Take a ride on the “Panda Xpress!”

Everybody loves pandas. Everybody loves British secret agents. Most people love cute little girls in a desperate search for their missing fathers.

Take all these key ingredients and throw in an anthropomorphic goat with a speech impediment and a roller skating samurai with a thing against ninjas and you’ve got the colorful and surreal experience that is “Panda Xpress!”

Not to be confused with the popular Chinese food chain, the tiny-spicy-chicken-free “Panda Xpress!” is a comic book with new pages posted online every Monday and Thursday.

The story, however, is not your average comic book fare.

It follows the adventure of Delia, a young girl looking for her father. She rides a panda named – appropriately enough – Panda. Together, they search aimlessly.

In truth, her father is being held by a goat named Pollo for some evil reasons that haven’t been expressed yet.

The artwork on this site is absolutely amazing. It looks like a cross between Japanese animation, Norman Rockwell and Lisa Frank – those obnoxious notebooks from the early ’90s with the dolphins and ponies.

Along with the comics, “Panda Xpress!” has a blog that is full of what they call Panda Facts, which are little tidbits of information about anything and everything.

So, you can enjoy some groovy art, an intriguing story and then prove yourself smarter than your friends all at one site, www.pandaxpress.com. Be sure to remember that there’s no ‘e’ at the first of Xpress or you’ll end up with information about sweet and sour pork rather than pure comic-y goodness.

Steve Shinney is a junior majoring in computer science. Comments can be sent to him at

steveshinney@cc.usu.edu.