Steveweiser
Slabface
Get your teeth out for the lads...
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Post by Steveweiser on Jun 17, 2004 11:32:06 GMT
Anyone know if it's as good (or at times inconsistent) as I remember it as a child? Dennis The Menace and Minnie The Minx shacking up now?
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Post by bluejean on Oct 3, 2005 15:03:01 GMT
I took a look at one of the annuals yesterday, and all the drawings have gone to shit. Sorry.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 2, 2006 18:47:23 GMT
You'd better edit your post to avoid legal action - Walter has a girlfriend. Edwina I think she's called.
I used to love The Beano. It was the only comic I ever got. Billy Wizz was fucking great. I once broke my finger pretending to be him.
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Post by [james] on Jul 2, 2006 18:48:32 GMT
I used to love The Beano. It was the only comic I ever got. Billy Wizz was fucking great. I once broke my finger pretending to be him. I sense a potentially hilarious story...
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 2, 2006 18:51:30 GMT
Not at all, unless you revel in the pain of young loser kids.
I was just running really fast up the school field and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to touch a passing tree. It wasn't.
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Post by [james] on Jul 2, 2006 18:52:49 GMT
Not at all, unless you revel in the pain of young loser kids. I was just running really fast up the school field and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to touch a passing tree. It wasn't. See - no good comes from exercise. If you'd be watching TV or eating burgers, you'd be fine.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 2, 2006 19:04:15 GMT
Maybe my Beano idol should have been Pieface or that fat Bash Street Kid then.
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Post by [james] on Jul 2, 2006 19:06:45 GMT
For your own safety, yes.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 2, 2006 23:17:38 GMT
I remember Dennis being modernised for all of one issue. He changed back, obviously.
ISTR him wearing a blue tracksuit and listening to a walkman. I can't find a picture of it online I'm afraid.
This may have been a cynical Beano marketing ploy to get lots of 'change Dennis back!' type reactions, maybe in the tabloids. I was too young to notice.
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Post by bez80 on Aug 29, 2006 21:35:49 GMT
I still have the Bash Street Kids annual every year because I'm mildly obsessed with them... and if I'm poorly then I demand an odd copy of the Beano... but, yeah, Beano drawings have mostly gone to pot and some of the new characters are just plain shit.
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fused
Su Pollard
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Post by fused on Dec 1, 2006 13:38:32 GMT
Was obsessed with it as a kid. My favourite one was The Bash Street Kids. I suppose because there were so many of them there would be at least one you liked. If you didn't like the main character in the strip then you wouldn't like the whole thing.
The illustrations for Calamity James were brilliant. I think they were done by Tom Patterson, but I can't be sure.
Dennis now has a baby sister called Bea doesn't he? I remember the tabloid headlines reporting on Dennis' mother becoming pregnant. All of them were along the lines of "Sex in the Beano!"
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Post by saint on Mar 15, 2007 10:06:52 GMT
Have to say my fav character was Roger the Dodger. Great times.
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Post by Dr Onion on Mar 15, 2007 10:21:45 GMT
Billy Whizz was the greatest! His dad was always being called a pikey for not buying Billy new shoes when he wore them out by running too fast. This happened every week - or so it seemed!
I was a member of the Dennis the Menace fan club too! I think I still have the wallet and badges somewhere!
I probably shouldn't have admitted that!
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laine
Jane Asher
Doc on a box
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Post by laine on Mar 28, 2007 16:59:06 GMT
I used to collect the Beano when I was younger and had them all in a tidybox under my bed, one day I was ill and was sick all over them and we had to throw the whole lot out. It was a sad time.
My gran used to have a video of the Beano. I can't remember the exact storylines but the bashstreet kids one was the best.
xx
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Post by jetsetwilly on Mar 28, 2007 19:36:35 GMT
I had a huge collection of Beanos. My mum threw them out while I was at school without telling me then, when I protested, she said I was too old for them. I was 8. Deep psychological scars, right there.
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Post by Scarlett on Apr 25, 2008 11:27:59 GMT
My brother used to get the Beano which I read (I had to read the Bunty - much more suitable for a young girl) and for his birthday one year I bought him Dennis the Menace fanclub membership. I think it was a whole 50p. Roger the Doger was my favourite too.
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booers
Su Pollard
Troppo in love
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Post by booers on Apr 29, 2008 23:02:41 GMT
The Gnasher badge had wobbly eyes.
I was a big Beano fan in my childhood. I loved Roger The Dodger, so much so that I even set up my own Dodge Clinic in my bedroom. I never had a single customer. Hmmph. One of my fave dodges that he did once was to cut the toe bit off a welly boot and paint it white and hobble around on crutches so it looked like he had a broken leg . All this just to get out of PE - my hero.
I remember Calamity James being new and hating it but then really got into it and it became one of my faves. I loved how he'd walk past gold bars and bags of money in the street and not notice them.
And the Bash street Kids were quite ace. I can't remember that many of their names though: Danny, Smiffy and Plug are all I recall.
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Post by Bungle on Apr 30, 2008 16:28:00 GMT
I remember Dennis being modernised for all of one issue. He changed back, obviously. ISTR him wearing a blue tracksuit and listening to a walkman. I can't find a picture of it online I'm afraid. This may have been a cynical Beano marketing ploy to get lots of 'change Dennis back!' type reactions, maybe in the tabloids. I was too young to notice. Oooh, Wikipedia backs me up: Dennis celebrated his 40th anniversary in March 1991. A special pull out poster supplement (including a story featuring Dennis appearing on This is Your Life, looking back at the last 40 years of menacing) for the comic was produced to celebrate this. Also, for the same reason, an Italian designer was called in to give Dennis a makeover. He now wore a tracksuit, sported a pair of shades, and had a personal stereo on him. However, this revamp lasted only one story - since the strips are written and drawn months in advance of printing, it seems this was a publicity stunt
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