#superpuppy

[mamawasatesttube]

desperately want a story in which krypto makes a lady friend and then oops!!! a whole litter of superpowered puppies!!!! they can fly, they can scratch a door down, they shoot lasers from their eyes, they can hear the crinkles a mile off, and by god are they energetic... good luck kent family you're gonna need it!!!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"

I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me in BURBANK with WIL WHEATON on THURSDAY (Mar 13), and in SAN DIEGO at MYSTERIOUS GALAXY on Mar 24. More tour dates here.

"Cult author" is a maddeningly imprecise term – it might mean, "writer whose readers are a small but devoted band," or it might mean "writer whose readers are transformed forever by their work, so that they never see the world in the same way again."

That latter sense is what I mean when I call Daniel Pinkwater a "cult author." Pinkwater has written more than 100 books and has reached a vast audience, and those books are so singular, so utterly fantastic that when one Pinkwater fan meets another, they immediately launch into ecstatic raptures about these extraordinary works.

Pinkwater writes all kinds of books: memoir, picture books, middle-grades titles, young adult novels, extremely adult novels that appear to be young adult novels, and one of the classic works on dog-training (which I read, even though I don't own a dog and never plan on owning a dog) (it was great):

https://pinkwater.com/book/superpuppy-how-to-choose-raise-and-train-the-best-possible-dog-for-you/

Pinkwater has a new book out. It's great. Of course it's great. It's called Jules, Penny and the Rooster and it's nominally a middle-grades book, and while it will certainly delight the kids in your life, I ate it up:

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/jules-penny-the-rooster/

Jules and her family have just moved to a suburb called Bayberry Acres in the sleepy dormitory city of Turtle Neck and now she's having a pretty rotten summer. She misses all her friends back in the city, her grumpy bassoon-obsessed sister broke her finger and it staying home all summer watching old movies and hogging the TV instead of going to bassoon camp, and all the other kids in Bayberry Acres are literal babies, which may pay off in babysitting gigs, but makes for a lonely existence for Jules.

Worst of all: Jules's parents always promised that she could get a dog when they eventually moved out of their little apartment and bought a house with a yard in the suburbs, and now that this has come to pass, they're reneging. They say that all they promised was that they would "talk about getting a dog" after moving, and that "no, we're not getting a dog" constitutes "talking about it," and that settles the matter. Jules knows that what's really going on is that her parents have bought all new furniture and rugs and they're worried the dog will mess or chew on these. Jules loves her parents, but when she gets her own place, she's a) definitely getting a dog, and b) not allowing her parents to visit, because they might mess or chew on her furniture.

All that changes when Jules enters an essay contest in the local newspaper to win a collie (a contest she enters without telling her parents, natch) and wins – coming home from a visit to see her beloved aunt back in the old neighborhood to find her finger-nursing, oboe-obsessed big sister in possession of her new dog. After Jules and her sister do some fast talking to bring their parents around, Jules's summer – and her life in the suburbs – are rescued from a summer of lonely doldrums.

Jules names the collie Penny, and they go for long rambles in the mysterious woods that Bayberry Acres were carved out of. It's on one of these walks that they meet the rooster, a handsome, proud, friendly fellow who lures Penny over the stone wall that demarcates the property line ringing the spooky, abandoned mansion/castle at the center of the woods. Jules chases Penny over the wall, and that's when everything changes.

On the other side of that wall is a faun, and little leprechaun-looking guys, and a witch (who turns out to be a high-school chum of her city-dwelling, super-cool aunt), and there's a beast in a hidden dilapidated castle. After Jules sternly informs the beast that she's far too young to be anyone's girlfriend – not even a potentially enchanted prince living as a beast in a hidden castle – he disabuses her of this notion and tells her that she is definitely the long-prophesied savior of the woods, whose magic has been leaking out over years. Jules is pretty sure she's not the savior of anything, but the beast and the witch are very persuasive, and besides, the prophecy predicts that the girl who saves the woods will be in company of a magic wolf (Penny's no wolf, but close enough?) and a rooster. So maybe she is the savior?

This is where Pinkwater really whips the old weird/delightful plotting into gear, introducing a series of great, funny, quirky characters who all seem to know each other (a surprising number were in the same high-school as Jules's aunt), along with some spectacular, mouth-watering meals, beautifully drawn animal-human friendships, and more magical beings than you can shake a stick at.

