Preview: THE COR!! BUSTER HUMOUR SPECIAL

I was going to wait until the weekend before publication to reveal more images from this special but as there are already websites showing a fair bit of it I thought I'd post this discreet preview now. I'm just showing extracts from a few of the strips, which I've cropped to resemble torn clippings. (So, no, I haven't ripped up my copy. It's far too good to do that to it!) 

Since buying the rights to the classic characters, Rebellion have produced a number of excellent reprint books, and that will continue with some absolute crackers lined up for this year and next. They've also ventured into reviving titles with all-new material, as the two Scream and Misty Specials have shown, and this year there will be more, - with The Cor!! Buster Humour Special being the next in line, arriving in shops on the 17th April.

The 52 page full-colour comic has its own distinct identity, featuring strips by creators old and new. Here's a few snippets... 

I'm sure one of the highlights for everyone will be the return of Sweeny Toddler by one of its original artists, Tom Paterson! A brilliant strip back in the day, and if anything this new three page episode is even better than the old strips!

There's a new look for Kid Kong, courtesy of Alec Worley on script, and Tiernen Trevallion on art. If you loved Tiernen's work on the recent Black Max revival, Fiends of the Western Front, in 2000AD, this is an unexpected change of subject matter for the artist but he accomplishes humour as well as he handles grim horror! 

Gums is back, by Lizzie Boyle and Abigail Bulmer. A superb looking strip, modernising the toothless shark for the 21st Century. 

Deadly Hedley is back too! The Vampire Detective from Buster of old in a new strip by Paul Goodenough and Neil Googe. Looking good! 

I've drawn a new three-pager, written by John Freeman, called Who's In Charge?, which unites a bunch of classic characters such as Sid's Snake, Cheeky, Joker, Bad Penny, and Buster himself. I've also put in a bunch of cameos by various vintage characters too. See who you can spot! 

Other all-new strips include X-Ray Specs, Ivor Lott and Tony Broke, Frankie Stein, and more, but for me the one I was most excited about was the return of... Grimly Feendish! Yes, "The Rottenest Crook in the World" from Wham! and Smash! is back, and drawn by Tom Paterson who was surely born to illustrate this character! I really hope we see more of Grimly drawn by Tom in the future. The character deserves his own special! 

The Cor!! Buster Humour Special will be in WH Smith, comic shops, and selected newsagents from 17th April, priced £4.99. Don't miss it! 

Cover by Neil Googe.

As an exclusive to this blog, I thought you might like to see a panel of mine from the Who's In Charge? strip as my original art looked in the inking stage and how it looked after I coloured it (and Leila O'Millar lettered it). You'll note that I added the solid blacks when I coloured it too, along with the old comic covers. Also, I removed the TV set as it was redundant to the story. (It was part of a previous draft of the script, and wasn't needed for the finished version.) 

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