I’ve grown to vastly prefer The Dandy as i’ve gotten older - After half a decade of reading Beanos i needed a breath of fresh air lol Funnily enough i got 80+ comics for Christmas this year, almost all of 1997 and 2000 (including the issue reviewed in this video, how fitting!) I also got the final issue as a sort of “late gift” today. As for my favourite characters from the comic, Desperate Dan and Molly are my top two. Dan may not be that funny the majority of the time, but he’s the most popular character.. how am I not supposed to like him lol. I like Molly because of how bloody of the rails she is, it’s probably one of the only british comics i’ve ever genuinely laughed at
I’ll agree the non child brat characters did come off as refreshing after so many years of the Beano and this comic for example had some fun cheeky innuendo jokes and weirdo characters I liked. I’ll agree Dan is iconic and never should have been removed from the cover in my opinion, maybe they felt this hairy man character wasn’t appealing to kids but they should have learned from hoot a weird baby wasn’t the answer. I would have crazied Molly up and made her the cover star, your already dying so swing for the fences.
Sadly, the Dandy has become even more of a ripoff. I never read it, but one time when my uncle brought some Beanos’ over from the U.K, there was the 2013 Dandy annual, and we saw even more. The Banana Bunch? Basically the Bash Street Kids, and they weren’t even trying. It has the fat one, the dumb one, the leader one, the twins two, the pet, you get the point. The Smasher looks like an ugly Dennis, Beryl the Peril is basically Minnie The Minx, and so on, so on.
@user-yr8mu1ce1m I think they were trying to capture that beano rebelliousness would have been better served to have had a much different identity than lamer versions of beano characters
I'm American, and all these comics seem really weird. Way too many of them are centered around bratty children in a similar art style, many of them wearing red and black. At least with Bananaman and Dangerous Dan McGrew or whatever his name was I could tell them apart. That "Injun" joke would not have been allowed by the editors in the 90s in an American comic.
At some stage, they just decided red and black were the perfect colours for everyone 👌 😅 Bananaman always stood out to ke he is so different to every other strip with a really fun outfit
Excellent video mate! I always think the Dandy is underappreciated, my brother got it weekly while I got the Beano but I've kept hold of all his old issues. I'm glad the annuals and summer specials are still going.
Yes, I agree, In ireland, it was a bit rare, beano was really our only option and occasionally something random like the Topper or the Beezer. If you ever want to do a video discussion, let me know 😅I've been a big fan of your videos for a while, and I hope to see you do more British comic stuff soon
@@theashtubereviews Ah I see, I never really got into any of the other comics (apart from reprints in Classics from the Comics). Aw thanks mate! I've definitely got some more ideas and videos coming, been a bit bunged down by life stuff so my channel has gone a bit quiet though I definitely intend to come back with a vengeance this year! 😁
@@theashtubereviews Thanks a lot 👍 And yeah I think a video discussion in the future sounds like a good idea 😁 I'll keep you posted on what videos I have coming up.
Great video! The Dandy is my No.1 favourite comic and glad to see you did your research on it. I own 60% of the Dandy's comics and nearly all the annuals, it's a really great comic, much better than the beano in my eyes and I've done a couple videos showing some of my collection 😊. Hope you do more dandy videos and remember you can keep a dandy handy 😉
Us the Irish prefer Beano. To be honest, most of The Dandy strips here are not good as The Beano. The Smasher is just Dennis and Roger combined into one character.
At least Corky the cat wasn't removed entirely when Dan replaced him as the main mascot. Biffo the bear however has basically disappeared by this point. He stopped being a regular in the Beano about a decade ago I believe, and was last scene in the Beano in a cameo about six years ago.
I think I read somewhere that his artist/writer had died, and that was part of the reason they retired him. They brought him back at some stage in very short strips for a bit. I love looking at old comics of Biffo, from certain angles he is nightmare fuel to look at
@@theashtubereviews You might wanna also look at Beano Annual 2024 cuz David Sutherland drew for it and Beano aged up old characters like Ivy the Terrible, Smudge, Pansy Potter and Brought back an Ex-Bash Street Kid member.
