SUPER TURBO SAVES THE DAY!

A lovable hamster moonlights as a superhero.

Once the students depart Sunnyview Elementary, Turbo, the official pet hamster of Classroom C, leaves his palace (don’t call it a cage!) to become his evil-thwarting, sunshine-yellow-cape–clad alter ego, Super Turbo. Wandering the corridors on a snow day, Super Turbo discovers that he’s not the only powerful pet at Sunnyview; he soon befriends Great Gecko, Wonder Pig (a guinea pig), the Green Winger (a parakeet), Professor Turtle, Boss Bunny, and Fantastic Fish. The menagerie forms the Superpet Superhero League just in time to face off against Whiskerface, a megalomaniacal mouse (with delusions of rat grandeur) planning to take over the school with his rodent army, the Rat Pack. Can Super Turbo and his friends save their beloved school? Originally published in 2016 as a black-and-white graphic-novel hybrid, this new edition features an entire revamp from cover to cover, transitioning its prose sequences to comic panels, changing its illustrator, and adding a zippy full-color palette to its art. Powers (previously writing under the pseudonym Lee Kirby) has reworked his storytelling, condensing it to fit Costanza’s tidy, simply rendered panels but otherwise leaving the general plot points intact. Bank on this wisely wrought update to have a wide appeal to fans of Ben Clanton’s Narwhal and Jelly or Andy Runton’s Owly series. Sequel Super Turbo vs. the Flying Ninja Squirrels publishes simultaneously.

Class-pet capers with a sassy new style.