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The Bad Guys #6

Alien vs Bad Guys

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with TONS of teeth and WAY too many butts is stealing them, one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys? Maybe. Will it be funny? You bet your butts it will!

140 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2017

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Aaron Blabey

165 books758 followers
Aaron is an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug.

In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.

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Profile Image for Montzalee Wittmann.
4,854 reviews2,300 followers
October 13, 2018
Too cute!

The Bad Guys #6 has our heroes stuck on the moon inside the alien chamber. The alien has lots of tentacles which have either eyes, teeth, or butts. He used the butts for hands! Hilarious art! Another winner!
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1,062 reviews197 followers
March 18, 2021
The good guys club find out that Dr. Marmalade isn't a Guinea pig but an alien in disguise. They are also being celebrated on earth as the Heroes for stopping Dr. Marmalade's weapon cute-zilla ray. Legs comes up with a plan to hack into an escape pod but before that he gets captured. Mr. Snake wants to just escape leaving Legs behind but one by one they all get captured except for Mr. Snake. Mr. Snake wants to be a hero but he also wants to escape. But he ends up being a hero and saves his friends. They end up escaping but have they escaped into the right time?

This was quite hilarious especially Mr. Snake. Mr. Snake is definitely my favorite. I love his hilarious lines and his smug expressions. I enjoyed this more than the last in the series. As usual art was pretty good.

Mr. Wolf to Mr. Snake - It's so dark. Why is it so dark?
It seems to be getting darker...
Don't you think it's really dark?


Mr. Snake to Mr. Wolf - YES! WELL SPOTTED! IT'S DARK!
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
A COOKIE?
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S DARK.


I laughed so hard at this.

4.5 stars
Profile Image for Paula Mota.
1,269 reviews416 followers
October 1, 2023
No episódio 6, o Clube dos Bonzinhos enfrenta um extraterrestre que tem tantas bocas como rabos. É preciso dizer mais? Continua irreverente e parva a melhor série infanto-juvenil que alguma vez saiu da Austrália.
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7,487 reviews227 followers
April 2, 2019
The Bad Guys crew - Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark, and Legs the tarantula - return in this sixth beginning chapter-book/graphic-novel devoted to their hilarious (mis)adventures. Squaring off against the invading alien once known as Dr. Marmalade, our heroes learn just what Mr. Snake - whose constant backsliding into villainy has been a theme in previous books - is made of, as he . Despite Mr. Snake's efforts, the companions must flee in an escape pod from KDJFLOERHGCOINWERUHCGLEIRWFHEKLWJFHXALHW (the alien) at the end, and find themselves most unexpectedly transported . What will they do now...?

I can see, after finishing The Bad Guys in Alien Vs. Bad Guys, that Australian author/artist Aaron Blabey still has a few surprise endings up his sleeve, and am a little sad that, having raced through the first six installments of the series in a few days, I will now have to wait some months for the seventh volume, The Bad Guys in Do-You-Think-He-Saurus?! I had the pleasure of meeting Blabey today, at an event at work, and he is every bit as entertaining in person as he is on the page. Apparently there are twenty volumes planned for The Bad Guys series, so there is still plenty of fun ahead! I enjoyed this one - I particularly liked the fact that Mr. Shark was able to pronounce the alien's name - and look forward to the publication of more about these madcap characters and their whacky adventures. Recommended to anyone who has read and enjoyed the first five books about these would-be-good Bad Guys.
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393 reviews31 followers
October 24, 2020
Ak sa zbavíte predsudkov budete sa baviť. Aj keď tu dominujú zadky, ide v prvom rade v tejto knihe o udržanie priateľstva. Séria stúpa k druhej vlne! #trebacitat
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683 reviews3 followers
May 4, 2019
*This review was verbally created by an 8-year-old boy, and transcribed by me*

I didn’t like how creepy the monster-alien was. He had butts on tentacles and they were hands, and it was weird and creepy.

My four favorite characters are: Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Mr. Wolf. I don’t like Legs because I don’t like spiders!

I like the part when Mr. Wolf isn’t paying attention and he’s tangled in the wires and pipes, and it’s really Mr. Shark dressed as the alien.

I also like when they’re in the rocket escaping and they look weird because they’re going so fast.

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From a parent’s perspective.

I didn’t like this one as much as the others. It went back to not really having a lot going on. Which doesn’t always mean a bad thing, just after the last few in the series it’s a bit disappointing.

Mr. Snake is really starting to irritate me. I’m glad he was called out in this episode, because his behavior took a major nosedive.

