavia (design), Santiago Villa (color) and Martin Tejada (adaptation) -- Melo caused the story to take shape and become real.

A young distributor of pizza, a middle-aged P.I. of the supernatural, a demon of 6,000 years and a gargoyle head are the only ones capable of confronting the evil forces that threaten humanity. They will be responsible for a crazy trip that will cross the limits of imagination.

Dark Horse Presents has some issues that work as a Prequel to the story. Also it seems it's going to be distributed for Dark Horse.

Character Sheet in Construction

This book provides examples of:

 * Elaborate Underground Base
 * Dramatic Spotlight
 * Inspector Lestrade - It's not that he is incompententant it's just out of his reach
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old - Pazuul
 * Our Werewolves Are Different
 * Pizza Boy Special Delivery - Guess Who?
 * Thirty Minutes or Its Free - Twenty in this case
 * Shout Out - A poster of the movie The Thing from John Carpenter and that marshmallow creature from Ghostbusters
 * As well as direct references to World of Warcraft and Spider-man
 * Foreshadowing - In Pizzaboy's house there is a poster of a Succubus
 * Stuff Blowing Up - In Pizzaboy's mind thought
 * Our Gargoyles Rock
 * Those Wacky Nazis
 * John Landis - He does the preface
 * Creator Worship - Filipe Melo really likes the guy
 * Children Are Innocent - Except Pazuul
 * Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie - Mutant Zombie Nazi
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language - German and English
 * Masquerade
 * Monster Town - Lisbon apparently
 * Sequel Hook
 * Aliens in Cardiff - Lisbon actually
 * Death Glare - In one of the scenes the quartet all take a pose of it
 * Asskicking Pose - So much that they take their disguising clothes away
 * Cute Monster Girl - the Barmaids in Vlad's Bar
 * Male Gaze - There's a lot of ass shots to the Succubus Barmaids
 * What Could Have Been - Pazuul actually spoke. In the original drawings it seemed the characters had a sort of animesque look. There was going to be a sort of giant Nazi Mook. And apparently was meant to be made as a movie.