Watch out for Dav Pilkey's comic Dog Man

Dog Man, with its wacky humour and glorious misspellings, is exactly the kind of book (Scholastic India) that children would cook up with their imagination. And that's precisely what will make it so relatable to them.

The author-illustrator behind the comic is Dav Pilkey, who is best known for his children's novel series Captain Underpants. And while the two stories are not connected in any way, they have one thing in common - both are drawn from the perspective of two fictional school kids (and BFFs), George Beard and Harold Hutchins.

Like all other superheroes, supercop Dog Man is also given an 'intriguing' origin story involving an accident and a life-changing - and slightly macabre - surgery.

The rest of the comic shows us how this canine cop, who is essentially a smart dog's head on a strong cop's body, saves the day while also repeatedly ruining the police chief's couch (RIP couch).

Obviously, when the hero is a dog, it is natural to expect an evil cat for him to catch. Meet Petey, who is constantly scheming against, well, pretty much everyone. Sometimes, unintentionally, he ends up helping Dog Man with his job, which makes you warm up to him. Petey isn't the only villain in the book, though. To make things more exciting, there's also a mayor with a plan of world domination, and a metal robocop controlled by her. In the last chapter, you also meet some sentient wieners (we mean the sausages, not the other thing).

While most of the jokes in the book try to be tasteful, one of the chapters does have some potty humour to be dealt with. However, you're given fair warning before you can dive into it.

That said, the humour is nothing a kid can't deal with, or even enjoy (note to parents: let them be). We also enjoyed a few jokes that no kid would ever get. For instance, in the part where Petey brings Philly, the cheesesteak mascot to life, the chef yells out the window, "Philly, don't be a gyro! Don't be a fool with your life!"