The Beano Annual #2016

The Beano Annual 2016 arrives in fine chaotic fashion, with Dennis the Menace front and centre — grinning ear to ear alongside Gnasher — while a rollercoaster packed with a crowd of familiar Beano faces loops overhead and a caped figure zooms through the sky above. Published by D.C. Thomson in 2015, this bumper hardback collection rounds up the mischief and mayhem that has kept British kids laughing for generations. At £7.99 it's a generous helping of comic fun, and that cover alone promises the kind of joyful pandemonium only Beano can deliver.