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Brandou, Andrew – Howdy Pardner

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Howdy Pardner

I feel like I’ve just been dipped in sugar. Honestly, I’ve seen a lot of cute comic books in my day, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything cuter than this. Is that a good thing? Well, not really. Not for me, anyway. I don’t know what your tastes are like. Put it this way: if you like watching Comedy Central all hours of the day and enjoy all the things on that channel that serve no other purpose than to be cute, go ahead and buy this. It’s done well, it just wasn’t something that I enjoyed. It’s the story of a cowboy (yes, his name really is “Howdy Pardner”) who tries to talk some ghosts out of haunting the house of a scared lady. They are singing ghosts, and he approaches them the only way he knows how: by singing! It’s drawn well though. I guess the closest thing I can think of to relate this to would be an Archie comic. Kids would probably love this. I can’t get his homepage to work, but my connection is temperamental, so you might want to give it a shot. Other than that, e-mail him because he says in his book that he’ll give out free stuff to people who say “hi”. Once you get some free stuff you can figure out for yourself if you want more…