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- 10 Apr 2011, 16:47
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
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Re: This week's issue
Phoenix is right. If I wanted Lego, I'd pop down to the toyshop and buy Lego. I wouldn't pop down to the newsagents and buy a weekly humour anthology comic aimed at 7-12 year olds of both genders. Admittedly, there is a page increase, but it's only 8 more pages (and let us not forget, the last time ...
- 30 Mar 2011, 16:34
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Ivy has a new artist
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27925
Re: Ivy has a new artist
Oh, and don't forget Super School - although admittedly that's been unofficially cancelled for several months now.
- 30 Mar 2011, 00:20
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
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Re: This week's issue
Oh, come on, I'm sure you can guess.
- 28 Mar 2011, 22:55
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: Ivy has a new artist
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27925
Re: Ivy has a new artist
Tragic news, especially with the strip so recently rescued from reprints, but unfortunately inevitable. Considering that one of Digby's first actions as editor was to cancel Calamity James, a strip created by his predecessor Kerr, it's hardly surprising that upon assuming the mantle Stirling didn't ...
- 28 Mar 2011, 22:49
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
Agreed wholeheartedly - especially about Dennis shedding more of his big-hearted fun-loving kid brainwash every week. The Beano has definitely got better - if I was to take a strip from this time last year I'd be able to pick out a real discernible improvement. After its all-time low point in mid 20...
- 28 Mar 2011, 18:38
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
Quality is relative. Back in the dark days of Dandy Xtreme, the Beano was easily the best by a mile. Then the Dandy relaunched, and now the Beano is easily the worst by a mile, in spite of the fact it's barely changed (and, when the Dandy is taken out of the equation, is something of an improvement ...
- 23 Mar 2011, 11:04
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: They've done it again!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5429
They've done it again!
Bleeding muppets!
Reckon they're going for three weeks before anyone spots it?
Reckon they're going for three weeks before anyone spots it?
- 22 Mar 2011, 21:44
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
Why would the Beano appear a day early at Euston, anyway? Is that even officially legal? Does retailers of the Beano have any statutory obligations? Aren't some magazines always available a day earlier in That London? I'm sure the NME and Private Eye are anyway. Hah, as a person living in That Lond...
- 22 Mar 2011, 21:41
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
I've had a quick flick through all the 1976 Beanos, except issue 1753 dated Feb 21 1976 which I can't find, but which can be seen here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=230583018021. None of the issues I looked at have any reference to Dennis' 25th anniversary on the cover (di...
- 22 Mar 2011, 21:18
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
managed to get this weeks issue a day early at euston stn & it has the same issue numbering as last weeks 3577 :( ...Maybe it is last week's issue? :lol: Why would the Beano appear a day early at Euston, anyway? Is that even officially legal? Does retailers of the Beano have any statutory obligatio...
- 22 Mar 2011, 21:12
- Forum: Dandy
- Topic: Some 40s Dandy covers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6407
Re: Some 40s Dandy covers
Ah, the traditional Christmas sight of a cat riding a bicycle.
Who got the job of writing the weekly four line verse? Also, why - or were you simply nothing in the 30s and 40s if your product wasn't advertised in McGonagall-esque poetry? (Billy Brown of London Town springs to mind.)
Who got the job of writing the weekly four line verse? Also, why - or were you simply nothing in the 30s and 40s if your product wasn't advertised in McGonagall-esque poetry? (Billy Brown of London Town springs to mind.)
- 20 Mar 2011, 14:47
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
I "carefully snipped" the irrelevant parts to focus on the bit where you doubted the information I gave you. If someone tells you something you don't know, why respond with "if it's true" ? I think you really need to learn a bit more on the subjects you're posting about before you wade in with your...
- 20 Mar 2011, 14:15
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
I may have preferred vintage strips myself - I certainly liked it when Whizzer and Chips did a pull out (and fold over) of the first issue over several weeks for an anniversary, and generally liked anything historical, and if four to six of those pages were reprint anyway ... Quite. As I said, ther...
- 19 Mar 2011, 13:20
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
Therefore if they're as keen on Beano history as you say they'd love the classic pages, yes? My point was: if they're as keen on Beano history as I say they'll probably have already seen a lot of them. Even if what you say about not celebrating anniversaries of individual stories is true (I can't c...
- 19 Mar 2011, 01:24
- Forum: Beano
- Topic: This week's issue
- Replies: 378
- Views: 89839
Re: This week's issue
Nothing special except for a third of the comic? Sounds pretty special to me. Aren't "ancient reprints" a good way to celebrate sixty years? I doubt the 7 to 10 year olds the comic is mainly aimed at will have seen those before so it's an ideal way to demonstrate how the strip has evolved. In a wor...