Zannablù is an Italian comic talking about a boar with blue tusks ("Zannablù"
actually means "Blue tusk") and his crazy adventures.
Really crazy.
While the series is mostly made of original stories, also some volumes are parodies of various movies or other things. In 2010, a subline called
Zannini ("Li'l Tusks") is created, completely composed by parodies and in a smaller format than normal issues.
The list of the volumes so far:
List of classic volumes
Zannini
The comic series provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: without the Facebook official page, you wouldn't know Giotto's full name.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Recurring villain Giotto is one in most of the parodies. In the normal stories, he is a Corrupt Prime Minister.
- Early Installment Weirdness: The original version of The Secret of the Béchamel was actually a serious story with some lame jokes that transforms into a Star Wars parody with a random A Clockwork Orange reference in the middle. The remake is more like the other stories, and includes the original story in a shrunk format, with a disclaimer from the authors stating that it sucks compared to the other stories and you shouldn't read it.
- Embarrassing Last Name: Giotto's full name is Giotto R.Giraffotto (the last name literaly means "Fat baby giraffe").
- Fantastic Racism: Boars are discriminated from pigs in the first stories. They get equal opportunities at the end of the third volume.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Giotto always haves a cigarette in his mouth, whatever his role is.
- No Animals Were Harmed: Played in some volumes.
Disclaimer: No boars were harmed while this page was drawn. Actually we hurted a human.
- No Export for You: Only Harry Porker, Star Porks, Pigsty of the Caribbean and Hamazing Spider-Mad have been released in the USA.
- No Swastikas: On Indiana Porks's cover, the swastika on Giotto's Nazi uniform is changed to a pretzel. Inside the comic there are still swastikas.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: In Indiana Porks, Nazis disguise as Mexicans wearing sombreros and fake moustaches, still showing the swastikas on their uniforms. And their "tacos" are clearly pretzels.
- Also, earlier in the same story, Zannablù and the Crazy Pig pass through Nazi security disguising as Hitler. Both of them.
Nazi Officer: It looked like we found them, but actually they were the Furher with...ahem...another Furher.
- Running Gag:
- Shout Out: Lots of them.
- In Harry Porker, the Snape parody is called "Renato Python". This is a reference to the common joke between Italian fans about how much Alan Rickman as Snape looks like Italian singer Renato Zero
in his later years. Also, Renato Python dresses like Renato Zero in his early years as a singer. - Awater takes the "Na'vi=Giant Smurfs" gag to the extreme, calling the Neytiri parody "Na'pette", putting the classic Smurf hat on the Na'pigs and also showing Papa Na'pig, Brainy Na'pig, Hefty Na'pig and Grouchy Na'pig.
- Who Writes This Crap?: This is a second-rate comic, the characters think that too and so every cheap plot explanation is lampshaded out loud.
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