It’s time to check out a short issue for Grumpy Cat. This is the first comic that I’ve ever read about this character and I’m not familiar with the memes either so it’s a new experience. It makes for a fun read and out of the three stories, two of them are good. That’s not bad considering that stories can wildly range when it comes to quality. They can be good or terrible. The middle one is the weak link as you may have expected. After all, basic marketing says that you should end on a high note and you also have to start with an engaging story as well.

The first one has a parody of Batman V Superman at the beginning which was great. Pokey wants to be a superhero so he forces Grumpy Cat into joining along as well. The two of them defeat a pair of house thieves and decide to call it a day. Not bad for a day’s work right? Grumpy Cat lives up to his name and he spends the whole issue complaining, but at least he always helps out in the end. His costume was cool as well so he should be happy about that…even if his code name was pretty bad and being a sidekick is no fun. The art was fairly solid as well.

The second story had the worst art of the bunch. It simply wasn’t very good and the story wasn’t engaging either. Grumpy wants to be an artist, but he doesn’t want to be popular. He wants a small cult following and that’s tough to intentionally grab. Still, it simply wasn’t very interesting. Finally, we saw Grumpy and Pokey decide to try their hand at detective work. Grumpy showed why he is known as the smart one in the group here as he quickly realized who the culprit was and acted accordingly. Pokey wasn’t really any help this time though so Grumpy had to give him a distraction while he handled the real threat. The dialogue was fairly good and the artwork was back to looking good so it was a nice way to end things.

Grumpy Cat seems like a fairly promising series. It’s not a series that I can picture myself reading anytime soon, but it’s not bad. Grumpy makes for a good lead at any rate and sometimes a solid lead can go a long way in an adventure like this. No crude humor or things like that to hold this comedy back which is great as well. So far so good with these Free Comic Book Day issues.

Overall 7/10