What are your personal feelings about Groundhog Day as a holiday? Believe it or not, in this installment of the Black Lagoon Adventures, Hubie thinks it is ridiculous. Nevertheless, when Hubie’s teacher assigns his entire class a job for their school’s morning news show in February he becomes anchorman for February 2, Groundhog Day. As any good reporter Hubie begins with research in the library. It turns out, the groundhog, Punxsutawney  Phil, is only “right 39 percent of the time.” (14) Anything can be right 39% of the time. Hubie is not excited about Groundhog Day like the rest of his class. He thinks it’s silly. Humhog. The school is having a play during lunchtime about Groundhog Day.  Hubie has a hogmare the night prior to his broadcast. In it, Hogzilla “cast a big shadow.” (28) Hogzilla ruins parts of the school. Hubie is hoping the school won’t be serving groundhog for lunch on February 2. Early on February 2, Hubie gets up at 7:25 AM to begin watching for Punxsutawney Phil on TV. Punxsutawney Phil does not see his shadow. ” ‘I guess spring is in the air,’ I smiled.” (50) The newscast goes well. ABC, NBC, and CBS News all want Hubie to work for them.

The book closes with 8 Groundhog facts.

This would not be a Black Lagoon Adventure book without silly, but humorous, little doodles in the page margins by Jared Lee, in addition to the other major black and white sketches accompanying the story.