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.