How many Christmas traditions can we fit into today’s advent cover? Well, there’s Santa, and chimneys, and mistletoe, and giant mallets… Wait, that’s not a Christmas tradition in the States…?Who remembers Wacky Squirrel? Admittedly, almost no-one, which is a shame; as Jim Bradrick’s cover to #2 suggests, this tribute to old Warner Bros cartoons and their ilk had a real charm, even if that charm was as subtle as a mallet to Santa’s head. But it’s slapstick! That’s what slapstick is meant to be like. Now I’m going to wonder what Jim Bradrick has been up to in the 20+ years since this was released…

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