Super Potato's Mega Time-Travel Adventure (Super Potato Series #3)

by Artur Laperla, Artur Laperla (Illustrator)

Overview

For Super Potato's future...he must travel to the past!
After an evil villain turned the handsome crime fighter Super Max into Super Potato, our hero got used to life as a tiny tuber. He even threw out his expensive shampoos. But when friendly scientists offer Super Potato a trip back in time, he can't resist. It's a chance to stop his transformation from ever happening!
Super Potato lands in the past, ready to change history. There's just one problem: he runs into another fiendish criminal, Archibald the Scaly. Yikes! What will Super Potato choose—living life as a human or stopping Archibald's sinister plans?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541572874
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Series:	Super Potato Series , #3
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Artur Laperla is an author and illustrator who lives in Spain. His work includes the Super Potato series and the Felix and Calcite series.

Artur Laperla is an author and illustrator who lives in Spain. His work includes the Super Potato series and the Felix and Calcite series.

Editorial Reviews

2019-05-12
Superhero stories can easily break your heart.

Batman has never found lasting love, and Bruce Banner has never been able to prevent himself from turning into the Hulk. In the third Super Potato graphic novel, the hero has a chance to go back in time and avoid the tragic circumstances that changed him into a potato in the first place. He's clearly doomed to fail, but he proves that he's not afraid of a time paradox. A group of scientists gives him access to a device called the small-time machine, teaching readers about the importance of hyphens. But he's distracted by mutant sewer reptile Archibald the Scaly and by his first ever love interest, Olivia Olson, who, in comic-book tradition, is immediately kidnapped. The artwork is as charmingly eccentric as ever. The characters look like the Rugrats, if the Rugrats had grown up to be superheroes and mad scientists. The new book doesn't add much diversity to the very white cast, but one of the scientists is a tall black woman. The jokes are slightly better than in the first two books, though, even if the humor relies a bit too much on vomit jokes. No spoilers are required. Super Potato doesn't change his destiny or get the girl. But "the girl" is snarky enough to make readers love her, too.

Superhero fans won't be surprised once, but they'll laugh many times. (Graphic humor. 7-11)

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