The Doughnut of Doom - preview

Thank you, yes, it was my finest performance.

Seriously ?

I think I overdid it.

Go on, you’ll be so ripe afterwards.

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Help!

A mugger!

Sure! I’m so hungry I’m happy to help.

STO P FOLLOWING ME!

My name’s Nancy McNutty, trainee reporter.

I was just a peanut butter sandwich trying to get my big break in a tough world.

But it wasn’t proving easy.

Especially with a boss like Big Cheese.

It wasn’t what I wanted at all!

That’s crackers! dodg y is going on at Lemon Labs. Their experiments

You need to stick to something more your level, Nancy.

There’s a grapefruit fun run

are out of control! Just let

going on downtown.

me go and investigate. I’ve

Go and cover that.

But I’m sure something

got a man on the inside!

D id someone say my name?

But then the phone rang. It was Marvin, my sauce at Lemon Labs.

Yeah. We hired this new

Hey , Nancy!

It’s Marv.

O h yeah?

guy , Professor Nutcase,

We’re having

to turn around the

some problems

SUPERFOOD programme.

down at the labs.

Turns out he’s crazy.

Who’d have thought?!

Something’s going wrong with one of his experiments . . .

. . . VERY WRONG !

Come on, Marvin. I need more

You’d better just

information. What’s the story here?

come down and see . . . before it’s too late!

The situation sounded serious so I knew I had to get to Lemon Labs – FAST!

But I was just too late.

Where’s Gary?

We’ve made a big mistake!

We must inform the president!

It just kept growing! And now it’s huge. It’s sticky ,

So you must be Professor Nutcase.

it’s out of control – it’s a MONSTER! I only wanted to do a few experiments! I gave him some frosting and he just ate and ate and ate. Look , he finished the entire tub!

This seemed like the story of a lifetime so I decided to follow the destruction and track this monster down.

I needed to catch up with the monster but there was already panic amongst the citizens.

So, I hitched a lift through the crowd.

Out of the way!

I’m a celebrity!

Yeah, sure, Nancy!

Hey , Honey! Can I get a lift to the barricade?

This destruction has to be stopped.

Don’t worry , Mr President , we’ll talk to it. The monster won’t eat the police – we’re far too Sugary.

And if it tries, we’ll take it into custardy.

Could this day get any worse?

I hear it’s

Eating food?

EATING FOOD!

That’s preposterous!

And FINALLY I saw it . . .