Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Story: Peter Browngardt
Art: Various
Release Date: 15th October 2014 (issue #1), 12th November 2014 (issue #2)

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Issue #1 Review

For the uninitiated (me – I had to Google it), Uncle Grandpa is a mad-cap cartoon that was created in 2013 by Browngardt for the Cartoon Network. This issue collects stories, games and colour-in panels drawn by different artists – some more mad-cap than others. To be fair it’s more of a kids magazine than a comic and I am definitely not the target audience. The whole thing reminded me of Spongebob Squarepants with that sense of animated anarchy.

What did I like? Well, actually…I did like a couple of things. Uncle Grandpa and cohorts play with the comic book form and the narrative in almost an existential way. They fall through frames. they re-draw panels, they ignore the gutter and one story ‘The Scariest Story Ever’ was amusing. Imagine kids trying to outscare each other and smooshing together everything they find scary and you’ll have this story.

I am going to give it 3/5 because I think kids will find it hysterical and us adult just won’t get it.

Rating 3/5.

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Issue #2 Review

Uncle Grandpa is completely and utterly bonkers. Issue 2 continues his toying with the comic book as the first story involves Uncle swapping the creator’s pencil for a crayon. When asked “How do I look?”, the creator replies “Totes cray cray.” Welcome to the bonkers-mad world of Uncle Grandpa.

A dancing pizza slice that makes its way into the gut of a rotund man. The pizza then helps Uncle with an itch by calling on a real tiger. Who then rips apart some of the characters then the world. These seem to be recurring characters too. The comic ends with a ‘fan letter’ asking Uncle how he creates his moustache, to which a baker shows us how he bakes it.

See? Bonkers. I am too old for this shit.

Rating 2/5.

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The Writer of this piece was: Hazel Hay

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