WOW. This book was so amazing!!!! It is my new favorite Goosebumps book!I love, love, LOVE books about comics. Not comic books. But books about comics and comic nerds. For instance, the book "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman, or the movies "Megamind," and "Sky High." So this book was right up my alley....Skipper Matthews LOVES comic books. Most of them he keeps in sealed plastic bags, sure that they will be worth a fortune when he grows up. He is small, dark, and chubby. He realizes that if he were in a comic book, his friend Wilson (tall, blonde, blue-eyed, and athletic) would be the hero, and he would just be the chubby, funny sidekick.Even though he's saving all his comics, he does read one comic - every single issue. It's called The Masked Mutant and it is the best-written, best-illustrated, and most exciting comic ever written!One day, while going to his orthodontist appointment, a small redhead girl sits next to Skipper. She introduces herself as Libby, a fellow comic lover. Only she doesn't read superhero comics, she reads High School Harry & Beanhead, read: Archie and Jughead. He thinks that is lame and boring! As they're chatting, Skipper suddenly notices he missed his stop and is in an unfamiliar neighborhood. He immediately gets off the bus with Libby.To his shock and amazement, right across the street is the headquarters of The Masked Mutant! He'd recognize that gigantic pink fire-hydrant-shaped building with a bright green roof anywhere! Could it really be true? Could The Masked Mutant, the most evil supervillain in the world, live right here in Riverview Falls?Skipper has to find out......Wow. This book knocked my socks off. I loved it. I was completely riveted. Like I said, I am a sucker for a good comic-book novel, and this one didn't disappoint! I never knew what was coming - Stine could have taken it in a billion different ways - but I was very satisfied with how it turned out!Some notes:1.) I loved the names in the comic book! Main characters were Libby, Skipper, Wilson, and Mitzi. Awesome names. And I found out that Skipper is a real name! Although in this case it turned out to be a nickname for Bradley.2.) The superhero names were SO LAME. These were the superheroes of the book: The Galloping Gazelle, The Amazing Tornado-Man, Speedboy, The Sensational Sponge, and The Battling Birdboy. Don't quit your day job, Stine! LOL Unless he was trying to be silly and funny. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. ;) No female villains OR heroes. :( The heroes are called... wait for it... The League of Good Guys. Seriously. SERIOUSLY.3.) While Skipper isn't a jerk (especially compared to some of the horrible brat characters Stine comes up with) he still is no Gary-Stu. Imagine you are a dark-haired, 12-year-old, chubby comic book nerd. Okay? You're on the bus and a cute little redhaired girl sits down next to you. You strike up a conversation with her and she likes comics, too. Skipper should be all over this. A cute girl is talking to him. SHE LIKES COMICS, TOO! Even he admits to himself that most girls he meets don't like comics. And what does he do? If you said, "He is nice to her and they become friends" - you would be wrong! Instead, he tells her that the comics she likes (Archie and Jughead) are stupid and lame. Also, when she invites him over to her house to look at her comic collection, HE SAYS NO. What a moron! He's no Casanova, that's for damn sure. I was rolling my eyes and yelling at him a lot, you can imagine.4.) He also doesn't treat his best friend Wilson so well. Wilson collects rubber stamps, which Skipper thinks is super-lame. He never listens to Wilson when Wilson wants to talk about stamps, but expects Wilson to listen to hours of talk about comic books. Sheesh. Friendship goes two ways, bub.5.) Bad parenting. I have two examples.a.) His mom and dad are always yelling at him about how many comics he reads. I'm like, "Be glad your kid reads ANYTHING." Comics are not bad! It is great if your kids takes an interest in reading, even if it is only issues of The Masked Mutant."b.) When he tries to tell his mom and dad something VERY IMPORTANT (view spoiler)[ He has started to appear as a character in his favorite comic (hide spoiler)]
Book Report on GooseBumps Attack of the Mutant GooseBumps Attack of the mutant is about a kid named skipper Matthews who lives in riverfalls and is addicted and a collector of comic books. and each month he get a montly edition of comics and one day hey came out of school and acedently missed his stop so he met a girl named libby who is a girl who liked comic books as well and she lived where skipper got lost and Skipper asked if Libby of what comic books she liked and she told him that she like high school bean something like that and skipper and Libby where fooling around. so the next day Skipper had to go to a dentist and he again ended up in the same place only that his dentist was right there so he meet libby again but this time he saw a buliding that was exactly like the one on his comic book which is the head quarters of the evil masked mutant so libby and skipper went inside but libby didnt belive him until he showed her in the comic book and they went inside and they went to an evolator and he pressed up and the elevator brought them down instead so the went down to the basement and skipper noticed that there were sketches of him and then he wanted to show libby but libby was gone and when he return to get it dissapered. ( libby is the masked mutant and the mask mutant can turn it self into anything) OpinionWhat i think about the book is that its a cool and fun book that gets a lot of suspense to the reader every time they move or change to a new chapter and it doesn't make you stop reading it until you finish it. This book is a level U book and it has 192 pages.
