When Max and Pinky decide to play superheroes, Pinky gets stuck with all of the unappealing sidekick duties, until Max finds himself in real trouble.

August DuPont has a small problem. When a zombie followed him home one day, he didn't expect her to stick around. But his very dead great-great aunt Claudette is in no hurry to leave August's side. In order to rid himself of his clammy sidekick, August must hunt down the elusive Zombie Stone. His frantic search leads him through a bizarre carnival and back to his dour cousins, the Malveaus. Throw in a necromancer, a pop star with attitude, some...

Meet Rickety Stitch...a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem. His sidekick and sole friend is the gelatinous Goo, who Rickety alone can understand. Together they set out in search of Rickety's past,...