The story of how Jules recovers the lost artifact that will save the woods' magic is just a perfect, delicious ice-cream cone of narrative, with sprinkles, that you want to share with a friend (rarely have I more keenly regretted that my kid is now a teen and past our old bedtime story ritual). As I wrote in my blurb:

"The purest expression of Pinkwater's unique ability to blend the absurd and the human and make the fantastic normal and the normal fantastic. I laughed long and hard, and turned the final page with that unmissable Pinkwatertovian sense of satisfied wonder."

I am so happy to be a fully subscribed member to the Pinkwater Cult (I've got the Martian space potato to prove it).

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/11/klong-you-are-a-pickle/#martian-space-potato

[homokommari]

Every time I read superbat and Superman flies off I imagine your superpuppy and it makes me so happy.

Thank you for superpuppy.

as u should

[cosmonautroger]

Superpuppy

[polishdrdolittle]

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[sacramento732jb-blog]

Oddball as a superpuppy

[piperthewolf125]

hey there i'm piper the wolf, also known as superpuppy on youtube feel free to come and join my server but you must 13 or older to join, please enjoy your stay.

[doomspaniels]

Action Dog, Super Tristan!

[musikat18]

I ship you with either Clark or Palmer. A sweetheart whose going to adore everything about you but also needs you to remind him to take care of himself as he tries to save the world.

!!!!!!!! I’m So Soft I Love This

(Tell Me Who You Ship Me With And Why!)

[standard-tshirt]

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[buckscountybytes]

Happy Friday!!! Calypso has been busy all week! She’s been to different parks, exploring swimming places, puppy classes, walks, trail walks, tunnels, ladders and so much more!! Her commands are increasing and she’s supergirl with a twist of Xena the Warrior, Herkales, Samson and Thunderous Thor all wrapped into one!! She’s an amazing English Lab and we are truly blessed and grateful she came into our lives at the time she did…she will be turning 5 months soon!! Her adventures continue as she grows bigger and stronger and is surely confident in all she does! Thanks to Susie Danzis Meany for her weekly classes and all her puppy classmates …have an amazing weekend my extended family and friends!! 🐾♥️🐾 #yellowlabrador #talesofalabpuppy #lifewithdogs #labsofinstagram #waterdog #labradorretriever #paws #puppiesofinstagram #happyweekend #lifewithlabradors #love #livelovelaugh #bestdogever #superpuppy #fieldandtrial #agility #happypuppy #buckscounty #puppyschool (at Bucks County, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chc2NeOObqu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mamawasatesttube]

I have a very important character for the ask meme: Krypto. (Yappy earth dog or super pup, dealer’s choice)

YEAHHHH superpuppy for the moment but maybe ill go back and do earth krypto sometime too hehe

Headcanon A:  realistic

he's made kon get incredibly good at home repairs. the supertail wagging against the back door, the overenthusiastic game of fetch that ended up destroying the farmhouse ac unit, the fly buzzing around the room that krypto didn't like so he lasered it to death (and also lasered a hole straight through the wall, but hey. he got the fly. he's a good boy.)

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

at some point he gets it in his head that he needs to check in on the people kon loves regularly. somehow this turns into him deciding that after dinner every evening, he's gotta fly to gotham and take tim on a walk. as in, he'll show up, leash in mouth, shove the handle into tim's hand, and wait impatiently for tim to go to the door and put his shoes on so krypto can lead him down the street.

tim does not get a choice in this. tim is not taking krypto for a walk. krypto is taking tim for a walk. the one time tim refuses and says he's busy, krypto simply takes him for a fly instead! yay yippee wahoo!!!

tim agrees to go for a walk the next day.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

how many times do you think ma and pa woke up in the morning to find that krypto wasn't at home, only to go down and find him, curled up, muddy, and miserable, on kon's grave?

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

i ignore prime earth being like "krypto is the generic family pet for all supers". that is kon-el's emotional support pumby dog that clark gave to him years ago. kon is his favorite and the bias is VISIBLE.

[homokommari]

Hiii!

It's unhealthy how often I refresh your page looking for your art or Superbat fix. Your art is amazing and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your creative mind 😊❤️

(also, is superpuppy ok? just checking)

thank u! <3

superpuppy is fine btw dw, he's finally finished his studies and now practices medicine, he is superpuppy md

[ryaninthesky12]

Lena *comes home. The balcony window is shattered and there's glass everywhere*:

Kara:

Kara: I thought you were never ever ever coming home ever.

Kara: So I panicked.

[sacramento732jb-blog]

Domino as a superpuppy

[doomspaniels]

Tristan does enjoy getting behind the curtain, and then wearing it like a cape.

SuperPuppy to the squeaky rescue!