The O.D.D. Squad: Attack of Aunty Enchanty
Stuart Heritage and Vincent Batignole
Puffin Books

Like the first title in the series, this sequel is fast, funny – often ridiculous and highly illustrated.. In case you’ve not read Rise of Invisidog, the setting is Justice City and the O.D.D squad comprises a team of more than a tad inept crime-fighters – superhero duckling Quack Attack, Detective Octopus and Invisidog (the team’s newest member). A weird threesome indeed and when it comes to apprehending criminals, they do a pretty decent job, as they did at the start of this book when they succeeded in getting The Incredible Slowman safely in handcuffs.

However on returning to headquarters they discover that the place had been broken into and a note left by one Aunty Enchanty claiming to have kidnapped their pal Graham the jellyfish. Now this particular villain, unlike the Incredible Slowman, far from being a bungling idiot; is reputedly an all-powerful sorceress who is intent on carrying out an evil plan to destroy Justice City.
The next thing the team know, one of their number – Detective Octopus – is missing; she’s currently in the clutches of Aunty Enchanty who has designs on the captive’s brain. Unbeknown to the captor however, octopuses actually have nine brains. In order to translate the hieroglyphics which would give her unlimited powers the one needed is that which the octopus least wants her to have. The situation gets progressively worse with Detective Octopus having to join the missing jellyfish in an underwater lagoon

closely guarded by the arch evil one, and Quack Attack now having an alter ego, Quacksquatch, a giant were-duck. How on earth or underwater, will this sorry saga end? Can the three detectives get back together and even bring Aunty Enchanty to justice?

Another zany, metafictive romp wherein chapters end on cliffhangers, frequently with a comment from author, Stuart. Coffee anyone?