This week's issue Take 2

[Digifiend]

It's on the issue preview, so read it here: http://www.beano.com/beano-comic/issue-3610

Good job they did include it in the preview actually, as the description doesn't mention it.

[WizzKid97]

Looks like Super School has made it's long awaited return. Has it replaced the Freddie Fear reprints?

If so I'm not too bothered because I would rather have more new material in The Beano.

I'm glad Super School is back (hopefully to stay!) but sad to say Freddie Fear gone despite it being reprints as I love Freddie Fear. I hope they both appear and are both brand new rather than reprints.

One question that's on my mind at the moment is what if the Beano run out of Number 13 and The Germs reprints and they prove to be popular? Obviously a new artist will have to take them on, but who do you think it would be?

I reckon Barrie Appleby will draw Number 13 but if someone had to draw it I'd rather have Nigel Parkinson any day! The Germs will most likely be drawn by Dave Sutherland meaning he'll stop drawing Fred's Bed and pass it on to Nigel or Laura perhaps?

[swirlythingy]

Definitely good to see Super School back, and not at the expense of anything else either (barring the Beano's most blatent reprint ever). I wish it hadn't brought its colouring clangers back with it, though... just look at the first and penultimate panels to see what I mean. After all the progress the Beano's made in the last year, that's really disappointing.

Did anyone else recognise this week's Bash Street Kids strip? It definitely rang quite a few bells for me, not just in the storyline but even in the dialogue (such as "I don't know! Did you ever try to teach them trigonometry?"). Recycled script or reprint? Does anyone know where and when it was first printed?

[Digifiend]

If it's a recycled script, it might have been redrawn. Cuthbert using a peashooter is very out of character. Can't remember that happening before.

[Tin Can Tommy]

One question that's on my mind at the moment is what if the Beano run out of Number 13 and The Germs reprints and they prove to be popular? Obviously a new artist will have to take them on, but who do you think it would be?

I reckon Barrie Appleby will draw Number 13 but if someone had to draw it I'd rather have Nigel Parkinson any day! The Germs will most likely be drawn by Dave Sutherland meaning he'll stop drawing Fred's Bed and pass it on to Nigel or Laura perhaps?

I doubt thats gonna happen both strips lasted for at least ten years in their original forms so they are not gonna run out of material for at least a decade and by then who knows?

God forbid the Beano may even have ended or gone online only by then and they'll have had the 4000th issue by then and the comic may have changed quite a bit by then dave sutherland may have stopped working as an artist and maybe they'd have whole new batch (this sounds quite dehumanising) of both artists and characters or become more like the modern Dandy.

as you can see from the above quote my mind went off on a what'll the Beano be like in ten years tangent maybe thats worth its own thread.

[Jonny Whizz]

I was happy to see Super School make a return this week and I'm glad it's back in the comic again. In this week's issue, I also really liked the Billy Whizz, Meebo and Zuky, Pup Parade and Roger stories.

I personally don't mind Super School replacing Freddie Fear reprints. I would like to see more new Freddie Fear strips, but I felt that reprinting the older ones was odd, not because I can remember them first time around (I've been reading the Beano for a long time and I'm above its intended age range), but because of the change of style in the meantime. If Freddie doesn't come back, I'd actually quite like Dave Eastbury to have a go at another strip, maybe an all-new one, as I personally don't think his artwork gets the recognition it deserves.

I doubt Number 13 or The Germs will switch to new stories any time soon. The only story the Beano has reprinted the full run of in recent years was Fred's Bed, bar the final Beezer and Topper strip, so I'd be surprised if the whole back catalogue of strips was used. If they wanted a new artist for The Germs other than David Sutherland, I'm sure Nigel Parkinson could do it as he did draw three strips around 2004 or so.

[Lew Stringer]

Just dropped by to say thanks all for the kind words about Super School. Pleased to hear it's well received. I'm not sure when it'll be back on a regular basis though. Hope to receive new scripts soon.

[Gilly]

No problem Lew

I'm sorry to hear that Super School is still not yet a regular feature as I have always been a big fan of your work. I hope to see more of it in The Beano soon.

[Digifiend]

Did anyone else recognise this week's Bash Street Kids strip? It definitely rang quite a few bells for me, not just in the storyline but even in the dialogue (such as "I don't know! Did you ever try to teach them trigonometry?"). Recycled script or reprint? Does anyone know where and when it was first printed?

This has been identified as a recycled Winker Watson script from the 2009 Dandy Annual.

[Lew Stringer]

No problem Lew

I'm sorry to hear that Super School is still not yet a regular feature as I have always been a big fan of your work. I hope to see more of it in The Beano soon.

Thanks Gilly. They have one strip in stock so that should be used soon hopefully, and I've just received another script that I'll be drawing next week so more Super School to come!

[Peter Gray]

Thats good news.now you just need to draw two pages in The Dandy every week..

[Raven]

Good to see D.C. Thomson living up to their reputation for being cutting edge and contemporary with a parody of Jaws on this week's cover.

Oh well, the gag's only thirty-six years out of date ...

Next week: Gnasher in a parody of Dog Day Afternoon?

[Digifiend]

I like that cover. Looks less cluttered without the This Week in Beanotown bit. And Jaws isn't some obscure B-movie, kids will know of it, so I don't see how the joke is dated.

[Jonny Whizz]

I agree about the covers, I prefer ones that have a clear main image rather than being cluttered. I agree about the Jaws joke as well, I'm sure plenty of kids will get that one.

[Raven]

And Jaws isn't some obscure B-movie, kids will know of it, so I don't see how the joke is dated.

Well, it's parodying the film poster for one of the big films of 1975.

Most of its readers will have been born around 2003!