Grandpa Won’t Wake Up

Grandpa Won’t Wake Up
Boom! Town
Written by Simon Max Hill
Art by Shannon Wheeler

Have you ever watched, listened to or read something that you knew was wrong to laugh at because it was just wrong, unholy, utterly insane or insert your term here, you ever do that? Well, I have a new one I can say with this book. Two kids are trying to wake up their grandpa. No matter what they try and they everything they can think of, he doesn’t wake up. You can guess where this is going but, even so, you keep reading. It’s almost involuntary, you want to see what they do and it will shock you what they do.

This book is written like those simple children’s books from back in the day (you have to see where owner puts their name in it). It even has a gold spine, so if you’re not paying attention, you’re children are going to get a surprise bedtime story. There are only one or two sentences on each page, true to form. The art is very simple, again just like those classic books. It fits for what they’re doing with the story. There’s no paneling in this because it’s actually a book, yeah I was surprised about that too.

Reading this, I just kept thinking the obvious, yet I was see the things they were doing and then going to, oh no they didn’t. But there they went. Then it was, they didn’t go, but the writers did then it went to, this is wrong and that morphed into the inevitable, why am I laughing at this? In my humble opinion this is one that you should pick up. But if you do, let me warn you now, if you have kids make sure you keep track of this book and they never see it! I give this 4 caps out of 5.