Is this the end? Well, no…the series will stagger on through at least one more scheduled sequel. Pilkey tucks both topical jokes and bathroom humor into the cartoon art, and ups the narrative’s lexical ante with terms like “pharmaceuticals” and “theatrical flair.” Unfortunately, the bullies’ sad fates force Krupp to resign, so he’s not around to save the Earth from being destroyed later on by Talking Toilets and other invaders… George and Harold link up in kindergarten to reduce a quartet of vicious bullies to giggling insanity with a relentless series of pranks involving shaving cream, spiders, effeminate spoof text messages and friendship bracelets. Cut to five years previous, in a prequel to the whole series. The villain sets off after George and Harold, who are in juvie (“not much different from our old school…except that they have library books here.”). There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Readers will clamor for the party’s next dice-y adventure. Humans Zelli and Allidora have black curls and dark skin Bauble uses they/them pronouns. There’s enough humor that even those new to tabletop gaming will find plenty to chuckle at. The themes of belonging and purpose are spelled out, but in the setting it works. The monstrous party works together to discover the fate of the students and to find Zelli’s birth mother. Accompanying her are fellow misfits: a thoughtful vegetarian owlbear named Hugo Bauble, a book-smart mimic who prefers taking a book form to fighting and enthusiastic kobold Snabla, who wishes he were scarier than he is. When a group of top students goes missing at a nearby village where a Steelstrike’s been spotted, Zelli decides to take a chance to find the students-and her birth family. When Zelli notices that the illustration of heroic adventurer Allidora Steelstrike is the spitting image of Zelli herself, she realizes she’s actually the daughter of the dungeon dwellers’ mortal enemies. That’s not the biggest way she doesn’t fit in, though: The horns and tail she wears are fake she’s secretly a human who was adopted by her minotaur mothers (one a Dungeon Academy teacher). A series opener about students at the school that trains monsters for Dungeons & Dragons.Įven though the monsters of Dungeon Academy are penalized for acts of niceness, Zelli still stands up for bullied beings.
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