This weeks Dandy

[big bad bri]

dunno if i like the new front cover logo yet or even if its permanent but i have to say the art style of bananaman is growing on me having loved the skeleton jumping out of his skin and i loved seeing the original brassneck in the glass case.the dandy artists and beano for that matter should try and sneak in classic characters every week though a few of the dandy artists seem to do it as often as they can.Still hate the big covers though.

[Digifiend]

That front cover logo has been used on Twitter and Facebook since a month or two after the revamp last year, so it's not new. It was also used on the free Sunday Post issue a week and a half ago. It may not be permanent, as the other logo was used on the back cover and elsewhere in this week's issue.

[felneymike]

They may be planning to alter the logo depending on how it fits with that week's cover design. Practical Performance Car have two different ones that they use depending on the circumstances

[Lew Stringer]

They may be planning to alter the logo depending on how it fits with that week's cover design. Practical Performance Car have two different ones that they use depending on the circumstances

I don't know if the new logo is here to stay but the whole cover design is different this issue, and Harry Hill is absent for the first time. (Surprising, since the cover is so celebrity-heavy.)

Permanent or not, it's a very eye-catching cover, I thought. Good idea to have the logo on the back too, for those shops that stack them back to front. Sadly my local Smiths had them upside down again.

[Peter Gray]

I liked the extreem visuals in Bananaman...nice seeing brassneck..and that jumping out skeleton!.also the fun talking in the tird person to the reader humour..

I agree with you on bananaman big bad bri

[WizzKid97]

They may be planning to alter the logo depending on how it fits with that week's cover design. Practical Performance Car have two different ones that they use depending on the circumstances

I don't know if the new logo is here to stay but the whole cover design is different this issue, and Harry Hill is absent for the first time. (Surprising, since the cover is so celebrity-heavy.)

Permanent or not, it's a very eye-catching cover, I thought. Good idea to have the logo on the back too, for those shops that stack them back to front. Sadly my local Smiths had them upside down again.

Second time actually Lew, Harry missed out on a cover spot in the Super Injunction issue: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 918&type=1

I liked the back cover, hated the front. I want the old style back!

Did a good deed a few days ago, put all the comics the right way round and put them on the shelves neatly and fixed the free gifts back on in WHSmiths. It's horrible seeing comics with lots of work put into them sprawled across the dirty floor.

[Digifiend]

Harry usually has a least a small picture even if the main picture is someone else (usually Dan or Bananaman, Arena of Awesome got the main cover pic once). Definitely surprising to find him absent.

The cover design matches the free Sunday Post issue, so that cover was basically what the cover from the retail issue two weeks ago (they have the same picture of Harry) would've been with the new design. Perhaps that Sunday Post cover was the prototype.

Upside down stacking is bad enough normally, but when they have those tall covers, it could actually damage them. Fools.

[Spencer]

I do the same thing as Wizzkid every time I go into WHSmiths in Liverpool Street or my local Asda! I also sneakily swap their shelf position from 'upside down at the back' to 'displayed correctly at the front' .... (Apologies to 'Hello Kitty' or 'Fun To Learn Favourites' magazine fans but you get bumped to the back --- and rightly so!)

Would you believe though, that a Smiths employee actually takes the time to turn most of The Dandy's back up the wrong way when they have free gifts ????

I am old enough to remember when you went into a newsagent (yes, even WHSmith) and they knew MORE about comics than you did...

More on-topic - both kids still loving The Dandy. Eldest is 13 now but still laughs out loud at a lot of the comic - the humour in some of the strips is so spot-on. He loves ALL of Jamie's stuff (including the 'blobs' dotted around the comic), and both of them love Clown Wars, The Gleeks (so much better idea than the 'Sing It' pages), Madvertisements, and all of Andy Fanton's strips too.

I love seeing my youngest say "Yayy, thanks Dad!" When I give him the latest issue!!

BTW, do we have any stats yet on how The Dandy is faring since the re-vamp?

IMHO,(and that of my kids) it is a much better read than even The Beano right now... Hope it's catching up a little....

[Digifiend]

The last set of ABC stats covered July-December 2010, so that covers the revamp itself, but we don't know how much of an effect it had yet as for half of that period it was still Xtreme. Dandy had improved, Beano was slipping but still outselling it 4 to 1.

[-MikeD-]

http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services ... ?tid=20167

But the next set of ABCs will be the interesting ones, given the huge revamp.
My kids are still enjoying The Dandy, and I've also heard them say it's funnier than The Beano nowdays...

[Digifiend]

You're right, those figures will be of great interest. Beano's in transition after an editor change. The Club pages and a couple of strips (notably, Ivy) have gone, but the only replacement strip is Pup Parade, which is reprints. Roger also became reprints. While the Dandy just keeps coming up with new ideas, some are successful, others flop, and some of the better ones have now come back for second runs (such as George vs Dragon, Harry and his Hippo, Pre-Skool Prime Minster) so far, apart from a couple of accidental repeats, only using one reprinted story - the ever-popular My Own Genie. Basically Beano's standing still whiles Dandy sprints ahead.

[AndyB]

Wouldn't say that, there's a new strip in the Beano on Wednesday!

[Jonny Whizz]

Interesting development, thanks for that Andy. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, and I'm sure you won't want to either, but could you tell us whether it introduces a new character (or characters)?

I ask this because, although Gnasher's Bite and Pup Parade have been added to the roster of strips in the last few months, the former in my opinion is not that different from Gnasher and Gnipper or Sixty Second Dennis, while the latter is old strip that has been brought back as reprints.

[swirlythingy]

IMHO,(and that of my kids) it is a much better read than even The Beano right now... Hope it's catching up a little....

My kids are still enjoying The Dandy, and I've also heard them say it's funnier than The Beano nowdays...

Basically Beano's standing still whiles Dandy sprints ahead.

*smug silence*

[AndyB]

He's a brand new character. Wait until Wednesday to find out more

Pup Parade is just reprint quota. Insert usual comments re obvious budget restrictions.

Probably at least partly due to budget constraints, the Beano has very steady content, but it also has a roll-call of consistently popular characters. The Dandy is still finding its way back.