I was already buying the book when they said, it comes with the calendar, and goes in a pizza box! Awesome!
It’s June 17, 1994, and Turbo Pizza in Houston, Texas, is faced with an influx of orders as three major events — the NBA playoffs, the 1st World Cup hosted by the USA, and national coverage of OJ Simpson’s infamous police chase in Los Angeles — can either make or break the last independent pizza place in town on the busiest pizza delivery day in history
This is a rated R comedy, with an underriding plot being the results of the bored wife ordering pizza to have sex with the pizza guy.
"Is It Still Hot", the magic 4 code words that are better than a cash tip.
But the main story is the young guy on the edge of deciding to be a pizza guy forever (8 years of delivering, and you'll die a pizza delivery guy) or getting on the career track with the local PD like his dad did, impressing his girlfriend, and happily ever after.
But check this bit of coolness out, not jut a comic book, this "Deep Dish Omnibus" is all 6 individual comic books in one, and adding to the fast pace, great writing and imagery, are the cassette tape icons telling you to play the songs listed on page one of each chapter, to double up on the experience... visual and audio soundtrack to make for a killer experience. No book I've ever read has ever done THAT! It's incredibly innovative!
He was a pizza hero for many reasons, but chief among them was delivering pizza during the floods, with a jet ski! And his great tips, like : tip #2 Change your horn to sound like a doorbell so the customer will come to the door quicker"
the pizza delivery guys are all driving, but some are driving Mopars!
The main character, Figgs, has a 440 powered, pizza cutter hood ornamented, '78 Dodge Monaco "Black Thunder"
A '70 Hemi 'Cuda "The Slayer" is the ride of the Dragon
the story is fast, funny, and completely realistic, and the art matches the story, and keeps you reading at a fast pace... I really love this book
and it often has some unexpected cool stuff like Sam Jackson in a dream sequence, and the lyrics of "American Pie"
so get yourself one, or tell your friends you know what you want for your birthday!
Yehudi was a pizza delivery driver but now draws and writes for a living. He's done video games, music videos, short films, screenplays, commercials, an animated series and graphic novels. As a child, Yehudi would throw himself down several flights of stairs in order to prepare himself to be a stunt man. Bruising and breaking easily, Yehudi took the easy way out and chose to draw and film stunts instead. He lives with his girlfriend, Eileen, in Austin, TX.
for a slick professional review: http://www.dailycal.org/2014/06/18/buffalo-speedway-delivers-entertaining-look-life-pizza-boy/
or a great Q n A with Yehudi http://archive.wired.com/geekmom/2013/03/10-questions-for-comics-creator-yehudi-mercado/
Buffalo Speedway was a horse race track https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwets between the civil war and WW2 owned by the guy that put in the first street car rails in Houston, and then they named a street Buffalo Speedway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Speedway
http://www.turbopizza.com/
http://www.supermercadostore.com/
https://www.facebook.com/YehudiSuperMercado
http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Speedway-Deep-Dish-Omnibus/dp/0692225293
http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/25515-where-buffalo-speedway-got-its-name/
Below is referencing the movie the kid characters in the movie "Super 8" were making
and that, is the coolest thing I've seen today! http://www.supermercadoent.com/illustrations/super-8-the-case/
