Review by Kirkus Book Review
Blame Spider-Man. When Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, he developed the spider's most notable abilities, like the ability to walk on ceilings. This graphic novel follows the same model, but the dogs in the story develop even less-glamorous abilities after a spaceship crashes in their neighborhood. They develop the powers of, well, dogs. They can shed super amounts of hair and spurt super drool. The jokes are just as silly. Many of them simply repeat the same lines over and over again. Great Dane keeps shouting, "There's a spaceship in our backyard!" and when Sheepdog asks where it came from, Great Dane says, "Space, I'm guessing. 'Cause of the name. Spaceship." Those sequences require patience, but some of the jokes are so dopey they're clever. A horde of evil kittens is distracted by a gigantic laser pointer, and a mecha-chicken is adorably random. But the most appealing feature may be the characters' expressions. When a kitten uses Sheepdog as a stepstool, the dog's befuddlement is priceless. The artwork is made up of such simple, open shapes that it looks like a coloring book--or it would if Goldman hadn't filled it in with bold, eye-catching blocks of color. The few humans in the story are diverse. When the jokes work, these hounds are almost as ridiculous as the greatest superheroes. (Graphic humor. 7-10) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
