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Comicdom, if experiencing the same rate of attrition of classic cars as the real world, will one day run out of 40's "lead sleds" for Superman to lift up.

What a great issue..very funny loved Pre Skool Prime Minster...so absurd...what mad science..

Bone O.very dark...hose cats with a dead women...psycho reference...

liked seeing Kylie...

loved Bras Neck
what a funny issue...and finishing off with fun Dan..

No George vs Dragon, but at least Andy had Hippo in there this week.

Confirmation by the way, next week's the last of the meerkats!

Bras Neck

trying to beat Viz at their own game?

As an aside selecting the laughing smiley looks very creepy.

felneymike wrote:

Bras Neck

trying to beat Viz at their own game?

Bra-based humour used to be quite common in the Beano - especially in early 21st century Ball Boy and Bea (you know the sort of scripts I mean).

enjoyed harry & his hippo this week with bully beef pushing chips into the pool & seeing beryl the peril & bananaman in there as well

Black Bob and Grampire were there too.

Glad you enjoyed the cameo-filled Harry and his Hippo! I think that with Harry himself being a classic character, it'd make sense that he still hangs around with some of the others! Plus, any old excuse to draw some of my old favourites!

Cheers!

I've got a new strip starting in this week's Dandy: Tiny's Temper. A very different style and feel to my previous effort, Justin Beaver, with no retro characters.

I'm hoping it goes down well, but to celebrate here's a list of every retro DC Thompson character that appeared in Justin Beaver:

- Korky The Cat x 8
- Marvo The Wonder Chicken
- Beryl The Peril x 4
- Bully Beef
- Brassneck
- Olly the Octopus from Desert Island Dick x 2
- Foxy x 2
- Pop (from Pop, Dick & Harry)
- Dragon (from George Vs Dragon) x 4
- Julias Cheezer
- Hungry Hoss x 5 (once as 'David Hasslehorse')
- Freddy the Fearless Fly
- Tiny (as Justin's agent, most weeks after issue 3533)
- Bear Thrills
- Buurd
- Bananaman
- Desperate Dan
- Bash Street School
- Gnasher
- Sting (As 'Bee-yonce)
- Minnie The Minx
- Toots
- A Tom Patterson stinky sock

I even managed to sneak in Oddball from Fleetway's Whizzer & Chips...

So, was the Tiny's Temper art supposed to look like that, then? An unexpectedly small title bar, perhaps?

Don't have the issue yet, but are you saying it's stretched?

It is slightly stretched, but I submitted it that way to fit the page. A slight miscalculation with the scale!

I'm not sure why the title is smaller than usual, I assume to make the most of the comic (as with Mr. Meecher). I'm pleased with the way it looks, though. I've loved drawing this strip.

I haven't stetched the rest of the run, I drew them at a different scale.

It looks fine Stu. Nice job!

The size if the title banner isn't set in stone anyway, as several other strips have shorter banners too.

I wonder if the big banner ones were always destined for Dandy, but the shorter banner ones, like Sea Dogs, were submitted before DCT decided which comic to put them in (Beano and BeanoMAX being the alternatives)?

One Joe Jitsu strip in the Beano had Dandytown written on a building, thus revealing that it must've been a late decision to put it in Beano instead of Dandy. I can't see that being the only example, it's just the most obvious.

Thingummyblob of course is an exception, being designed for the 2004-2007 era Dandy (originally unused due to the Xtreme relaunch) and thus not being designed with the current graphical template in mind.

There are a couple of exceptions to this - Johnny Bean originally had a big title banner, but as far as I know he was always intended to be in the Beano. Also, most Billy Whizz strips since 1992 have had a title banner, apart from the Graeme Hall stories, although even then he did draw some title banners.

For the most part though, I think you're right. Most Beano strips have usually had a box title panel (for example, Minnie, Roger and nowadays the Bash Street Kids, though they used to have different titles every week, sometimes including banners).

It's interesting what you say about Joe Jitsu - I actually think his strip would have been a better fit in the Dandy than the Beano. but it seems odd that the strip was not changed - there was no particular reference to the nursery being in Dandytown, suggesting that if was meant to be in the Dandy then the script wasn't changed.