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As you might know, it was The Beano that partly inspired Nick Park as a boy - he wanted to become a Beano artist, which accounts for all his sketching, the original way in which he developed Wallace and Gromit. Therefore it is of great excitement when The Beano and Wallace and Gromit link up!
They did it once before, when Nick Park edited the 70th Birthday issue of the Beano, and this time they teamed up for another Birthday - Wallace and Gromit’s 20th!
This issue comes with its own ‘pullout mini-comic’ - and it’s important to note that by comic they don’t mean comic strip. Instead you get a mini-magazine really, complete with a short interview with Nick Park (the full version can be read here: http://www.beanotown.com/index.php?id=159 - and I do question how much is Nick’s words, for someone who didn’t know what a blog was he seems unusually quick to point readers to the official site!), a pretty tricky spot the difference, a competition (with great prizes), a Grand Day Out ‘picture story’ (laid out as pictures but has text to explain the storyline) and finally a page of (highly interesting!) facts and figures about ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’.
Perhaps even more exciting is this issue’s ‘Bash Street Kids’ comic, where an original Wallace model goes missing (New York anyone?) and the Bash Street kids use the original Q Bikes kit to save the day. There are lots of nice points to the story, such as a photo of Nick on the wall that reacts to the storyline, and an appearance from W&G themselves at the end, and overall it’s a good, fun read.
All in all for £1.35 I think you’re getting a collectable piece of Wallace and Gromit history, with enough features to make it worth any fan buying it. Cracking comic!
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