Mystery and Adventure, with Ample Illustrations

Ian has already written five "books," and made several copies of them and distributed them, and plans on selling them to the children in our neighborhood, and then in our town, and then in our state, and then in our country, and then in the world...

Daniel asked Ian to write a book (basically a comic-book style narrative as part of his "Tissue Man" series) involving a new character - specifically "a riddler dog." Ian happily obliged, writing a book about an inscrutable dog, who leaves paw-tracks in exhaustive, wacky patterns so that nobody can track his movement, and poses enigmatic questions as he patters around the world, such as, "Who am I?".

But Ian wanted to make sure that there was no brand-confusion between his own dog-of-wonder and the riddler from Batman, so he entitled his book, "Tissue Man Versus the Mysterious Dog of Mystery." Ian is not familiar with Austin Powers (we might sleep on the job sometimes, but letting Austin Powers into our house would be a capital crime) - so his coining of such a mystery-laden moniker is all the more colorful.

I would love to share the contents of the work - although it's admittedly somewhat scatological, in the tradition of Ian's inspirations, the "Captain Underpants" and "Super Diaper Baby" series. But Ian is very protective of his property rights, so I have to respect that. I offered to post the entire contents of his works, but he doesn't want anyone to steal his ideas.

(July 9, 2011)