You criticisms of Dandy Xtreme don't hold much water if you haven't read it Rab. As I said earlier, British comics have always followed a contemporary formula (tramps, naughty schoolkids, spies, etc). They used to encourage artists to draw in a "house style" too (imitate Roy Wilson or Leo Baxendale) but that's certainly not true of today's Dandy. (It wasn't true of The Dandy 45 years ago either to be fair.) I doubt you'd like it (but as it is targeted for children you're not expected to), but it might be worth actually looking at it before you dismiss it as "samey".ISPYSHHHGUY wrote: THOMSON have the dilemma that much of their output is formulaic-----and this is what many readers prefer------and I'm certainly not knocking a winning formula, and I don't blame DCT for putting out a lot of 'samey' stuff, and to their credit, their strips have always shown genuine invention [in the main].
How many Baxendale clones were there in the 60s and 70s? But few people complained......perhaps today with so much rapid-fire imagery on the web and on TV, people are just tired of the non-stop bombardment of visuals from all quarters, and it gets more difficult to impress viewers/ readers.......
We're going around in circles now so this will be my final post on the matter.
Lew