Comic Review: The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonca and Pizzaboy Volume 3: Requiem TPB from Dark Horse Comics

The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonca and Pizzaboy Volume 3: Requiem TPB
Writer: Filipe Melo

Artist: Juan Cavia

Colorist: Santiago Villa

Cover Artist: Juan Cavia
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror, Humor
January 20, 2016

Dark Horse Comics

Format: FC, 128 pages; TPB, 6'' x 9''

Price: $12.99

Age range: 14

ISBN-10:1-61655-882-2

ISBN-13:978-1-61655-882-6

Preview

Banding together one final time, a world-weary werewolf, a six-thousand-year-old demon, a nervous gargoyle, and a former pizza-delivery boy face a worldwide monster invasion! Dog Mendonca is a hit sensation in its home country of Portugal, and this English-language edition includes a special making-of section and a foreword by legendary horror director and writer Tobe Hooper!

* A celebrated international team delivers a mash-up of humor, horror, and end-of-days drama!

* The final volume in the Dog Mendonca trilogy!

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I Love Dog Mendonca, Pizzaboy and the rest of the gang. They have saved the world, twice, and at the end of Volume #2 Dog and his six thousand year old partner Pazuul were heroes living the high life as celebrities. Volume 3 Requiem picks up years later. Pizzaboy choose to live the quiet life helping the homeless and raising twins with his wife. Dog finds out he is now homeless and no longer relevant. So he stops by to pay Pizzaboy a visit with Pazuul in tow...and becomes the house guest that never leaves. A past nemesis has come to get revenge by turning the monsters Dog helped save, against him. The gang must get back together to help save Dog!

Like the first two volumes, the artwork is on point, but there isn't a lot of variation in the panel set up. We finally learn about Dog's past through flashbacks, and what shaped who he is today. Lots of things happen in this issue and I don't want to spoil what becomes of Dog and his friends and the monster world, but everything is tied up nicely—the end of the road for Dog and Pizzaboy. This volume isn't as exciting as the first two, but it deals more with the characters and feelings and closure. Still, a must read if you're following the series. 

5 Sheep Review: The Untold Tales of Dog Mendonca & Pizzaboy
5 Sheep Review: The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonca and Pizzaboy

3.75 "cha-cha-cha-changes" Sheep

SharonS

Comic Review (ARC): The Untold Tales of Dog Mendonca & Pizzaboy (One-Shot)

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

UPC: 7 61568 21704 9 00111 

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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!

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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