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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2018 17:47:08 GMT
I've been enjoying The Beano so much of late that I have subscribed. At that price it's worth 90p-ish a pop. There's some genuinely funny stuff every issue: really high quality humour strips. I can always pass the issues on to the local reading donation box when I am done with them.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2018 20:02:30 GMT
The Summer Special tells a very funny single story. It also comes with loads of stickers!!! -Ralph You hate stickers. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2018 20:08:12 GMT
I dislike stickers on toys when toy technology progressed beyond them for many years so companies now cheapen out by replacing detail with poor quality stickers while putting the prices up. I enjoy stickers in all other contexts!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2018 19:40:09 GMT
Made a trip to Dundee to see The Beano exhibition in the McManus art allery (lovely building). Nicely presented with not a hint of looking down on the medium. Now I have seen some Leo Baxendale original art with my own eyes rather than the lower quality repro of the time I now understand why folk have started banging on about him in recent years. Superb craftmanship.
Also nice to see a copy of The Beano #1 in person without having to pay several thousand pounds!
Alas while the museum tat shop had general Beano merchandise there was nowt made specifically for the exhibition.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2019 8:51:36 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2019 9:37:32 GMT
Doomed!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2019 21:05:52 GMT
The Beano reaches issue #4000 this coming week!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 24, 2019 21:14:03 GMT
Woah!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2019 22:13:04 GMT
It has a special shiny cover. Rush to your newsagents on Wednesday!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2019 10:22:28 GMT
Beano and Dandy 2020 Annuals £2 in Asdaland. I could not say no.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 10, 2020 13:37:45 GMT
This week's Beano celebrates 40 years of Bananaman!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2020 20:25:53 GMT
Which I only got round to reading today as I fell behind! Good issue. The quality of The Beano is quite high these days. It makes me giggle whereas Rebellion's two Cor/Buster specials did not.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2020 21:12:02 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2020 16:14:25 GMT
Hmmm. Beano recently moved from sending subs copies in plastic bags to recyclable paper ones. This should be a good thing. Unfortunately, every copy now arrives stuck with glue to the paper bag, leaving big grey splodges and impossble to store (I can't get the glue off). I can see myself cancelling the sub and going back to buying from newsstands...when the shops re-open.
No point having eco-friendly packaging if it wrecks the product inside! 2000ad moved to eco-friendly packaging that doesn't stick to the comics!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 15, 2020 7:33:37 GMT
Beano and Dandy Summer Specials are out (I got them from the DC Thomson shop).
THE DANDY HAS NEW MATERIAL!!! Lew Stringer has some work in it.
Worth a look.
The Beano Special comes with FART STICKERS.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 15, 2020 7:58:17 GMT
Good lord.
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Post by The Doctor on May 24, 2021 14:24:43 GMT
This year's Dandy Summer Special also has a new story! Meanwhile, Fatty is now Freddy. Cue people who don't read the Beano losing their minds: downthetubes.net/?p=127346-Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2022 21:20:56 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2023 19:23:59 GMT
This year's Dandy Annual was pretty good. Some inventive pieces and quite a lot of Lew Stringer!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 19, 2023 19:26:14 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 10, 2023 19:54:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2023 21:28:30 GMT
I did my usual duty and picked up the Summer Specials. The usual quality though the Dandy one is hard to find!
Also got the 85th anniversary issue.
-Ralph
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Post by paulbyrnex on Aug 4, 2023 13:33:47 GMT
The summer specials were hard to find the online store wasn't selling them this year Wh Smiths had an exclusive window or some deal like that. Not on sale in Ireland though but I managed to find a seller in the UK to post them over. The 85th issue was nice but could have done without the celebrities and would have preferred older characters to return.
I like the Beano but I want to love it may be a few ongoing strips like the weekly Spirou comic in France and the old Winker Watson in the 1990s. I know it isn't made for my age group and will never be like it was 80s/90s but it probably could with "something" new and hopefully a Dandy relaunch as well.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 9:43:29 GMT
I still dip in from time to time as I think it's still very good. No space for them so they go to local charity place. I'd like trades of Nigel Aucherterline's strips. Brilliant writer.
It does boggle my mind that DC Thompson don't have decent collected editions output for this stuff. It just vanishes into the ether.
-Ralph
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