![]() Adults may roll their eyes here and there, but youngsters will eat this up just as quickly as they devoured every other Underpants episode. The humor is never gross or over-the-top, just loud and innocuous. Holding all this nonsense together is the author’s good-natured sense of harmless fun. The epic is filled to the brim with sight gags, toilet humor, flip-o-ramas and anarchic glee. The Captain Underpants saga maintains its charm even into this, the 11th volume. When the good Captain shows up to save the day, he brings with him dynamic action and wordplay that meet the series’ standards. The creative chums fool around with time travel and several wacky inventions before coming upon the evil Turbo Toilet 2000, making its return for vengeance after sitting out a few of the previous books. His school-age companions, George and Harold, maintain most of the spotlight. The famous superhero returns to fight another villain with all the trademark wit and humor the series is known for.ĭespite the title, Captain Underpants is bizarrely absent from most of this adventure. ![]() ![]() Equipped with a genuinely juvenile sense of humor (but a clear sense of right and wrong, too), plus a serious addiction to exclamation points, this engagingly bright, complex fifth-grade sleuth will sweep readers into his newest jet-propelled adventure. ![]() So how to unmask the vandal, without revealing his own secret “Shredderman” identity? Like a younger Sammy Keyes, Nolan springs into action, “blasting” through doorways, “zooming” down streets, and working on a complicated plan to post a video of the baddie in action-all while springing through several running subplots, both at home and at school. Someone’s painting silly faces all over town, and Nolan, thanks to some sharp observation and a conveniently overheard conversation, suspects that Bubba Bixby, the previous episode’s bully-de-jour, knows who. Self-styled “cyber-superhero” Nolan Byrd once again wields digital camera and Web site in defense of truth, justice, and just deserts for bullies. ![]()
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