Line #1 ComicBook/MesmoDelivery


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3	->''"We all think we’re familiar with the language of comics and that's why ''Mesmo Delivery'' is such a revelation: it uses the language in a way it hasn’t been used before."''
4	-->-- '''Creator/BrianAzzarello''', from his introduction
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6	Graphic designer and animator Rafael Grampa’s (who had previously done the art for a few short comics including a ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' anthology) debut graphic novel, it is insane and depraved in the best way possible. Best described as Sam Peckinpah meets ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''.
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8	Mesmo Delivery is a short and ambiguously eerie story about a violent confrontation at a seedy road side diner between Rufo, an ex-boxer now working as a truck driver and Forceps, a mean-spirited street fighter. Unfortunately for everyone Sangrecco, Rufo’s fellow courier who is under specific instructions to not let any one find out exactly what their cargo is, decides to intervene in the fight and it’s not pretty.
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10	Grampa’s art and story telling is … unique, a visual style that consists of cartoony proportions with lots of fine stippling and lush brushwork that suggests a rough texture and a visceral but distorted world. His skill at form and perspective gives the comic’s fight scenes some excellent choreography.
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13	!!The comic gives examples of
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15	* AssholeVictim: Forceps is kind of a dick, so his fate doesn't really strike any sadness in the audience.
16	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: You could be forgiven for mistaking Sangrecco as some lanky oddball who talks too much, but it would be a horrible mistake.
17	* CulturalTranslation: Forceps's name in the original Brazilian is "Tiradentes" (lit: Tooth-puller) which is both an archaic term for a dentist and more famously the name of one of the greatest Brazilian historical national heroes of all time. The reference would likely fly past the heads of non-Brazilians, so they swapped it to Forceps everywhere else.
18	%% * DesignStudentsOrgasm: When Rufo gets knocked out his dream could be called one of these.
19	* DinerBrawl: The plot kicks off after a nasty altercation at a truck stop.
20	* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Rufo ordering a glass of milk gets him mocked by Forceps and his group.
21	%% * ElvisImpersonator: Unusually, Sangrecco seems to be a impersonator of the younger, fit Elvis (going by Sangrecco's LeanAndMean bodytype and overall appearance).
22	%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Sangrecco is quite personable but make no mistake, the man's a lunatic.
23	%% * FlashBack
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Rufo enters the diner Forceps is telling his friends about how he punched someone so hard once one of their teeth embedded itself in his hand. And when Sangrecco is talking about how he would have been a better Elvis than Elvis he says what most readers would think of as ridiculous bragging.
25	-->'''Sangrecco:''' "He did Karate. I got that and five other styles under my hat."
26	* {{Gorn}}: You better have strong stomach if you want to read this comic.
27	%% * GreasySpoon: the main setting.
28	%% * LeanAndMean: Sangrecco and Forceps to lesser extent.
29	%% * MadArtist: Sangrecco is obsessed with his art and quite psychotic.
30	* RedRightHand: Forceps has an artificial hand that he can detach and swap around for a massive grey fist because as a kid he went "plum crazy fer them cartoons where the fella'd blow his fist up big like a balloon"
31	* RiddleForTheAges: Are Sangrecco and the titular delivery company people smugglers or something even more sinister?
32	* SeinfeldianConversation: The comic opens with Sangrecco telling Rufo he would have made better Elvis than Elvis and listing the reasons why.
33	* SoundtrackDissonance: While it's a comic, Sangrecco singing the Elvis classic "A Little Less Conversation" [[spoiler: whilst he butchers half-a-dozen people]] is clearly meant to be dissonant.
34	%% * TopHeavyGuy: Rufo
35	* TheUnreveal: Just what is in that truck? [[spoiler: It is strongly implied they carry human corpses]].

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