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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist - Review - Bleeding Cool News

Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist is the second graphic novel in Jason Platt's popular Middle School Misadventures graphic novel series. It follows the antics of middle-schooler Newell and where his hyperactive imagination takes to take him and his loyal friends.

Middle-School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist cover art
Middle-School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist cover art

In Operation: Hat Heist, Newell has his favourite hat stolen. It's not just any old hat, it's the same hat worn by his TV hero, adventurer Captain Patrick O'Shaughnessy from the show "The Captain". He was all set to wear it to meet the actor playing the captain at an upcoming convention. But some jerk from school stole his hat, then principle confiscated it. What's a kid to do? If you're a manic, frantic, all-or-nothing kind of dude like Newell, you gather your friends together like Ocean's 11 and plan to steal it back in time for the con.

Jason Platt Talks Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist!
Artwork from Middle-School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist

This is a big, thick, long story, running at 225 pages long. Jason Platt takes a deceptively simple starting point to launch increasingly complicated and chaotic slapstick misadventures, all for the sake of Newell trying to get his hat back. Platt's art style is reminiscent of Bill Watterson's for Calvin & Hobbs, which creates the perfect tone for over-the-top emotions and pratfalls. It captures perfectly the life-or-death epic that is every middle-grade kid's life when school, pop culture, and friends are their entire world. There's a lot of structure and plot in the story that's better paced and controlled than most stories aimed at more mature or adult readers. This may be a story about a bunch of grade school kids, but it's also a crime story, a heist story, a hallucinatory fantasy. Jason Platt manages to replicate the crazed jumbo of daydreams, wish-fulfillment, and empowerment scenarios that every kid creates in their head then uses his art to seamlessly jump from the movie playing inside Newell's head to the reality unfolding in front of him. There's even a fun, twisty plotline about the loose cannon in the gang who may or may not betray them, and even a big crime fiction-style reveal at the end.

Jason Platt Talks Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist!
Artwork from Middle-School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist

It's a bit odd to review a book like this during lockdown because it depicts everything kids can't do while stuck at home. Maybe reading this will help them forget about being stuck at home and take them on a fantasy of total freedom of committing mischief and hijinks.

Middle School Misadventures: Operation: Hat Heist is published by Little & Brown, and is now available in both hardcover and trade paperback editions.

About Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist who just likes to writer. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.

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