It’s time to go back to school with Lola and all her Super Club Friends. Tucked away in her backpack are her cat Hot Dog, her stuffed dinosaur James, and a couple of skeletons, a scribble monster, a super-shark, and a crocodile that she met in her first set of adventures.

But when she gets to school, she finds that her regular teacher isn’t there. Instead there is a substitute who looks familiar to Lola. But it isn’t until the villainous Max Imum shows up for class that she knows for sure the teacher is his mother, a bag witch.

When the substitute starts punishing children for wrong answers by having a trap door open up below them, Lola decides to fill the empty seats with her Super Club friends. When the teacher’s friends make a lunch of Gut Goulash with Lice and Gelatin with Organic Boogers and a Tear Drop Custard, Lola and her Super Club declare a Food Fight and make Vampopper Bites with Garlic-Aioli Sauce and Wolf Hamburger with GlutBoog Ketchup.

Whatever the substitute (witch) hands out to her students, Lola counters. But it’s not until they find a friend in an unlikely place that they can defeat the witch and get their teachers back.

In the second story, Lola’s visit with her Grandpa starts with his stories of his days playing soccer and ends with the Super Club competing against Max Imum, his mom, and their whole villainous team in the Evilympic Games. Through events like the Uphill Martial Arts, Surfing Fencing, and Weightlifting Ping Pong, the two teams compete, cheating and treachery on one side and friendship and fun on the other.

Lola’s Super Club is the imaginative graphic novel from the minds of writer Christine Beigel and illustrator Pierre Foiullet. The stories are full of lightness and mischievous charm, and the bright illustrations are filled with small details that add so much character and energy.

I loved the first Super Club book, and this one is just as good. The creativity of these stories and these characters, the whimsy of the stories, and the clever dialogue make these books just as entertaining to adults as they are to kids. If I have to ding Lola’s Super Club #2 for anything, it’s that it doesn’t feature my favorite character quite as much as the first one (James, with his wedgie-inducing flowered undies, obviously), but I’m also a big fan of Lola, so I’ll let it go this time.

Egalleys for Lola’s Super Club #2: My Substitute Teacher Is a Witch were provided by Papercutz, with many thanks.