The Adventures of Captain Underpants

George and Harold are super fun best friends who draw comics about Captain Underpants, a silly superhero who fights bad guys in his underwear. They use a magic ring to turn their grumpy school principal into the real Captain Underpants, and he has to stop a mad scientist named Professor Poopypants who shrinks everyone tiny with his shrink gun and attacks with a giant robot. With wedgies, glue, and flips in the book you do yourself, they beat the bad guy and have the biggest laughs ever!

In 'The Adventures of Captain Underpants,' Dav Pilkey crafts a riotously inventive tale centered on George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two prank-loving fourth-graders at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School in Piqua, Ohio. Facing the despotic principal Mr. Benjamin Krupp, who constantly threatens them with expulsion, the boys channel their creativity into homemade comics starring Captain Underpants, a superhero whose power derives from elastic waistbands. Their scheme culminates in acquiring a 3-D Hypno-Ring from a comic book ad, which they use to hypnotize Krupp into believing he is the Captain whenever they snap their fingers, unleashing a bumbling yet enthusiastic defender of justice clad only in briefs. Chaos ensues as Professor Pippy P. Poopypants, a pint-sized inventor humiliated by his name, invades the school with his Shrinky-Pig 2000 ray and a uranium-powered giant robot to shrink the world and end laughter forever. Captain Underpants engages in slapstick battles, propelled by 'wedgie power,' while George and Harold orchestrate victories using cafeteria glue and ingenuity. Pilkey's meta-narrative, complete with 'Flip-O-Rama' animation pages and forged report cards, satirizes comics and school life, celebrating unbridled imagination in a format that invites kids to revel in rule-breaking hilarity.