Dog Man

Dog Man is a comedic graphic novel series by American cartoonist Dav Pilkey (author of the Captain Underpants books) published by Scholastic Corporation that focuses on a part-dog, part-man police officer.[1] The book series includes eight books, the first released in 2016 and the latest in 2019.[2] There are 2 books yet to be released, making for a total of 10 books in the series. The books are very popular in Australia and America. There are two upcoming books in the series, one coming out on September 1, 2020, and the other on March 23, 2021.

Dog Man
AuthorDav Pilkey
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScholastic Corporation
PublishedAugust 30, 2016 – present
No. of books10 (8 released, 2 to be released)

Graphic novels

Dog Man

Dog Man is the eponymous first book in the series, released on August 30, 2016. Unlike other books by Dav Pilkey, it contains four separate stories instead of one whole story. 1 is A Hero is Unleashed, 2 is the Robo Chief, 3 is a remaster of Book 'em' Dog Man, and 4 is Weenie Wars: The Franks Awaken.

The behind the scenes foreword is a recap of the entire Captain Underpants series, from when George and Harold first met to their creation of Captain Underpants and the misadventures that follow, leading up to the point where everything is back to normal. George and Harold wake up to find that their doubles from the slight future, along with Tony, Orlando, and Dawn, are gone. They search in their tree house, but find some of their old Dog Man comics and have a good laugh. Harold feels that he and George should make another Captain Underpants comic book, but George decides that he and Harold should scrap the Captain Underpants comics and do a comic book featuring Dog Man instead, hence this book.

One day, a cop named Officer Knight and his police dog Greg got seriously injured in an explosion by a bomb assembled by Petey, The body of the dog became unable to function, along with Knight's head. So the doctors did surgery to Greg and put his head into Knight's body, causing him to turn into Dog Man. He caught the Mayor, but forgot Dr. Scrum, the real mastermind. He was missing til the 7th book, For Whom The Ball Rolls. He remastered "Book 'em' Dog Man, and defeated the hotdogs and Philly the evil taco, but broke Chief's new couch.

Dog Man: Unleashed

Dog Man: Unleashed is the second book in the series, released on January 3, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man and a battle with Flat Petey and Flippy, a psychokinetic butterfly fish that eats people.

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties is the third book in the series, released on August 29, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man dealing with Petey's clone(son), Lil' Petey, and Supa Mecha-Flippy. Flippy got squished by Dog Man, then, at the Supa Awesome Science Center Over There, whose broken bones became replaced by bionics, and then got brought back to live with Living Spray gas.

Dog Man and Cat Kid

Dog Man and Cat Kid is the fourth book in the series, released on December 26, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man saving Yolay Capresse with help from Lil' Petey. Thus, Dog Man and Li'l Petey become super-heroes. Dog Man is Bark Knight(referencing to Batman), and Lil' Petey as Cat Kid.

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas is the fifth book in the series, released on August 28, 2018. It revolves around Dog Man and his new SUPA BUDDIES superhero team facing Piggy, Crunky, and Bub, known as the Fleas: the Fuzzy Little Evil Animal Squad.

Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild

Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild is the sixth book in the series, released on December 24, 2018. It revolves around Dog Man being framed by the Fleas. It was released with positive reviews.

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls is the seventh book in the series, released on August 13, 2019. It revolves around Dog Man's former obsession, balls, becoming his greatest fear, Dr. Scum behind this, and Petey reuniting with his father, who's still evil. It releases followed by positive reviews

Dog Man: Fetch-22

Dog Man: Fetch-22 is the eighth and most recent book in the series, released on December 10, 2019. It revolves around Dog Man facing the Fair Fairy, their tree, Barky McTreeface, & 22 supa-angry psychokinetic tadpoles (the Fair Fairy's children who controlled Barky with their minds), not to mention Li'l Petey's greedy grampa.

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment is the ninth book in the series, which will be released on September 1, 2020.[3]

Dog Man #10

The tenth book in the Dog Man series will be released on March 23, 2021, due to COVID-19 and the release of Dav Pilkey's new book, The Cat Kid Comic Club. Not much is known yet except that during a speech Day Pilkey said that Piggy wold return.[4]

Characters
  • Dog Man - The remains of Greg and Officer Knight after an explosion leaves them without any functioning body parts. He retains his dog senses, but not his body, He has a tendency to jump onto Chief or make a huge mess. Dog man cannot speak in English. In "Dog Man and Cat Kid," "Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas," "Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild," "Dog Man: For whom the Ball Rolls," and "Dog Man: Fetch-22," he assumes the superhero moniker "The Bark Knight," which is a play on words of Batman's nickname "The Dark Knight." He also has a habit of rolling on dead fish.
    • Officer Knight - A former cop who was seriously injured from a bomb explosion. He ends up dying to make Dog Man. His head just dies and then they use his body to make Dog Man.
    • Greg - The dog buddy of Knight who dies so they could make Dog Man. Greg's body was dead and they used his head to make Dog Man.
  • Petey - The main antagonist of the series. He is an evil cat that tries to take over the world but ends up failing all the time. He becomes a Good Guy after released from Cat Jail, and raising his clone, Lil Petey, but still "hates" Dog Man.
    • Flat Petey - The paper version of Petey, who is the main villain of book 2. He ends up getting cut up by a magic witch doctor that he controls(Or so we thought)...
    • Lil' Petey - The clone of Petey, created when Petey inserted a DNA sample to make a doppelganger of himself for a butler. He is one of 7 protagonists.

grampa*' - The Greedy father of Petey. One of the antagonists of the series. In For Whom The Ball Rolls, he was first introduced into the series when Lil’ Petey tracks him down after Petey talks about how his father abandoned him. He insults Petey and steals all of Petey's stuff after the group fights Dr. Scum. He was then arrested for stealing. He makes another appearance in Fetch-22 where he puts both Petey and Lil’ Petey to sleep when they visited via sleeping gas. He disguises himself as Petey and takes Lil’ Petey. He then teams with the Fair Fairy but gets arrested. He will be one of the main villains in Grime and Punishment.

