My Novels (II)

• 'The Yellow Adder' - Obviously, a tribute to Rowan Atkinson's 'The Black Adder'. The story of a royal adviser that is appointed to help build the Portuguese Duchy.

Excerpt:

Long time ago, when there was no Internet, where there was no porn, a time so ancient there was no TV, that when people weren’t working they were making babies, not for fun, but to have more manpower to conquer lands and to shepherd the goats… There was an entity that specialized to teach little young boys into becoming the best advisors a king could have – you know, to make wars interesting - this entity was so secret it had no name, but for history sake, people called it Krome Funny Counselors or, KFC.

Krome – Some say the name of the city this entity was hidden was encrypted in this first word, but no man ever discovered it. (Some women did, but nobody really cared what they think at that time – if they listened to them, maybe KFC wasn’t necessary)

Funny – To disguise its true evil purpose – to dominate the world!!! They tried to be funny anyway, although nobody but them ever really understood their sense of humor, it was hearing one of their jokes a healer once started the rumor that there was a weird disease called schizophrenia that made people hear voices and say weird things – later when the Inquisition was touring Europe, they were called possessed by a strange funny demon and burned at the cross.

Counselors – They gave counsel.

KFC profited from war, from disease, from problems, from young ambitious kings, you can say they were the lawyers of ancient times.

In this story we will tell the adventures of codename Yellow Adder - a brilliant student of KFC, a brilliant silver tongue, Midas touched brilliant man, a mind so brilliant nobody in his time could understand him, a brilliant peasant-born man, brilliantly taught since the day he was born to be the best advisor ever taught by KFC - since the day he had his assignment to the day he heroically died in battle with an arrow...

We start when Yellow Adder had to choose his sidekick...

(More can be found here)

• 'The Merchant of Lubeck' - Set in the 17th century rich merchant town of Lubeck, this is the story of a man blinded by his thirst to find and avenge the death of his father. Old story-line, right? Well, I have my twists to it. A bit of a tribute to Alexandre Dumas' 'The Count of Monte Cristo'.

Excerpt: (laptop - to be added later)

• 'O Sapo Sopas' - A Portuguese children's book with the intent to teach cultural diversity and the danger of climate change. I'll probably write it in English later.
• 'Artur & family' - 'Calvin and Hobbes' meets 'Cyanide and Happiness'.
• 'The Internet Cop' - Hero cop, comic book. The stories of a cop fighting cyber-criminality. A lot of strong language and mature content.

These last three only make sense to present when my illustrator draws a bit for me. This is what it looks like without illustration:

(Desenho da evolução do Sopas de ovo-girino-sapo, com fases tipo: comer algas; numa “sala de aula”; numa corrida com outros girinos; a aprender a caçar insectos)

Narrador: “Com a ajuda dos seus pais e professores, Sopas cresceu depressa, e depressa aprendeu tudo o que um sapo precisa aprender”

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Anyway, I know it may seem a lot and here exposed it seems like a big mess. I thought of placing some pictures here and there so it isn't just a huge wall of text, but it would be an even worse mess...

When I talk about tributes, I'm just trying to give a bigger general idea that maybe a small excerpt alone can't do, of the story. I don't copy anything from anyone, and every story I'm writing has so much influences from so many writers and movies, it would be impossible to identify them all.