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305 pp.
| Little/Patterson |
May, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-316-31869-3$13.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-316-31872-3
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4-6
Despite coming from a long line of famous supervillains, twelve-year-old Victor is "not the good kind of bad kid. [He's] the bad kind of good kid." To avoid total familial shame, Victor's parents apprentice him to a (disgraced) supervillain called The Smear. Told with a mix of text and comic strips, this new series blends humor with sly cynicism toward the superhero genre.