Adventure

Too Many Butts!!

That was a key phrase throughout this installment and what caused a few of my laugh out loud moments. Turns out that furious little furball was an alien with mass butts that he uses as hands in disguise. So his plan is the same. Try and take over the world. What's more horrifying, a psychotic little guinea pig planning world domination? One multi-butt alien planning world domination? Or One multi-butt alien planning world domination with an entire legion of multi-butt aliens to assist him? You decide.

But one thing is for sure, reading this series is sure to illicit laughs and leave you wanting to pick up another one! ( )

review at downthehobbitholeblog.com ( )

The introduction to the sixth installment in this series, is a very positive news report about the usual bad guys now called the good guys club. The gang of a wolf, snake, shark, piranha, and legs the spider has convinced Tiffany Fluffit, news reporter for 6 news, they are good guys. The only things is that the bad guys are nowhere to be found on earth. Our group of heroes is somewhere in space for their latest adventure. Chapter one is called Deep Space, Deep poop because who else is in space with the Bad guys? Marmalade, the evil mad scientist from the previous books turns out to be an evil alien. The humor stays on the same level when piranha is taken by not one but two alien butts. Teamwork is important, no bad guy is left behind, but humor is the main topic in this graphic novel that will be a sure hit with the younger transitional readers in the elementary school crowd. It can be read as a stand alone. Black and white illustrations of this popular Australian author and illustrator, will be difficult to keep on the shelves. The reviewer had a paperback copy.
2nd - 4th grade
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The Bad Guys crew - Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark, and Legs the tarantula - return in this sixth beginning chapter-book/graphic-novel devoted to their hilarious (mis)adventures. Squaring off against the invading alien once known as Dr. Marmalade, our heroes learn just what Mr. Snake - whose constant backsliding into villainy has been a theme in previous books - is made of, as he comes riding to the rescue. Despite Mr. Snake's efforts, the companions must flee in an escape pod from KDJFLOERHGCOINWERUHCGLEIRWFHEKLWJFHXALHW (the alien) at the end, and find themselves most unexpectedly transported back to the time of the dinosaurs. What will they do now...?

I can see, after finishing The Bad Guys in Alien Vs. Bad Guys, that Australian author/artist Aaron Blabey still has a few surprise endings up his sleeve, and am a little sad that, having raced through the first six installments of the series in a few days, I will now have to wait some months for the seventh volume, The Bad Guys in Do-You-Think-He-Saurus? I had the pleasure of meeting Blabey today, at an event at work, and he is every bit as entertaining in person as he is on the page. Apparently there are twenty volumes planned for The Bad Guys series, so there is still plenty of fun ahead! I enjoyed this one - I particularly liked the fact that Mr. Shark was able to pronounce the alien's name - and look forward to the publication of more about these madcap characters and their whacky adventures. Recommended to anyone who has read and enjoyed the first five books about these would-be-good Bad Guys. ( )