Fantastica

By Victorio Velasquez

The world of Fantastica is an enchanted magical land with politically social upheaval and racial divide. Two close friends, Shit and Dope, both of whom are from different origins and backgrounds, break the law of the land for partaking in the weeklong Pigshit festival. This special festival held annually for the peaceful common people and forest beasts that reside outside of the great city is disrupted by a military dispatch of cavalry troops dealing justice in the name of the cat emperor/demigod deity who has always ruled his provincial lands with an oppressive iron paw. This sets off the intricate chain of events that leads to the two friends being separated, and to individually embark on different paths of destiny. One is captured and taken into custody to be tried in a royal court of law. When the verdict is a life of servitude as a slave within the emperor's palace, he eventually escapes with the help of a talking rat, and then risks being recaptured because of an unlikely newfound infatuation. The other goes on the clich of the QUEST with some other misfit friends to gather an army from the outlying unruled territories to take on the emperor's military might & eternal reign. But first, he has to climb this massive mountain full of peril to attain a mysterious ancient power within a magically air suspended floating temple. This is FANTASTICA, the dark new age parody/satire/spoof series of the fiction/fantasy genre like no other before or after. Along with the comedic aspect in this first volume, there is also a sufficient amount of violence, sexually related themes, drug and alcohol abuse from some characters with manically depressive problems, social class and ethnic racism, and other touchy political themes that I reflect from what I see in modern American culture. And the dialogue reads like bad acting in 70s/80s era B movies, Old English dubbed Kung Fu flicks, and dubbed Japanime from the 80's and 90's. Just think LOTR without elves and dwarves with more sex and violence along with the aforementioned references to political, social, and racial themes. When someone reads this, I hope that if they are not entertained or amused in some shape or form, he/she at least thinks that its still different from any other parody/satire/spoof of any genre that they have ever read before.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467905739
• ISBN13: 9781467905732
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"