@@kingrgames I think I may own that one already, Down the line I need to do all the annuals, I don't know if I do them one buy one or just one long video looking through lots of different ones and picking out highlights
Me either 😅 my toppers are all in my parents' attics, so I googled, and that was the highest quality picture I could find. I think I'll do a what is the Topper or Beezer next year. They are almost obscure, such little information about them online compared to Dandy and Beano
I would love it if you covered "It's a Wonderful Life" for Old Timey Movies. Maybe next Christmas? (Don't take this comment too seriously. Obviously only cover video ideas that you want to).
Yes, I was hoping to do it this Christmas, but no time :D It's one of my favourite movies, so I am sure I'll do something with it at some stage, even just a rego review
Maybe Viz would make an interesting video? It's a comic line in the same art style as the beano. (Well, more the retro 70s art style of Beano anyway). But is designed for adults.
The character Blinky was originally known as Colonel Blink, from the Topper. Back then, he was a middle aged, be-spectacled man, often wearing a bowler hat, but he always had bad eyesight. & I always thought the mums in the Cuddles & Dimples strips were milfs (or milves, if you prefer - ref: Professor Lando).
@theashtube261 there's literally no more room. I'm in a one room flat, & it's a fire risk to have this many. I have them floor to ceiling, on shelves, in cupboards, & I'm even paying a little extra to keep some in the attic. The landlord has given me 6 months to cut down, so it's not really my choice to sell them, i'd much rather keep them in a storage locker, but there's nothing like that around here.
Good video but I don't think the comic you went through was the best representation of the Dandy. Winker Watson strips are great. Most issues it was Creep who does some dastardly deed. Also Molly and Growing Paynes weren't the best strips. They were ok but not great. The Smasher is awesome in his own right, imo unfairly compared to Dennis and Roger as a cheap knockoff. The smasher isn't really a menace or a dodger, he just smashes things, sometimes intentionally sometimes not, but some strips are hilarious and the art is consistently fantastic during the 90s at least. I'd agree with cuddles and dimples to a point, but they do grow on you and their splash pages of chaos are fantastic. The cat and parrot are like strips within the strip. Desperate Dan was normally solid until they screwed around with him in the 2000s. The one thing the Dandy has on the beano is the strength in depth of characters not seen in the comics you reviewed. Bully Beef and Chips, Jocks and Geordies, Richards Snitch, Mutt and Moggy, Dinah Mo, Corporal Clott, all excellent and superior to the likes of Molly and GP. Also worth noting the Dandy was selling 50,000 copies before they revamped and cast it's death knell in 2004. The current Beano does not even match these sales, so God know how it stays afloat. I'll be surprised if Beano is still around by the end of this decade.
Thanks for watching . With smasher, I meant more his look,he looked like a dennis and Rodger amalgamation.Ah that is too bad about molly only being average I really enjoyed her strip here. I was a bit tongue in cheek, but I did enjoy winker Watson 😅 a lot of the art in all of these were great the mid 2000s on the art everywhere really went down i think across the board. I Hope the beano survives, It would be sad to lose the last comic
I was disappointed. I was actually hoping for a Bully Beef and Chips and a jocks and Geordies but The issue I picked just didn't happen to have them.I will make more dandy videos so I will get to them eventually
@@theashtubereviews Would be great if you could do a video reviewing a dandy comic from the 2010-12 era showing the drop in quality. Same with the xtreme too.
Bananaman is a comic hopper. Actually us weirdos in america call that a brother-hopper (someone who dates brothers in a family), but Bananaman hops comics not family members.
Duane is kind of dressed like James, specifically the James of the calamity kind. Oh, duh, probably same artist. I think my brain is actually rotting from reading this stuff
You shouldn't judge Mr. Creep just for his name. You should judge him for the hidden cameras he has in the bathrooms
I’ve grown to vastly prefer The Dandy as i’ve gotten older - After half a decade of reading Beanos i needed a breath of fresh air lol
Funnily enough i got 80+ comics for Christmas this year, almost all of 1997 and 2000 (including the issue reviewed in this video, how fitting!) I also got the final issue as a sort of “late gift” today.
