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Who among us of a obvious age ever thought we would watch The Beano Annual priced at £11.ninety nine, or Oor Wullie & The Broons (blended) Annual at £15.ninety nine? That’s £28 for two Annuals, for crying out loud! Fortunately, WHS are selling any two D.C. Thomson Annuals this year for handiest £12, that system that, in actuality, you are getting Oor Wullie & The Broons Annual (if that’s considered one of your settle on of two, that’s) for almost nothing.
The Beano is celebrating its Eighty fifth Anniversary this year and this milestone is highlighted in the Annual, which contains all-new self-discipline topic. The Oor Wullie & The Broons ebook should completely factual be regurgitating (again) pages which be pleased already looked in outdated books on this series, but that will not be any longer going to topic must you have not viewed them earlier than, I snarl. Normal Crivvies would possibly well be conscious me speculating just a few years relief whether the Dennis who appears to be like in the contemporary Beano is the distinctive Possibility or the son of the distinctive, and now it appears to be like decent – he’s the son of the one who first looked in 1951.
I nasty this on the truth that when the contemporary Dennis’s grandparents are viewed in flashbacks to when dad used to be a boy (and the spitting image of this day’s Dennis) they’re the doubles of mom and dad as they looked in the ’50s true up until just a few years prior to now, when a ‘new gawk’ used to be all of sudden presented. It would possibly well successfully be that this has been a longtime truth for a whereas now, but no longer being a authorized reader of the weekly comic, I overlooked the proper second if or when it came about.
Nevertheless, there isn’t very any doubting it in the Dennis tales in the ebook for 2024, though whether Gnasher and Gnipper are the originals (and therefore if truth be told conventional – though Gnipper would no longer be a pup) or whether or not they’re presupposed to be the offspring off the originals is one thing I’m nonetheless in doubt of. I’ve taken a fleet gawk thru The Beano ebook and all of it appears to be like high-notch, artwork-shining (with the exception of I nonetheless gather no longer just like the cutesy, smiling Dennis versus the surly, frowning one I study as a boy), and Oor Wullie/Broons quantity has some basic Dudley D. Watkins artwork, as successfully as pages by Ken H. Harrison, Robert Nixon, and others.
So, until you are willing to assist and watch whether the books will seemingly be extra reduced around Christmas or Contemporary Year, I’d repeat that now is the time to buy them earlier than stock runs low. It is seemingly you’ll well presumably utilize your £12 in some distance worse ways, so trudge appropriate down to WHS on the earliest opporchancity and plonk your kilos on the counter and give your self a cope with. (Conceal photos borrowed from DCT shop to spare me the trouble of scanning my hold copies.)
