"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted,...

A graphic-novel retelling of the Mark Twain story, in which young Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who think they are clever characters, witness a murder and are flung into a series of dangerous--and very frightening--situations.