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Dog Man is a 2016 children's book created by Dav Pilkey, who is generally known for creating the series Captain Underpants. Dog Man was created as a spin-off series after Captain Underpants ended with its 12th entry.[1] The book's plot focuses on George and Harold's new book, Dog Man, a new hero.[2] It is the first in a series[3] of 12 books. A film adaptation is set for January 31, 2025.
Plot
In the foreword comic, continuing from the final Captain Underpants book Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, George and Harold are searching for their slightly older future selves and the "hamsterdactyl" trio Tony, Orlando, and Dawn, when they find their old comics that they created in kindergarten and become inspired to write a full book, the rest of the novel showing the book's content, being a compilation of stories rather than one full story.[4]
Chapter 1: A Hero is Born
The book begins by showing Dog Man's origin. Knight, a police officer, along with his dog, Greg, are injured by a bomb planted by Petey the evil cat. After finding Greg's body to be critically injured but his head is fine, as well as Knight's head being critically injured, but his body being fine, the doctors begin a surgery that ends up saving their lives, although after it, they are fused together, with his dog's head being placed on his body, creating Dog Man. Afterwards, Petey creates a giant vacuum cleaner, as all dogs are afraid of vacuum cleaners, and chases Dog Man to the beach. The vacuum explodes, but then Dog Man saves Petey, only for him to arrest him.
Chapter 2: Robo-Chief
Chief's day starts off badly. He gets bird poop on his hat, splashed by a car, and when he gets to police station, he trips on Dog Man, whom has chewed up Chief’s slippers, urinating on the floor, and shedded his hair on the couch. Chief is furious with Dog Man, when suddenly the Mayor enters the building. She tells Chief that Petey has escaped from jail, and is the most hated person in town. She then threatens to fire Chief and replace him with a robot. The Mayor turns out to be working for the evil Dr. Scum who is building the robot that would replace Chief. The Mayor sends a bottle of Invisible Spray to Petey to use on himself and escape from jail. As a result, the Mayor fires Chief and has the robot, Robo Chief, take his place. Dr. Scum builds a chain of stores related to robbery, carjacking, counterfeits, etc. Robo Chief orders the police not to go near those stores or they would be fired. Petey, thinking only one villain can be in town, pranks some customers by pantsing them and having them run out of the stores thinking they are haunted. The Mayor orders Robo Chief to destroy Petey, but Robo Chief accidentally destroys himself with a rocket missile through a corkscrew slide. After hearing about this in dismay, the Mayor orders Dog Man to stop Petey. Dog Man jumps into a pool and sprays all the water off of him and onto Petey, washing off the Invisible Spray and allowing Dog Man to arrest Petey. During a "Cop Awards" speech, Dog Man plays a video he recorded of the Mayor and Dr. Scum discussing their evil plans, and has the Mayor sent to jail. A new mayor replaces her and, upon Dog Man's request, gives Chief his job back.
Chapter 3: Book 'Em, Dog Man
This is a comic George and Harold made in first grade, extended and with the spelling fixed. The original comic triggered a complaint letter from their first grade teacher Ms. Construde to their mothers, talking about how they defied an assignment to write a written report to promote reading, their disobedience and insolence to teachers, and the "offensive" content in their comics.
In the comic, Petey escapes from jail by having an overweight cat named Big Jim catapult him out of the jailyard. Realizing that Dog Man gets smarter by reading books, Petey uses his new invention, the Word-B-Gone 2000, to erase words from all the books in the world. This causes everyone's IQ to reduce to nothing and become dumb, thus making it easy for Petey to steal things like a car, money, and electronics. Meanwhile, Dog Man is sent on a mission to find out who defecated in the Chief's office, which is tough since he became dumb too. Petey is starting to get irritated with this epidemic of dumbness, as he could not watch the news, his car is literally filled up with gas, he fired his butler for falling in love with a garbage bag, and even ordering a dozen donuts has become difficult. Two weeks go by, and Petey is depressed, untidy, and had never taken a bath. Dog Man senses the bad smell coming from Petey's hideout and find his secret library that has the only books left unaffected. Dog Man's intelligence has been regained and he encourages all the kids in school to read. Petey is shocked to find all his books in the school playground and tries to get them all but fails and ends up unintentionally beaten up by the kids using the playground equipment. Dog Man arrests Petey and reverses the Word-B-Gone 2000 to turn all the books and everyone back to normal. Later, the police find out that it was Dog Man who defecated in the Chief's office, and Chief chases Dog Man again.
Chapter 4: Weenie Wars - The Franks Awaken
In Cat Jail, Petey receives a bottle of Living Spray and tests it out on a hot dog that was meant for his lunch. The hot dog, now brought to life, frees Petey and asks him to be friends, but Petey rudely rejects him and walks off. Meanwhile, Chief yells at Dog Man for excitedly jumping on him and sleeping on his new couch. Just then, Dog Man and all the other dogs in town are lured into a cage by a dog whistle blown by Petey. Back in Cat Jail, the hot dog takes the Living Spray and uses it to bring to life an army of hot dogs to start a revolution in town. News reporter Sarah Hatoff asks Petey what he is going to do with the dogs he trapped, and it turns out that the cage is the Mutt-Masher 2000, set to crush and kill all the dogs in a matter of time. Chief, upon seeing the news, blames himself for being mean to Dog Man and cries. Noticing the hot dog revolution not being taken seriously, the hot dog leader brings to life the mascot of Philly's Cheesesteak, Philly. The hot dog leader once again orders his army to attack, but Sarah finds them cute, infuriating him. Dog Man gets an idea to throw a bone at Philly who gets enraged and breaks open the cage, setting all the dogs free. Philly picks up Dog Man who then eats and kills the hot dog leader. The Living Spray bottle falls into the fire, and since the contents are flammable, it explodes, breaking Philly apart and killing him, and sending Petey and Dog Man flying, each in different directions. All the dogs that are freed eat alive the hot dogs. Petey lands back into Cat Jail where he is served another hot dog and bursts into tears. Dog Man lands in the cop station and accidentally crushes Chief's couch, but instead of yelling at him, Chief excitedly jumps on him, glad that Dog Man is okay.
The final page is a refocus form Harold took in first grade rejected by Ms. Construde.
Film adaptation
On December 9, 2020, DreamWorks Animation announced that a feature film adaptation of the books is currently in the works by director Peter Hastings, the showrunner for The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, and produced by Karen Foster.
The movie is scheduled for release on January 31, 2025.[5]
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