Ursula Vernon

Danny Dragonbreath and his friends try to help the senior reptiles of Sunny Acres find a lost item.

The Case of the Toxic Mutants

Sarah Sammis

This volume, more than the other eight books really feels like a product of its decade of publication. Put another way, The Case of the Toxic Mutants reads like the Dragonbreath universe's version of a typical early Ben 10 episode. I'm thinking of "Permanent Retirement" (Season 1, episode 4, 2006), except that the mutants aren't the elderly. Maybe think of it more as Rats of NIMH meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets Futurama meets Ben 10 and expertly blended into something coherent and funny by Ursula Vernon.

What I'm trying to say is that this volume is built on the plot of "out of site, out of mind." H.G. Wells did it with The Time Machine (1895) and it was done again in Metropolis (1927). But the trope of the elderly being especially clueless to societies living under them was a popular trope in the early 2000s. It seems to have fallen out of use in the last five or so years.

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