‘Monster Fun’ Goes Monthly With A Dino-Scare Special: Perfect Kid’s Comics Right Here

by Richard Bruton

More Monsters, More Fun, as the all-new, all-ages Monster Fun comic goes monthly – full of fabulous strips, full of wonderful comedy…

It’s a ‘Dino-Scare Special’ in this first monthly issue, featuring all the characters & the creators that have made the comic a success so far – so it’s time to enjoy a good Dino-packed issue with the likes of Kid Kong, Gums, Hell’s Angel, Steel Commando, Martha’s Monster Make-Up and more!

First, three examples of what makes Monster Fun such, well, fun.

First up there’s The Feek and Brett Parsons‘ take on Gums, one of the great old Monster Fun characters, the shark with the false teeth. Chucked back in time through a conveniently placed black monolith (it’s all a bit 2001!) it’s all gone a bit weird and yes,”those dogs look a bit big… and weird!”

As you’d expect, a single page of brilliant, nonsensical stuff – and Parson’s does have a great way of doing so much character in his faces, no matter who or what they are.

Next, Kid Kong by Alec Worley and Karl Dixon, who go the strange portal route as well with Kid Kong to zap – or rather ‘BURP!’ – him back into dino-times. But just like in Gums, the way he gets there, ridiculous as it may be, is immaterial, it’s all in the how and most particularly all in the wonderful goofiness that Monster Fun does so well, every bit echoing the classics that these characters come from.

All of which means this…

Yes, the wonderfully gormless expressions on Kid Kong‘s face, the wonderful madness of the very idea of Gran’s time-travel scooter, it’s all just loads of fun.

And then, once they do get back to prehistoric times there’s another couple of magnificent Dixon moments, the body language, the use of the lettering effects, and then this… just super expressive seeing the Triceratops’ expression…

It’s three pages long, giving Worley and Dixon loads of time to pile on the gags, something they both do so gloriously.

And finally, there’s the always excellent Hell’s Angel by Chris Garbutt – incredibly bright and energetic cartooning, an absolute damn joy in here, laughs-a-plenty in every panel. There’s a lot of Baxendale in what Garbutt does and that’s the highest praise I can give for a humour comic. For a start, there’s no kid’s comic that isn’t made better with a bit of toilet humour, so “Ivor Front-Bottom in Little Ploppington” is just perfect. And then there’s that wonderful facial expression of Big D and that thoroughly cheesed off “I never agreed to do this…” Glorious – It’s hilarious and it’s clever and it’s just perfectly done…