Beefy and Chips Batman style

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Beefy and Chips Batman style

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http://the-slipper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/ ... dandy.html
Batman Incorporated volume 2 issue 3 includes two characters who look very familiar...
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The artist is Chris Burnham and the writer is Grant Morrison.

The blog post is from September.

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Bearing in mind the number of British comic characters who turned up in Morrison's Zenith I'd guess the resemblance is anything but coincidental.

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It's definitely a deliberate reference - their names are Bully and Fry - and of course, chips are also called fries.

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Wow, perhaps this is what the Dandy would have looked like if Marvel / DC started it off!?

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