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Dav Pilkey's Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild is a SUPER silly comic for 7 year olds about a dog-headed cop who gets locked up for a bank robbery he never did.
Somebody robs Frank's Bank. The footprints match Dog Man's, there's a Dog Man-shaped hole in the window, and the money turns up right next to him while he's asleep in his kennel (oops).
Five minutes into his trial the judge shouts "GUILTY" and off he goes to Dog Jail, up in the snow. The other dogs growl at him. Then the warden chains them all to a sled of dog poo and makes them drag it up a mountain.
Being half dog and half man is the real problem. The cops call him a misfit, and in jail he's too much of a man for the dogs. It's honestly a bit sad to watch!
Luckily his friends don't give up. Sarah and film star Yolay Caprese hunt for the real crook. The Chief and 80-HD the robot plan a jailbreak (the Chief thinks it's illegal, dangerous and irresponsible, then says yes).
Meanwhile, in Cat Jail, Petey is trying to be good. He manages sixteen whole minutes, then gives up and tells his kitten, Li'l Petey, that he'd be better off without him.
Li'l Petey is having none of it. He keeps visiting, helps fix Papa's giant robot bee and tells him the worst jokes ever. Nearly every punchline is diarrhoea, and Petey is NOT amused.
Those two cats are the heart of the book. Is there anything better than a kitten winning an argument with a supervillain by using his own advice against him?
It's comic strips all the way through, supposedly made by George and Harold, who are fifth graders now and so "totally mature". The pages are packed with ENORMOUS lettering and noises like SPIT-TOOIE. The Flip-E-Rama pages work on a screen (swipe to and fro and the picture moves).
This is Dog Man book six, but the recap at the start fills in everything a new reader needs. It's easy to gobble up in one go.
The toilet humour is VERY high, with lots of poo and two Hurl-E-Rama pages where Dog Man is spectacularly sick. Near the end there's a fire, an explosion and a rockfall. Petey walking out on Li'l Petey could upset a tender-hearted reader a little. It's all cartoon chaos, and there's a really sweet message about fitting in.
If this one goes down well, go back to the first Dog Man book. It's where a cop and his police dog get hurt in an explosion and end up as one very good boy.
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