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The Scarlet Shedder

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Notre superhéros canin est de retour dans Super Chien : N° 12 - La bête écarlate, un nouveau tome hilarant et plein de suspense de la série de bandes dessinées numéro 1 à l'échelle mondiale, écrite par l'auteur-illustrateur Dav Pilkey!

Pouah! Super Chien s'est fait asperger par une mouffette! Après avoir été plongé dans du jus de tomate, il se débarrasse de la puanteur... mais la couleur rouge écarlate demeure. Désormais exilé, ce superhéros au caractère bien trempé doit se battre pour sauver les citoyens qui l'ont rejeté! La fin justifiera-t-elle les moyens pour Pistache, qui se retrouve à contrecœur dans une vie de délinquance afin d'aider Super Chien? Et qui se manifestera lorsqu'un nouveau méchant inédit libérera une armée de robots dotés d'intelligence artificielle?

Our canine superhero returns in Super Chien : N° 12 - La bête écarlate, the suspenseful and hilarious twelfth graphic novel in the #1 worldwide bestselling series by award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey!

P.U.! Super Chien got sprayed by a skunk! After being dunked in tomato juice, the stink is gone but the scarlet red color remains. Now exiled, this spunky superhero must struggle to save the citizens who shunned him! Will the ends justify the means for Petey, who's reluctantly pulled back into a life of crime in order to help Super Chien? And who will step forward when an all-new, never-before-seen villain unleashes an army of A.I. robots?

Original title: Dog Man #12: The Scarlet Shedder

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      May 1, 2024
      Dog Man takes on AI in his latest adventure. Guess who wins. Since AI is built on predictive models, it hasn't got a chance in the Pilkeyverse. The story gleefully whipsaws readers from Chief and Nurse Lady's nuptials (not an eye will be dry after Li'l Petey and Molly's rendition of the traditional wedding theme) to Dog Man's encounter with a skunk (his subsequent tomato-juice bath turns him red, leading to his new Supa Buddy incarnation as the Scarlet Shedder) to Dog Man's imprisonment for the crime of "moral turpitude" to Dr. Scum's evil plot to "crush the world" with an army of AI robots to Petey's poignant flashbacks to his childhood experience with homelessness. Add in some truly inspired Flip-O-Rama sequences and many terrible jokes, and it's clear that Pilkey's in top form here. In between gales of helpless laughter, readers will engage with serious themes. The author leverages the silliness to explore the algorithm's dark side with the AI robots' plot to "distract, divide, [and] dominate" humanity, using stratagems readers may well recognize from real life. Hilariously, the robots' dialogue is rendered in a pixelated typeface straight from 1980s computing, undermining their boasts that they're "SMARTER... / ...FASTER... / ...and STRONGER than" humans. A concluding page of thoughtful notes provides some additional context (and defines turpitude). Human characters are racially diverse; Dr. Scum is a sickly green. Wise foolishness from the master. (dramatis personae) (Graphic adventure. 8-12)

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