Pichenettes (Lapinot)

The Hoodoodad (Pichenettes)
Date	1996
Series	Les formidables aventures de Lapinot
Publisher	Dargaud
Creative team
Writers	Lewis Trondheim
Artists	Lewis Trondheim
Original publication
Language	French
Translation
Date	1998
Chronology
Preceded by	Blacktown, 1995
Followed by	Walter, 1996

Pichenettes is a comic strip in the series The Spiffy Adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1996 as volume 2 in the series.

An English translation, titled The Hoodoodad, was released in 1998.

This volume is often regarded by fans as one of the funniest and strongest entries in the series, and it contains several of Richard's most popular quotes.

Plot

The adventure takes place in modern France and uses the standard storyline of the series. While walking on the street, Lapinot and Richard accidentally bump into a bum who is about to commit suicide. They prevent him from doing so, despite his repeated attempts, and he eventually agrees to stop trying to kill himself as long as they agree to take his little stone which, according to him, is cursed and brings terrible luck to its bearer. Lapinot accepts, not taking the bum's warnings seriously, but most other characters around him seem to be plagued with bad luck from that moment on. Up until the end of the book, it isn't clear whether the curse is real or if the characters are merely imagining it.