Digifiend wrote:Dandy Productions for the Marvo the Wonder Chicken series.
Completely missed this one!
Think'll have to do some research now...
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Digifiend wrote:Dandy Productions for the Marvo the Wonder Chicken series.
It's extremely poor in my opinion. Plus it never properly aired in the UK for some reason. It's on Disney XD I think...TwoHeadedBoy wrote:Digifiend wrote:Dandy Productions for the Marvo the Wonder Chicken series.
Completely missed this one!
Think'll have to do some research now...
Really? I've just watched the episode 'Bungee Jump Blues' and thought it very lively. Some laugh out loud moments in that one in my opinion.WizzKid97 wrote:It's very dull - such a shame really.
I think it's honestly all down to the episodes you watch - I watched two which I found incredibly mediocre.Lew Stringer wrote:Really? I've just watched the episode 'Bungee Jump Blues' and thought it very lively. Some laugh out loud moments in that one in my opinion.WizzKid97 wrote:It's very dull - such a shame really.
Waverley Books Tweeted that it will be "less heavy but packed with quality" so don't expect the format to be the same as the weighty Beano one.big bad bri wrote:I missed out on the beano book but thanfully got it in a discount book store last year but i will definetly buy this from amazon or somewhere & if we all pre order it those poor postman will hate us for them having to carry thosse heavyweights
I hope I'm wrong but I really can't see them doing individual books about comics that haven't been around for years. One book about the "Fun Factory", covering everything, would be nice though.big bad bri wrote:I would like to see similar books for beezer,topper & sparky & then perhaps 1 volume for DCT short lived titles such as nutty,cracker & plug.I want that complete johnah beano/Dandy strips book as well.
That is disappointing news. If ever there was a case to be made for the histories of two comics to be published as a matching pair, The Dandy and The Beano would provide it.Lew Stringer wrote:Waverley Books Tweeted that it will be "less heavy but packed with quality" so don't expect the format to be the same as the weighty Beano one.
I agree. Any such histories, however desirable they may be, would have to be produced by enthusiasts, at their own expense.Lew Stringer wrote:I hope I'm wrong but I really can't see them doing individual books about comics that haven't been around for years.
I presume it's down to economics. It's been four years since that Beano one and production costs would now be higher. Better to have a book out that's within customer's affordable budgets than one that'd gather dust on the shelves of bookshops.Phoenix wrote:That is disappointing news. If ever there was a case to be made for the histories of two comics to be published as a matching pair, The Dandy and The Beano would provide it.Lew Stringer wrote:Waverley Books Tweeted that it will be "less heavy but packed with quality" so don't expect the format to be the same as the weighty Beano one.
I'm sure that's the case but, given that the concept of this history of The Dandy, a 75th anniversary celebration of Thomsons' first born comic, is similar to that of The Beano, which celebrated 70 years of fun, and that we are being promised an equally quality-packed volume, I can only hope that the similarity in historical importance of these two iconic comics is reflected in an equally chunky volume for The Dandy, even if the promised reduction in weight simply means that it has fewer pages. Needless to say, I will buy it anyway, regardless of its shape or size, but I will be very disappointed, as will most other enthusiasts I'm sure, if the resulting volume is similar to that of the annual The Beano and The Dandy and the Oor Wullie and The Broons retrospectives. Even in the long history of comics The Dandy is massive. It stands proud and deserves a celebratory volume to match.Lew Stringer wrote:I presume it's down to economics. It's been four years since that Beano one and production costs would now be higher. Better to have a book out that's within customer's affordable budgets than one that'd gather dust on the shelves of bookshops.