Dog Man
A tale of two kitties /
Readers rate it 3.7 (40 on Hardcover)
240 pages · Released 2016 · Graphix
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Dog Man is a wildly popular, silly graphic novel where a crime-fighting superhero (part dog, part cop) battles a villainous cat. The humor is built on toilet jokes, wordplay, and absurdist comedy typical of Pilkey's style, with cartoon-style action that lacks real stakes or consequences. The story celebrates friendship, redemption, and good humor while gently poking fun at authority figures, making it appropriate for early elementary readers and up.
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George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat. George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.
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- Not Diverse Characters
- Humor
- Juvenile Fiction
- Graphic Novels
- Comics
- Police
- Spanish
- fxl
- Fantasy
- Dogs
- Young Adult
- Children's fiction
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ISBN 9780545581608 · Graphix