The Annual contained a few nice surprises. I will start with the episode of Kid
Kong by Frank McDiarmid. I can’t remember ever seeing another one by
him before. The story isn’t particularly original: it’s almost Christmas and
Kid has no money for Gran’s present so he takes a job with the post office.
This is the third MF Annual with Kid Kong facing a cash problem before X-mas, and
the second time he takes a postie’s job to solve it, but Mr. McDiarmid’s work really makes
it shine:
After
all the chaos and destruction, everybody’s happy in the end:
There
are two episodes of Freaky Farm in this Annual, neither by the regular artist
Jim Watson. In the first one Jousting Society hold a tournament on Farmer’s
land. Artwork by Russel Brooke. Here is the first page:
The
four-pager by Ian Knox is my favourite one:
And
finally, here’s a set of The Little Monsters by Martin
Baxendale who clearly took a few lessons from his Dad. There are two installments of the feature in this
Annual and the other one is called The Little
Monsters Down on the Farm! Make sure you click on the image below to enlarge it and have fun examining all the fine detail!
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