Lil’ Petey is conflicted about leaving his found family to live with his father/clone Petey, but Petey insists, though he does quickly compromise by saying that he will allow Lil’ Petey to spend weekends with his found family if he can have weekdays. Petey comes to claim his son/clone Lil’ Petey from Dog Man and 80-HD, who have been parenting Lil’ Petey during Petey’s incarceration. Petey’s heroic deeds in the previous novel earn him a pardon from the mayor at the beginning of For Whom the Ball Rolls. Dog Man continues to protect the city from evil, which seems to come primarily in the form of other even more anthropomorphized animals, because Dog Man himself doesn’t talk.Īmong his foes is Petey, a cat inventor, and Piggy, an evil mastermind who was shrunk with his henchmen to the size of a flea prior to the start of For Whom the Ball Rolls. In sum, a police dog’s head is surgically attached to a policeman’s body when the two are in a horrific accident (a bit of a creepy premise, but okay). Lucky for me, the 7 th book at least begins with a recap of the story thus far. Then I was asked to throw a release party for the 8 th novel in the Dog Man series, and I thought I had better at least introduce myself to the characters and the story. I never had any interest in Dog Man either as an adult and a bookseller despite their popularity among the children. I missed the Captain Underpants books when they were coming out during my elementary school years I didn’t have any interest.
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