Super Potato's Mega Time-Travel Adventuire, by Artur Laperla, for Timeslip Tuesday

Here's a fun graphic novel for younger kids (6-9 year olds ish) for this week's timeslip Tuesday-Super Potato's Mega Time-Travel Adventure, by Artur Laperla (August 6th 2019 by Graphic Universe). Yesterday I also read a YA book that I thought would be today's post (Hello Now, by Jenny Valentine, which was billed as time travel by the library system), but I decided that interdimensional eternal existence isn't time travel, and I didn't actually like it much in any event, so I fell back on my fall back plan, which was spending ten minutes reading Super Potato, and here I am.

I actually enjoyed Super Potato (S.P.) very much.  Though this is the third book in the series, I had No Trouble At All grasping the backstory--macho, good looking, egomaniac superhero, Super Max, turned into a  potato with the same superpowers by a bad guy.  Several years have passed.  Now Scientists have made a time machine, to give S.P. a chance to go back and foil the bad guy before the transformation happens, so S.P. travels back in time (which makes him very sick to his stomach.  Suspension of disbelief is required, because of course potatoes don't have stomachs...)

S.P. has only a limited window of time in the past...but when a nasty sewer swamp villain shows up, boasting about kidnapping Olivia, who was constantly getting kidnapped and rescued by Super Max, S.P. can't just do nothing.  So it's off to the sewers to save the damsel in distress, who is pretty fed up about it all and gets an awesome kick in to show she's not altogether helpless.

But this adventures makes S.P. miss his date with destiny, and he is still a potato when the time machine brings him back to the present.   The thoughtful reader (which would be me) thinks that he let himself get distracted by the side quest because he's actually happier as a potato; it's clear he has mixed feelings about his past self (with good reason!).

And indeed, he is much nicer as he is now.  He is an awful winsome little flying potato dude, and I found him charming!  (nb--the cover doesn't do the cuteness justice, because it's zoomed in on him so much.   In most of the illustrations, he is a small potato drawn to scale, so much cuter, flying around in his little cape...)