The appearance of this book is also anarchic, drawn to look like it was made by children, with wonky panels, shaky and basic drawings, and lots of mis-spelled and crossed-out words. This is an actual baby called Billy who gains super powers after accidentally being dropped into a cup of ‘Super Juice’ by the doctor who delivers him at birth.Īs you might expect, Dav Pilkey makes extensive use of the connection between babies and diapers to create a villain from a piece of baby poop that gains sentience and grows to giant radioactive size, and the plot that revolves around toilet humour escalates hilariously. So they invent a new superhero to represent the concept of being a good citizen: Super Diaper Baby. After they make a mess in the school gym, he assigns them to write a 100-page essay on good citizenship, with instructions that they can under no circumstances write one of their offensive Captain Underpants comics. George and Harold are two boys who are always in trouble with their school principal Mr. Instead it’s credited as “the first graphic novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, creators of Captain Underpants”. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby was the first children’s graphic novel spin-off derived from Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series, but unlike the second spin-off title Dog Man, Pilkey’s name doesn’t appear on the cover of this book.
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