This is a book that revels in the silliness of kid superheroes fighting a lizard guy who's trying to pop a giant balloon, and it's all the better for it.
The kids couldn't win without teamwork, but Lynch and Haspiel don't hit the reader of the head with the message any more than necessary. Fighting Together Forever by Dean Haspiel and Jay Lynch. The story is really a parable about the importance of teamwork, but as a parent, I appreciate that the lesson isn't so heavy-handed as to ruin a good story. Mo and Jo by Dean Haspiel, Jay Lynch, 2013, TOON Books / RAW Junior, LLC edition, in English. It's full of childish whimsy as the two kids, with costumes labeled "Mo" and "Jo" fight the supervillain Saw-Jaw whose sinister plan involves popping a gigantic hippopotamus parade balloon. This isn't a book built on a pervading logic, nor should it be. Why would the Mighty Mojo leave his powerful costume in the hands of two random kids? Why would the costume so easily tear exactly in half? None of these questions matter in the larger scheme of things, and the story sprints forward as Mona and Joey's mom turns the torn costume into two separate, kid-sized costumes, so the kids can go off and play superheroes. If he could have any superpower, he'd like to know what color something is just by touching it.All of this happens in the first five pages, just to give you an idea about the pace of this story. When he wasn't reading comic books, he would draw his own cartoon characters on the sidewalk in front of his house-then hide in the bushes to hear what other kids had to say about his drawings! Jay grew up to become a legendary cartoonist and has helped create many popular humor products, including Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids. If he could have any superpower, he'd like to fly, -because that would just be cool!- Jay Lynch, who wrote Mo and Jo's story, loved to read funny superhero comics like Plastic Man when he was a kid. He has created his own comic character, Billy Dogma, and is the founder of the webcomic collective ACT-I-VATE. He admits that he used to fight with his brother all the time, too: -All siblings have a healthy rivalry, and so did we.- Dean has illustrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon's The Escapist and drawn superheroes for Marvel and DC Comics. Dean Haspiel, who drew Mo and Jo, used to read Fantastic Four and Shazam! when he was a kid.
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