Hard to believe I've been doing this for ten straight years now!
Hope you had a best holiday season whatever you celebrate or don't. Now let's get into this year's treats.
Let's begin with Doctor Who Magazine, as The Doctor came back with a bang this Christmas. Here's our traditional Lew Stringer strip:
There was also a multi-part strip featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna (in between the TV stories The Star Beast and The Wild Blue Yonder) bouncing around in time, appearing at a Morecambe and Wise Christmas show...
(RIP Glenda Jackson)
...and at a young Donna Noble's Nativity performance:
To Fulchester now for a quick run through of Viz strips.
(RIP Annabelle Giles)
Not much festive in 200AD this year but there is this:
Now for a cluster of my favourite Private Eye cartoons of the Christmas issue:
To The Beano then, where this year's running plot concerns a rogue elf who abandons his North Pole post to hang in Beanotown and Santa gives chase.
This year's Beano Christmas Special featured the town being stuck in a Groundhog Day style time loop, which soon gets boring (hey, like that Xmas episode of Lois and Clark: Twas the Night Before Mxymas!)
I've saved till last a new treat this year, as we now have a new regular UK comic: Monster Fun!
Yes, after a few specials to test the market, Rebellion resurrected the classic comic with some old favourites given a new spin. Here are some highlights of the Xmas issue.
A particular delight is a new version of Worldwide Weirdies, as originated by the great Ken Reid.
That's it for this year. Have a great 2024 and who knows, I might actually be able to put out some new blogs (crosses fingers, touches wood).
