Viz Annual 2023: The Zookeeper's Boot

by Viz Magazine

A stroll through well-trodden material mucked out of issues 292-301

Genres: Humor, Comics

220 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Viz is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with extensive profanity, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and generally sexual or violent storylines. It also sends up tabloid newspapers, with mockeries of articles and letters pages.

Reviews

[Jono Carney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as funny as it used to be…

[Ray Smillie · Rating 3 out of 5]

These days I only buy the Christmas issue of Viz, a tradition akin to me only buying the Christmas/New Year Radio Times. Both are usually a bit of a letdown. They have their moments but you have to trawl through some guff on the way. Tbh, I expected this annual to be a similar experience and thus it proved to be. Not as funny as it used to be but they know that.

[Steven Haythorne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This might sound really sad but I was severely put off by one particular piece in which 'of ' was written after 'could, would and should '. If you think things like this don't matter you're wrong, they really do.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still raises a chuckle in parts.

[Charles James · Rating 3 out of 5]

annual loo read . A mixture of the brilliant (Climate Emergency Game and Prince Andrew Souvenir Pizza Express Plate ) and mundane . Overall worth reading , but lots of almost funny cartoons.

[Chez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I giggled a lot. I had to get my reading glasses out though cos some of the print was small, which made me feel quite old.