News from Splurch Academy

On today's lunch menu in the Splurch Academy kitchens: Poacher's Pie (Mashed Turnips over Mole Stew). Thank you, Griselda.

School is always in session at Splurch Academy. No summer vacations here. So Cody Mack and his friends Carlos, Mugsy, Ratface, Sully, and Victor will not be available to visit their local bookstore on August 12, 2010, the day that the first two volumes of their chronicled exploits go on sale in the U.S. and Canada.

But the rest of you have no excuse for playing hookey.

The Rat Brain Fiasco and Curse of the Bizarro Beetle are the first two titles, followed in early 2011 by The Colossal Fossil Freakout, and later on that year by something, as yet untitled, involving squids.

Disruptive students everywhere -- we call on you to read the Splurch Academy books as cautionary tales. Let them serve as a warning to you to mend your ways -- or at least be a little more crafty about not getting caught. For if you don't, Headmaster Archibald Farley and his crew of cretins awaits you. And then something far more fearsome than Poacher's Pie may end up on the menu. Something with your name on it.

Stay tuned. And stay alert.