What do You think about Attack Of The Mutant (2004)?
I used to read a lot of Goosebump books when I was growing up, since I was going through elementary school when Goosebumps and Animorphs both put Scholastic on the map.This one was one of my favorites. It wasn't really scary (although even at the time I didn't find the Goosebumps books scary), but this was a fun one. I love comic books, so the use of nods to comic book conventions in this book were cool. The story is cheesy (but the same could be said of most of Goosebumps), but it sort of works especially since the whole story is based around, well, parodies of cheesy comic books.If you can track down some of the old Goosebumps books and you have young kids in elementary school, you could do a lot worse than digging up some of the better Goosebumps books like this one.
—Corey W.
SummaryThis book is about a boy, Skipper Matthews who has an awesome comic book collection. His favorite one is called The Masked Mutant, which is about an evil supervillian who is out to rule the universe. Skipper can’t get enough of the Mutant that he reads them all the time and sometimes cannot tell the difference between real life and his imagination. One day he gets lost in a strange part of town and he finds a building that looks exactly like The Mutant’s secret headquarters, a building that appears and disappears. Skipper wonders to himself if he has read too many comic books or if the Masked Mutant really lives in Riverview Falls.ResponseI gave this book a 2-star rating because I just really was not that interested in it. Maybe it was because I usually read books that are more towards the realistic fiction side. I think that this book will be good for my children to read because the interest level would be there for them. I noticed most about this book is that it is geared more for boys than girls and therefore I think it would be hard for me to use this in the classroom for a whole class lesson.Classroom ConnectionI think that this would be a great independent read followed by a summary for my children. It would allow them to explore different genres and maybe find a new one that could be their favorite. Lexile/Guided Reading LevelThe lexile for this book is 510L. The guided reading level for this book is P. This book would be appropriate for grades 2-4 for a read aloud and should be read independently by grade 3.
—Ashleigh
I never was a fan of the Goosebumps books as a kid, because I was too much of a coward and frightened easily. There's, really no other way to put it.BUT, and this is where it gets a little - well, really round-about; I saw this review online a while back regarding an old PC game. About two months ago I got the sudden craving to see it again, but I couldn't find it. I did find two other, more in-depth play through's, though, both presented by funny guys, on YouTube. Which got me to look for the original Goosebumps episode, also on YouTube. Which got me really, REALLY wanting to READ the original story. So I went on Amazon ...See, it's no sweat linking YouTube to Amazon to Goodreads! So yeah, I went about this in a bit of a reverse manner to perhaps most people, but what do I think about the book itself? I like it. It's short, sweet, the narrative is simple, no fuzz, good easy fun. Yeah, it's a quick read, and at times it kinda makes you laugh out loud at parts you're probably not "supposed" to, but when you pause and think about it it's very well written. I kept thinking that I wouldn't have minded much reading this when I was learning English. The protagonist, our narrator, is a KID who thinks like a kid and acts like a kid - alright, maybe apart from all the shouting out loud, but this is based on comic books and honestly? If I can spend most of my day cursing at a door (don't ask, but it comes from Hell I swear) and talking to my computer (which still hasn't answered me, probably a wise move), an excitable kid who finds himself in an unreal situation with comic book characters has my permission to exclaim the obvious. :)
—G.r.s. Hjelm
