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Captain Underpants
3 Reviews
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Captain Underpants series.
Color by Jose Garibaldi. The fourth book in the wildly popular series is "now in full color." Provoked by class cut-ups George and Harold, Professor Poopypants goes mad, inhabits the shell of a giant robot, and shrinks down the school. While this installment's humor seems a little desperate, the hues selected for this colorized edition are admirably restrained. Fun facts are appended.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.
(3)
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Captain Underpants series.
Color by Jose Garibaldi. Here's the second book in the wildly popular series that's "now in full color." George and Harold, in detention after crashing the "Invention Convention," create a new comic that comes alive (complete with talking toilets). The hues selected for this colorized version are admirably restrained (though hardly an inch of blank space remains). Fun facts are appended.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz
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1-3
Captain Underpants series.
This edition of book one in the series now features watercolor blues, greens, yellows, purples, and reds. For the most part, the color doesn't compete for attention with the text. That said, hardly an inch of blank space remains, especially in the comics that George and Harold draw. The effect is now more splashy Sunday comics than sketchy drawn-by-kids serial.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2013
3 reviews
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