Dead Max Comix, Book 1: The Deadening

Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist too shy to show his work to anybody but his best friend, Doug. Derrick is devastated when a car hits his dog Max. But after being cremated, Max returns from the other side and starts giving Derrick advice about affairs of the heart and standing up to bullies. Should Derrick take advice from a dead dog? Or will Max lead him astray?