The Untold Tales of Dog Mendonca & Pizzaboy (One-Shot)
Writer: Filipe Melo
Artist: Juan Cavia
Colorist: Santiago Villa
Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor
Publication Date: October 24, 2012
Format: FC, 40 pages
Price: $2.99
Flanked by his
demonic assistant Pazuul and the “unpaid intern” known as PizzaBoy, overweight
Portuguese werewolf “Dog” Mendonça narrates his own bizarre origin story,
taking us from a traveling circus to a Nazi laboratory to the depths of Loch
Ness! And when we catch up with the present-day Mendonça, can his team adjust
to the new fame and outrageous fortune that come from being published by Dark
Horse Comics? Bite into the raucous adventure that was first serialized in Dark
Horse Presents—now in one comic!
* Find out how Dog
Mendonça got his powers!
* Author Filipe
Melo deliberately breaks the fourth wall for an ironic commentary on the comics
industry itself.
* From the pages of
Dark Horse Presents!
Back in May 2012, I reviewed a fabulous trade paperback
from Dark Horse Comics called The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonca and
Pizzaboy, and I ended up giving it five Sheep. I didn't realize it, but in 2011
there was a four-part series of Dog Mendonca and Pizza Boy in Dark Horse
Presents #4-7. For those who don’t know, Dark Horse Presents is an 80 page-ish
anthology of well-known and new writers/artists where you get a chapter of many
different comics. Kind of like a sampler of what Dark Horse has to offer.
Anyway… Dark Horse has taken all four of
the Dog Mendonca chapters and put them together in a one-shot comic called The
Untold Tales of Dog Mendonca & Pizza Boy.
Because this is a collection of four separate small
chapters from DH Presents, they don’t fit together like one cohesive story, but
you end up getting the story of who Dog is and how he became a detective.
You also get a sense of the character personalities like
Dog, the overweight werewolf, Pazuul, a 6000 year old demon in a six year old
girl’s body, and Pizza Boy, who is a dorky and lovable guy. What is so
delightful about the one shot is how the characters talk to the reader
throughout the action and poke fun at Dark Horse and advertisers with things
like product placement and showing the check they got from Dark Horse.
The art work for this series is fantastic using shading,
facial expressions, and backgrounds to their fullest potential to set the mood
and tell the story. I highly recommend anything Dog Mendonca for those who like
humor, detectives, and quality artwork. It kind of reminds me of Criminal
Macabre, only with a fat werewolf and a little sillier.
5 “Pocket knife carrying” Sheep
Sharon Stogner (edit by Kalpar)
There is even a movie. The trailer is in Portuguese, but still pretty funny
Holy cow! Sounds like you REALLY dug this one. :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, makes me lol when I read it :) I hope there are more to come
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