This year’s Beano and The Dandy Summer Specials, the latter collecting Jamie Smart ’s “ Desperate Dan ” strips, are out in late May. Both are available to preorder now from the DC Thomson web shop.

"The Handmaid’s Tale" began as a novel read by several generations and has been turned into a film and an opera. Then, beginning in 2017, a hit series on Hulu that is now coming to its conclusion.