Even though the kiddo flew through this book — he wants to get them all read before the ninth book comes out — he says this wasn’t one of his favorites although he still “loves them all.”
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January 8, 2022
Y’all I’m officially attached to the characters. I literally cried over snake being emotionally vulnerable like I’m attached. I love this series so much holy crap. I didn’t expect to be attached to these characters but damn here i am. ALSO TIME TRAVEL ADDITION IM HELLA EXCITED FOR NEXT BOOK
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159 reviews2 followers
October 19, 2017
I’m always looking forward to the next book in the series. I never want to put the book down.
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799 reviews6 followers
May 16, 2021
Not a fan of aliens or how heavily this book relied on butt jokes. Quality in this series is pestering out...
823 reviews2 followers
September 11, 2018
My first venture into this young reader series. It was funny and the humour totally appropriate to a 7-10 year old.

The bad guys, who don't really seem all that bad, are stuck on an alien ship. Escape is going to be difficult. If they can stick together, they might all get out of it. Friendship plays and important part of this story.

I would happily recommend this series for any young reader.
November 2, 2021
Read this book with one of my English students because she got it at the library and I thought it was a good opportunity to get her into reading out loud.
She seemed to enjoy it and it has made her more confident in her pronunciation skills. I didn't enjoy it too much, but that is because there are a few too many mentions of alien butts and I'm not really at an age where that is funny.
But it is a great book for kids, and when I was 7 or 8 I probably would have loved it. There is a little lesson on friendship, trust and cooperation which isn't too in your face, so that's cool, too.
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1,574 reviews63 followers
May 2, 2021
Again, read a bunch of times in a short span, we get an alien spaceship caper that has Mr Snake coming into his own and ending with an Aliens riff. Some big time humour and a great ending sending us off into the next crazy adventure. Excellent stuff. My 5 year old chose to buy this for a treat rather than ice cream which says a lot.
27 reviews
October 28, 2022
The Bad Guys are vanishing! One by one taken away and at the end they suddenly Time-Traveled on 65 Milion BC! Mr. Snake launched the Escape Pod To trick the alien kdjfloerhgcoinweruhcgleirwfheklwjfhxalhw(Marmalade the Guinea pig) and them Mr. Snake wore the alien robot thing and beat Marmalade. But he can hold his breath in space for 9WEEKS.
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May 31, 2023
Read these books between March-May with my students in first grade. These were a hit with my non-readers and avid readers. I used my document camera to easily project the novel on the promethean board and read.

These are ENTERTAINMENT stories and not a lot of "meat" in the story. It made it an easy example for my students to see what reading for FUN vs. learning looked like.
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1,214 reviews71 followers
March 8, 2023
#DieBullebakke – Aaron Blabey
#Episode6
#RuimtewesensVsBullebakke
#ProteaBoekhuis

Hierdie prettige reeks vir die jongspan, gemik op lesers, veral seuns, vanaf 7 jaar, lees soos ‘n strokiesfilm in vervolgverhaal-formaat, eerder as ‘n tradisionele boek. Daarom word die boeke soos episodes genommer – en hierdie is episode 6.

‘n Kort samevatting vir diegene onbekend met die verhaal tot dusver: Die Bullebakke is Menere Wolf, Bene (‘n tarantula), Piranha, Slang en Haai. In episode 5 was hulle die wêreld se enigste hoop teen die bose Dokter Rupert Marmelade en sy vernietigende wapen, die zoepzilla-straal. Aangesien hy homself egter op die maan bevind het, moes die Bullebakke noodgedwonge ‘n ruimtetog onderneem; die gevolge daarvan word breedvoerig in hierdie episode verklap, maar eindig op ‘n mespunt wat vervolg in episode 7. (En nee, ek gaan dit nie verklap nie !)

Die oorspronklike titel is ‘The bad guys – Episode 6; Aliens vs Bad Guys’ en die Afrikaanse vertaling is deur die ervare Kobus Geldenhuys. Soos wat die geval is met strokiesprente, grafiese romans en fotoverhale, is die teks grootliks beperk tot dialoog en geluide; die volblad-illustrasies vertel die grootste deel van die verhaal. Dis deurspek met ouderdomstoepaslike humor en aksie (vorige avonture sluit selfs botsings met zombies in) en word sterk aanbeveel vir trae jong lesers.

Die fliek ‘The bad guys’ (April 2022) is op hierdie reeks gebaseer.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Uitdieperdsebek Protea Boekhuis
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803 reviews27 followers
April 4, 2018
I think this is my favorite Bad Guys yet! I loved getting a good laugh each time I read this series. So much fun and the students at my school LOVE these books. Keep 'em coming Aaron Blabey!
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216 reviews3 followers
January 4, 2020
Fortsatt rolig! Alla nybörjarläsare borde få denna i sina händer.
9 reviews
July 25, 2020
one word...Marmalade
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34 reviews
January 21, 2022
Ending was a little left field but otherwise made me and my son laugh out loud
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