  • Zuzu - A poodle owned by Sarah Hatoff, World's Greatest Reporter, who forms an alliance of Dog Man.
  • Sarah Hatoff - A reporter who helps Dog Man save the world. She bears a resemblance to Savannah Guthrie. In "Dog Man and Cat kid" she assumes the superhero moniker "Purse Lady."
  • Chief - The chief of the local police station, who is a protagonist, but is described as grumpy. He dislikes it when Dog Man jumps on him. In "Dog Man and Cat kid he assumes the superhero moniker "Chief Man." For an unknown reason, Chief's real name is Chief.
  • 80-HD - A robot built by Petey, which is then used by Lil' Petey as a friend. 80-HD shares his name with a character in Star Wars called 80-HD and named after what kids suffer as to ADHD. So also, his name is a homonym of ADHD, the disorder Dav Pilkey suffered from as a child. 80-HD's full name given by Petey is 80 Hegxagon-Droidformigon.
  • Big Jim/Commander Cupcake- A former fellow cellmate of Petey's that turns into a hero, but never does any real work. He is obese compared to other cats. In Dog Man #9, he puts on a motor brain helmet which makes him muscular but still obese. He now is called Snug.
  • Yolay Caprese - An actress who assists the team. She appears in books 4 and 6. She bears a resemblance to Naomi Watts.
  • Fair Fairy - Main antagonist of Dog Man: Fetch-22, a short elderly fairy who tries to help children share fair nicely in her eponymous TV show until she was fired due to her rude temper of "YOU GET NOTHING! YOU GET NOTHING! NOW IT'S FAIR!!!" Since then, she became vengeful, evil, and bitter.
  • Piggy - A villain who shares a past with Petey and who is the sole leader of the FLEAS, an acronym for the Fuzzy Little Evil Animal Squad. But disappeared in Dog Man Fetch-22.
  • Crunky - One of Piggy's two henchmen. He is an anthropomorphic gorilla and a childhood friend of Petey's. He was an animal who was with Petey in the Critter Scouts. But disappeared in Dog Man Fetch-22.
  • Bub - Another one of Piggy's two henchmen. Another childhood friend of Petey's and an animal who was with Petey in the Critter Scouts. He is an anthropomorphic crocodile. But disappeared in Dog Man Fetch-22.
  • Philly - A giant taco used as a gyro by an army of hot dogs in Dog Man. And only in dog man.
  • Supa Mecha-Philly - This version of Philly is used as a prop for the Dog Man movie but is later turned into a powerful threat in Dog Man and Cat Kid. And only in Dog man and Cat kid.
  • Claymation Philly - This third version of Philly is used as a villain for the Dog Man movie when it finally makes it to theatres but is brought to life due to living spray that Piggy uses on the theatre screen.
  • Sam Hamilton - An easily frustrated movie director who appears in two Dog Man books.
  • Dog Jail Warden - Not much is known about this character but he is relentlessly evil.
  • Cat Jail Warden - This warden is featured in many of the books serving as a side character.
  • Fish Jail Warden - This warden is only featured in one of the books escorting Flippy to sign his Jail contracts
  • Flippy - The butterflyfish of evil, who changes in Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties" and "Dog Man: Fetch-22. He has psychokinetic abilities, and became part machine in the third book, because of Dog Man’s bad habit of rolling around on dead fish.
  • Milly - A red-haired female cop. She appears as an unnamed side character in "Dog Man Unleashed." In "Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas," she is named and is Chief's partner. She has been seen since in cameos, but has not been mentioned by name.
  • Barky McTreeface - The evil tree in Dog Man: Fetch 22. He walked and destroyed buildings. Much to the Fair Fairy's annoyance, Downward Dog named him, and everyone else, except the Fair Fairy, agreed. The Barky McTreeface song's tune is the same as the one from Frosty the Snowman.
  • Molly - One of the 22 Tadpoles of Dog Man: Fetch 22. She is the only one who remembered the events of the book and the first one to become good.
  • Mayor - Theirs 2. 1. Mayor S., partner of Dr. Scum, Arrested in book 1, and 2. The replacement, appearing in books 1 and 2.
  • Dr. Scum - An evil scientist who created Robo Chief, the replacement of Chief. He appeared in 2 books. In Dog Man: For Whom The Ball Rolls he ever appeared in, people thought he was a new villain.
  • Drippys Dounuts Lady - A pink lady appearing in many dog man books. Cannery Grow Lady, Drippys Dounuts Lady, and has the role of putting down a sign in book six.
  • George Beard (creator) - The protagonist of Captain Underpants and writer of the Dog Man comics.
  • Harold Hutchins (creator) - The protagonist of Captain Underpants and illustrator of the Dog Man comics.

References
  1. "DOG MAN". pilkey.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  2. "All the Dog Man Books in Order | Toppsta". toppsta.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  3. Scholastic. "Scholastic Announces Title Of New Book In The Global Bestselling Dog Man Series By Award-Winning Author And Illustrator Dav Pilkey". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  4. "SCHOLASTIC TO LAUNCH "CAT KID COMIC CLUB" AN ALL-NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR DAV PILKEY"".
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