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Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper

This is book one of a new graphic novel series, all done in black and white.  There are two main characters, plus a dog.  Megan is new to Chicagoland having moved for her dad’s job.  She has to take summer school and has some doubts about it.  Raf is a guy who works at his mom’s pet supply store.  Megan loves haiku poetry and Raf is a computer nerd. Megan starts school and right off the bat she realizes that all the students and staff are robotic.  She doesn’t cooperate eating her lunch, which contains the daily hypnotic control supplement, so the principal abducts her to inject her so she too will become robotic and complacent.  She texts Raf an SOS and he comes and with the computer program he’s developed erases the principal’s evil program, which in turn, erases it from all the students’ and staffs’ memories.  Everyone goes back to normal.  In the process, they rescue the lab dog on which experiments had been conducted.  The dog is able to speak to humans and Raf takes him home.  The dog, named Bradley, comes up with the idea of them opening a detective agency.  Fast paced, kind of weird and creepy, but sure to be a winner.  Look forward to the next installment.