This week’s BEANO – this year’s Hallowe’en issue – is a great edition to pick up this week for any kids you are trying to get interested in comics. The Hallowe’en theme is carried out throughout, with monsters and mummies and all sorts of horrific goings-on.
![Beano – Issue 4108: Night of the Were-Minx - cover by Laura Howell](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5196-713x1024.jpg)
This issue features “The Beano All-Stars” by Nigel “Afterlife” Auchterlounie and Nigel “Nightmare” Parkinson. Minnie the Minx facing her greatest fear, by Andy “Phantom” Fanton and Laura “Howwwl” Howell, and a Dennis story by “Nigel Auchter-boo-nie” and “Nigel Pumkin-son”. It’s always good to see Hunt (“Haunt”) Emerson on the back page, as well.
![Beano – Issue 4108 - Minnie the Minx](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5197-1024x483.jpg)
![Beano – Issue 4108 - Spook Bashers](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5198-1024x365.jpg)
![Beano – Issue 4108 - Bash Street Kids](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5199-1024x316.jpg)
![Beano – Issue 4108 - Bananaman](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5200-1024x316.jpg)
![Beano – Issue 4108 - Dennis and Gnasher](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5201-1024x641.jpg)
It’s a perfect issue to see what is going on in BEANO these days, really inventive and funny. Perhaps that’s why its been increasing sales, year on year.
It might not be the BEANO you remember, but it’s just as well written and drawn and aimed at kids with different expectations. And if you’ve no kids to buy it for, well, just buy it for yourself! It’s still a great read!
Peter Duncan
• BEANO is on sale in all good newsagents and available on subscription from BEANO.com
![](https://downthetubes.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Peter-Duncan-150x150.jpg)
Peter Duncan is editor of Sector 13, Belfast’s 2000AD fanzine and Splank! – an anthology of strips inspired by the Odhams titles, Wham!, Smash! and Pow! He’s also writer of Cthulhu Kids. Full details of his comics activities can be found at www.boxofrainmag.co.uk
Categories: British Comics, Comics, downthetubes Comics News, downthetubes News, Features, Reviews
I think you missed part of the preview out, the picture shows Har-Har’s Joke Shop, but the caption is Bananaman.