If you have a 7-year-old who treats sitting down with a book like a chore, Cat Ninja is an easy win. It hits the same fast, visual frequency as Dog Man—a chubby house cat named Claude lives a pampered life by day, then slips on a mask to battle a genius hamster in a motorized ball by night.

It stays light on heavy moralizing and heavy on physical comedy and silly gadgets. Matthew Cody and Yehudi Mercado keep the panel layouts clean and readable, letting young readers build visual comprehension without getting bogged down in dense text.