Herbert's Wormhole: The Rise and Fall of El Solo Libre

by Peter Nelson, Rohitash Rao (Illustrator)

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the sequel to Peter Nelson and Rohitash Rao's Herbert's Wormhole , the breakout novel-in-cartoons that J. K. Rowling called "absolutely wonderful—fast-paced, inventive, engaging, and hilarious." Herbert, Alex, and Sammi are heroes in the year 2109, having successfully saved the planet from an alien invasion (or so everyone thinks). Everything is going just swimmingly until, inevitably, real aliens appear—the evil, destruction-obsessed Klapthorians. The crew is going to come clean, but then they meet a crazy old man—who turns out to be Alex, age 109—with a plan for saving the world all over again. Can they do it and still make it back home by curfew? The sequel to Herbert's Wormhole is chock-full of the same humor, imagination, and irresistible artwork as the first title. There are hijinks aplenty, not to mention skateboard stunts, time travel, and a whole lot of fake moustache shenanigans. Fans, old and new alike, will not be disappointed.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Middle Grade, Humor

320 pages, Hardcover

First published April 17, 2012

About the author

Librarian Note:
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Peter Nelson is a screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Diane, and their two sons, Charlie and Christopher. Peter grew up in New England, where he made up weird stories and invented strange games for the enjoyment of his two younger brothers, Sean and David. They’ve never forgiven him for it.

Herbert’s Wormhole is Peter’s first children’s book. He wrote it without ever having met an actual alien or traveling through time, which made it a bit more challenging, but just as fun.

Reviews

[Stay Fetters · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The two virtual alien SuperSlayers felt more like a couple of doofus-heads sitting in a tiny cave on the dark side of the moon.*
* Which, technically, they were."

This was one of those Dollar Tree finds that my husband picked up for me. We enjoyed it for the cover alone. A kid wearing a Lucha Libre mask and tighie whities. I was sold on that alone and it wound up being quite the adventurous tale of three friends. Who travel through a wormhole to save the future Planet Earth!!

One day while playing together at the park, three friends come across something that they have never seen before. A wubba-wubba-wubba and they decide to jump on in. They are taken to a far off future where Aliens and Humans coexist side by side. Shocked by this change of events, the town believes that they are the reason why their planet was spared by some monstrous aliens from another planet. But are they really the heroes they are known to be?

One evil little snot knows the real truth and he set it in his sights to bring the truth forth and they can stop worshipping these little twerps. Gor-Don will stop at nothing to get his point across and he makes flyers to throw out to people when the three superslayers get back to future Earth.

Review to come!

[Ced]

So basically in Herbert's wormhole ,Herbert and his friends go through a slide and travel through a wormhole that leads to the future where him and his friends are alien slayers while he's there.There is and evil alien who hates them so much that she does everything in the universe to stop them. But on the way the team has broken up which causes Herbert to no long be a alien slayer but to be El solo Libre! But when he went solo he went searching for someone who is much like him ,if you want to know who this person is and want to be able know why he went solo read to find out .

[Mamatufy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The three squabbling young time travelers introduced in Herbert's Wormhole again save their future hometown from alien invaders. Real ones, this time. A selective memory wipe has convinced Alex that the video-game monsters he and his buddies Herbert and Sammi had "killed" in the previous episode were real, and he's bored by the subsequent lack of AlienSlayer action. He foolishly makes a jeering interstellar phone call to the hostile Klapthorians to schedule an annihilation of Earth. Suffused with satiric line drawings as well as direct and indirect homages to Captain Underpants, the ensuing antics zigzag happily. They take readers from this time to the next century, from Merwinsville to the Moon on the way to a suitably titanic battle with not one but TWO giant Klapthorian Death Slugs. (OK, one's a parade balloon, but still.) Ultimately Alex comes to realize that even with a Mexican wrestling mask and a new moniker he's not going to get by without a little help from his friends. A fine supporting cast consisting largely of squidlike, Aussie-accented "G'Daliens" and a supercomputer aptly dubbed the SarcasmaTron provide additional yuks.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comic novel with some illustrations. Time travel, friendship, aliens, outsmarting your mom, you know the usual. Good for those wanting something kinds of silly 2nd-5th grade.

[Carterkempgmail.Com · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just loved the first one, but this sequel was a little tiresome to get through.

[Mellanie C]

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