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| Issue 120 of Epic - Cover |
This month, I decided to go ahead and purchase a digital copy of the magazine, for £2.49 (which is 50p cheaper than buying an in-store edition priced at £2.99)
The reason I chose the digital version was because the gifts this month are a prank pen, toxic slime and some sweet I've never heard of (which I know I won't like). All of these gifts would just go in the bin so I didn't see any purpose in paying extra for them.
However, the magazine sure is hard to read online - text is too small so having to zoom in then zoom out to read the next part of something, with the zoom feature not always working properly.
Before I get onto the review, one more thing - I paid £5 for a 6 month (6 issues) subscription to Epic Magazine, as I won £15 within two competitions; Doritos Stick or Kick and McDonald's Monopoly 2016. I am yet to bank both cheques.
Okay, I've said enough - onto the review!:
I will this month just list the contents and leave my review beneath the content list.
1: Front Cover
2,3,4 & 5: Epic News
6 & 7: Top 10 Nexo Powers
8 & 9: Avengers Biggest Battles
10 & 11: Brilliant Booby Traps (Minecraft)
12 & 13: Top 10 Star Trek Coolest Aliens
14 & 15: Mixeled Up (Puzzle)
15: Dennis and Gnasher (No 'The Menace' in Dennis's title again)
16: My Dad's A Doofus
17: Lego Ninjago Competition
18 & 19: The Epic Mario Quiz
20 & 21: Ghostbusters Spooky Secrets
22: Epic Stuff (Page to promote latest 'gadgets')
23: Poster (Ghostbusters poster with Minecraft style ghost, titled a "Ghast")
24: Mario Poster
25: Batman Poster
26: Minecraft "Keep Calm And Eat Cake" poster
27: DANTDM's (Links to videos)
28 & 29: Epic Gaming - Minecraft, Plants VS Zombies Garden Warfare 2 and Fifa 16
30 & 31: 6 Reasons The Freemaker Adventures Rocks, Win Lego Star Wars
32: Footy Fouls
33: Football Competition
34: Epic subscription advert
35: Minecraft jokes
36: The Secret Life of Pets Sausage Search (Puzzle)
37: Danger Mouse Magazine Advert
38: The Grossery Gang and Shaun The Sheep Puzzle Putt (Both half page adverts)
39: Lego Dimensions Competition
40 & 41: Lego Ninjago VS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
42 & 43: Wallace & Gromit
44: Oh My Glob (Crazy Facts)
45: Minecraft Competition
46: Cartoon Network Puzzles
47: Next Issue (Pictured below)
48: Fur Wars (Star Wars parody poster)
49: The Beano 14 Day Free Trial Advert (I think this may have been an add-on for the digital issue because I can't see a physical copy containing over 48 pages)
50: Blank Page (yes this really does appear in the digital edition - must be an error)
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Overall, this issue seems disappointing to me. One page of Dennis and Gnasher, and I thought two pages was bad last month.
Most of the issue was movie and gaming content, of which I'd buy Mega, Toxic or 110% Gaming if I wanted all this. I know DC Thomson are trying to copy Toxic, but I don't think they should be.
I've already ordered the subscription stated earlier in this blog post, but it saddens me to say I don't think I'll be considering continuing purchasing this title if it doesn't improve within those 6 months, and buy that I mean bring more Beano content in the magazine than just one or two pages.
It seems, unfortunately, the main priority DC Thomson are focusing on are the free gifts and movie/gaming content for this specific publication. "All this EPIC stuff for just £2.99!" (followed by a list of the gifts) clearly shows DCT (DC Thomson) are trying to make the gifts stand out.
One of the reasons the price has been dropped from £3.99 (sometimes £4.99) to £2.99, I am assuming, is due to lack of sales (I have seen the recently announced sales figures). I am not stating this as a fact but purely what I think. If they improved the magazine, I'm quite confident they would boost the sales total a bit.
I give this issue a 2/5 total rating, due to the small amount of comic strip content compared to all of the movie and gaming content included.
Thank you for reading my review.
-Andrew.
