Batpig: Go Pig or Go Home
Rob Harrell
Walker Books

Porcine superhero, Gary, is back with two more stories of skylarking presented in graphic novel format.
The first, Careful What You Wish For, sees Gary getting his snout in a twist at the prospect of the history and biology tests the following day. Nevertheless, rather than staying at home and studying that night, he assumes his Batpig alter ego and heads out into the city to fight crime.

As a reward for preventing a robbery at the Weird Old Magic Shop, the owner gives Batpig a pouch containing a magical learning potion. Back at home Gary decides how to word his spell command and then goes off to sleep.

It will come as no surprise when I say that the spell does not go to plan. The following morning he wakes to find Sharkraham, come to assist with the tests, which it does. Whether or not this is cheating is a debatable question. Twenty four hours later Gary has something far, far worse than a couple of tests to worry about;

something in the form of a destructive squown or evil squid clown. It would appear from the beastie that our porcine pal has a vital lesson to learn. Will Gary ever work out what that is and if so, will he finally hold his trotter up and admit that doing well in tests by devious means is wrong?

In the second episode, Camp Danger, Gary (sans his suit), along with buddies Brook and Carl, is off to sleep-away Camp Moldy Snout.

Before long Carl has made some new friends, then too does Brook; this makes Gary feel rather excluded. But then after some alarming incidents in and around the lake including the emergence of a very frightening monster, Gary decides he must step in. even if it results in him revealing his secret identity to the other campers.

This is bad enough but it leads to his arch enemy and self-dubbed greatest ever supervillain, The Butcher, appearing on the scene and she means big trouble.

High energy humour at the heart of which is friendship. Fans of Gary et al will devour this eagerly.