After the gang is exposed and arrested, Wolf persuades Marmalade to reform them, planning to take advantage of the pretense to try to steal the award again. During the heist, Wolf takes some free time to pickpocket various people but inadvertently helps an old woman he intended to pickpocket as well and is praised for the good deed, leading to Wolf finding himself affected by his wrongdoings and Marmalade's speech about goodness. After being insulted by Governor Diane Foxington on-air, they attempt to steal the Golden Dolphin award from guinea pig philanthropist Professor Rupert Marmalade IV. Wolf and known for their brazen thefts while eluding the authorities. They might be kids’ books, but this adult certainly enjoyed them.In Los Angeles, California, in a world of humans and anthropomorphic animals co-existing, the Bad Guys are a gang of notorious criminal animals led by the cool-headed Mr. As Aaron had said during his event, he wrote these to be fun, particularly to save his two kids from having to read things that bored them to literal tears. But being middle-grade graphic novels should not detract anyone from reading this. If you have a kid who says that everything they read is boring, show them this series. Particularly from boys (I laughed a bunch too), but also there were plenty of girls at the signing who love the stories too. Piranha constantly being called out for being out of water while refusing to address exactly how they are surviving out of water, Aaron Blabey knows how to get a laugh. From the gratuitous fart and poop jokes, weird disguises, amusing violence (they keep trying to eat each other), to the more subtle joke of Mr. Wolf – the others are just going along with it). Tired of being bad guys, they try their hands at doing good deeds in order to change their reputation (really it’s Mr. The series follows 5 characters that as the story asserts, have a natural reputation for being bad guys: the big bad wolf, a shark, a snake, a piranha, and starting in book 2, a tarantula. After plowing through the 6 books out now, I can safely say that these books would have easily been my favorite as an elementary school boy.

These have been my son’s favorite series since he discovered “The Bad Guys” book 1, and for good reason.

Note: This review is for 6 books in the middle grade graphic novels.įrom my next to last post, one can figure out that seeing the writer at an event sparked my interest in reading these books for myself rather than catching the occasional scene as my son reads the book or is being read to (he’s read it and been read to multiple times).

The bad guys book list