Venerdì 12 ("Friday the 12th," a spoof of Friday the 13th) is a comic strip series created by Italian author Leo Ortolani first published in 1996 as a series in the comic magazine L'isola che non c'è and continued on the Rat-Man Collection, where it was also completed.
It tells the story of Aldo, a man who becomes a hideous monster after being dumped by his girlfriend Bedelia and his evil servant Giuda.
He tries many approaches, failing miserably, until Bedelia accepts his court in order to win a bet.
So Aldo, full of joy, decides to buy her, as a birthday gift, a music box.
It's here that he meets Giuda, an extravagant runt who is searching for a master and accepts to become Aldo's evil servant.