Jake Spooky And the Wolves Within Him
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Jake Spooky keeps puking up wolves…
…and he has no idea why.
Meet Jake Spooky. He’s a shy, punk-rockin' ghost who has some strange and mysterious powers bubbling just below the surface. Things can get a little bit...WEIRD in Jake's world. Luckily, his roommates, the TV-headed Brand-o and Quincy the cat, help keep things under control—most of the time. One day, as a massive hurricane approaches, Jake can’t seem to stop puking up wolves, and their landlord has had enough! If any more wolves show up, the three friends are going to get kicked out of their house.
Jake just wants to chill out and have band practice. But first, he will need to look inside himself and unravel the mystery of the wolves within.
“Reading Jake Spooky is like taking a walk into Michael Grover’s delightfully bizarre brain, it literally made me hungry for more (and strawberry jam)”. - Jerusha Hess (Oscar-nominated co-creator of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grover (Deeply Dave) contemplates the grounding power of friendship in this appealingly strange graphic novel about ghost Jake Spooky, who is inexplicably regurgitating live wolves. Unadorned, thinly lined comics introduce Jake—shown as a white sheet sporting a baseball cap and wearing a dot-eyed, deadpan expression—whose befuddling gastrointestinal issues have thrown a wrench in his otherwise chill existence. Though his laid-back roommates seem only marginally concerned, the arrival of a threatening letter from their landlord forces the friends to tackle Jake's problem head-on. Along with humanoid Brand-o, whose head is a vintage TV, and underpants-wearing cat Quincy, Jake sets out to uncover the origin of his tummy troubles. Background details mirror the increasing urgency of Jake's plight: wolves engage in chaotic shenanigans while denizens of Jake's tropical community frantically prepare for an approaching hurricane. Elongated sequences of repeating identical panels give punch lines visual heft and vivacious pink accents punctuate the spare b&w artwork, imparting exclamatory verve to a simultaneously absurd and sincere plot about friends on the brink of transition. Ages 8–12.
