Hubie’s school is going to have a carnival. “If we raise enough [money], we can have a real, live author come to our school. If we don’t, maybe we could afford a not-so-alive author.” So begins Mike Thaler’s  10 chapters of the antics at the Black Lagoon . The humor is fast paced with word play much like in THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH. Thanks to Jared Lee the pages are full of visual comic book  humor stretching even further the laughs per page. Hubie’s class booth turns out to be a dunk tank with aqua-phobic Hubie on the ‘hot seat’. The class makes tons of money because the crowd is throwing ping-pong balls at the mouse trap trigger of the target. Guess who /what eventually trips the lever? A mouse, of course. The school can afford an author, who just turns out to be none other than Mike Thaler.