Dog Man: Big Jim Begins

Its place in Dog Man

Dog Man: Big Jim Begins is book 13 in the Dog Man series. It follows Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder. It is followed by Dog Man: Big Jim Believes. See the full Dog Man reading order.

When a police dog and his handler are both critically injured in the same explosion, a well-meaning surgeon panics and sews the dog's head onto the cop's body -- creating Dog Man, a good-hearted, not-especially-bright canine police officer who chases squirrels mid-chase and eats evidence when nobody's looking. Dav Pilkey's graphic novel series (a spin-off from his own Captain Underpants, narrated in-universe as a comic drawn by fourth-graders George and Harold) follows Dog Man as he squares off against the…