As for my favourite characters from the comic, Desperate Dan and Molly are my top two. Dan may not be that funny the majority of the time, but he’s the most popular character.. how am I not supposed to like him lol. I like Molly because of how bloody of the rails she is, it’s probably one of the only british comics i’ve ever genuinely laughed at
I’ll agree the non child brat characters did come off as refreshing after so many years of the Beano and this comic for example had some fun cheeky innuendo jokes and weirdo characters I liked. I’ll agree Dan is iconic and never should have been removed from the cover in my opinion, maybe they felt this hairy man character wasn’t appealing to kids but they should have learned from hoot a weird baby wasn’t the answer. I would have crazied Molly up and made her the cover star, your already dying so swing for the fences.
I actually still have this issue!
I love you Ashley …person, I love you.
Haha thank you 😊 glad you like the videos
Sadly, the Dandy has become even more of a ripoff. I never read it, but one time when my uncle brought some Beanos’ over from the U.K, there was the 2013 Dandy annual, and we saw even more. The Banana Bunch? Basically the Bash Street Kids, and they weren’t even trying. It has the fat one, the dumb one, the leader one, the twins two, the pet, you get the point. The Smasher looks like an ugly Dennis, Beryl the Peril is basically Minnie The Minx, and so on, so on.
@user-yr8mu1ce1m I think they were trying to capture that beano rebelliousness would have been better served to have had a much different identity than lamer versions of beano characters
I'm American, and all these comics seem really weird. Way too many of them are centered around bratty children in a similar art style, many of them wearing red and black. At least with Bananaman and Dangerous Dan McGrew or whatever his name was I could tell them apart.
That "Injun" joke would not have been allowed by the editors in the 90s in an American comic.
At some stage, they just decided red and black were the perfect colours for everyone 👌 😅 Bananaman always stood out to ke he is so different to every other strip with a really fun outfit
Excellent video mate! I always think the Dandy is underappreciated, my brother got it weekly while I got the Beano but I've kept hold of all his old issues. I'm glad the annuals and summer specials are still going.
Yes, I agree, In ireland, it was a bit rare, beano was really our only option and occasionally something random like the Topper or the Beezer. If you ever want to do a video discussion, let me know 😅I've been a big fan of your videos for a while, and I hope to see you do more British comic stuff soon
@@theashtubereviews Ah I see, I never really got into any of the other comics (apart from reprints in Classics from the Comics).
Aw thanks mate! I've definitely got some more ideas and videos coming, been a bit bunged down by life stuff so my channel has gone a bit quiet though I definitely intend to come back with a vengeance this year! 😁
@LukeNyul can't wait to see the come back. Yes, life really slows things down but I'll have me eyes open :)
@@theashtubereviews Thanks a lot 👍 And yeah I think a video discussion in the future sounds like a good idea 😁 I'll keep you posted on what videos I have coming up.
Great video! The Dandy is my No.1 favourite comic and glad to see you did your research on it. I own 60% of the Dandy's comics and nearly all the annuals, it's a really great comic, much better than the beano in my eyes and I've done a couple videos showing some of my collection 😊. Hope you do more dandy videos and remember you can keep a dandy handy 😉
I'll have to check those videos out :D not enough beano and dandy content on UA-cam
@@theashtubereviews Thanks 😁. And that's so true, I'm hoping to make a Dandy series soon, just need to find time to make it 😅
@@br4nthem4n98 look forward to seeing it when it's done
Now i want you to do Beano in dandytown and dandy and Beano crossover
And all fleetway and ipc comics
Growing up in the 80s/90s I found The Beano funnier and just somehow cooler. Not sure why? Just like Spiderman is cooler than Superman.
It was just inexplicably cooler it really was
The Beano was my favourite but honestly I always read both along with Buster, Beano all-star, Classic comics, pocket library, Beezer and the topper.
I was the same, I read whatever I could get my hands on. The buster I always liked seemed a little bit more mature than Beano and the Dandy
Us the Irish prefer Beano. To be honest, most of The Dandy strips here are not good as The Beano. The Smasher is just Dennis and Roger combined into one character.
Smasher is 'Dennis the Dodger'
At least Corky the cat wasn't removed entirely when Dan replaced him as the main mascot. Biffo the bear however has basically disappeared by this point. He stopped being a regular in the Beano about a decade ago I believe, and was last scene in the Beano in a cameo about six years ago.
I think I read somewhere that his artist/writer had died, and that was part of the reason they retired him. They brought him back at some stage in very short strips for a bit. I love looking at old comics of Biffo, from certain angles he is nightmare fuel to look at
Both the Dandy and Beano definitely have a distinct feel, but I'm unsure exactly how to describe what makes them different.
It's so hard to put your finger on. They should be Interchangable, but when you read them, they feel so different
@@theashtubereviews It's like comparing the Simpsons and Futurama.
HE Finally did it guys! He actually did it.
It only took me far, far....FAR to long but here we are ;)
Video Idea, the history changes on Modern Beano Characters
@kingrgames that's a good idea, I have a similar idea, the evolution of characters throughout the years
@@theashtubereviews You might wanna also look at Beano Annual 2024 cuz David Sutherland drew for it and Beano aged up old characters like Ivy the Terrible, Smudge, Pansy Potter and Brought back an Ex-Bash Street Kid member.
@@kingrgames I think I may own that one already, Down the line I need to do all the annuals, I don't know if I do them one buy one or just one long video looking through lots of different ones and picking out highlights
I enjoyed the video
Your image of the topper wasnt the british one
I didnt know there was an american one
Me either 😅 my toppers are all in my parents' attics, so I googled, and that was the highest quality picture I could find. I think I'll do a what is the Topper or Beezer next year. They are almost obscure, such little information about them online compared to Dandy and Beano
The only UK comics I would skip were "Oor wullie" and "The broons".
Same
Never heard of those, now I want to find them 😆
@@theashtubereviews en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oor_Wullie
They do annuals for them every year. It's the same company as the beano and dandy but it's a newspaper strip and written in Scots
@GingerLBC ahhh thats why I have never heard of them. Oor Wullie sounded familiar. I probably saw it advertised in Beanos
damn we need more respect for jak and todd😔
Maybe as I cover more dandys in the future 😉
It's the beano for me too but only because I didn't know the dandy existed 😅
Perfect reasoning 😆😅
@@theashtubereviewsalways 😂
I would love it if you covered "It's a Wonderful Life" for Old Timey Movies. Maybe next Christmas?
(Don't take this comment too seriously. Obviously only cover video ideas that you want to).
Yes, I was hoping to do it this Christmas, but no time :D It's one of my favourite movies, so I am sure I'll do something with it at some stage, even just a rego review
Blinky was not near sighted, he was meant to be crazy.
Maybe Viz would make an interesting video? It's a comic line in the same art style as the beano. (Well, more the retro 70s art style of Beano anyway). But is designed for adults.
Yea the viz is definitely a future video after I do a few more ‘what is the…’ to give context to what the viz parodying so well
The character Blinky was originally known as Colonel Blink, from the Topper. Back then, he was a middle aged, be-spectacled man, often wearing a bowler hat, but he always had bad eyesight.
& I always thought the mums in the Cuddles & Dimples strips were milfs (or milves, if you prefer - ref: Professor Lando).
I've got thousands of old comics at home, gradually reading through them all, so I can sell them & reclaim some shelf space at home.
So he was even more Mr Magoo back in the day. The mum's were always milfs in the Dandy and the Beano 😆
I couldn't sell them, I am to much if a hoarder, Buy more shelves
@theashtube261 there's literally no more room. I'm in a one room flat, & it's a fire risk to have this many. I have them floor to ceiling, on shelves, in cupboards, & I'm even paying a little extra to keep some in the attic. The landlord has given me 6 months to cut down, so it's not really my choice to sell them, i'd much rather keep them in a storage locker, but there's nothing like that around here.
Good video but I don't think the comic you went through was the best representation of the Dandy. Winker Watson strips are great. Most issues it was Creep who does some dastardly deed. Also Molly and Growing Paynes weren't the best strips. They were ok but not great. The Smasher is awesome in his own right, imo unfairly compared to Dennis and Roger as a cheap knockoff. The smasher isn't really a menace or a dodger, he just smashes things, sometimes intentionally sometimes not, but some strips are hilarious and the art is consistently fantastic during the 90s at least. I'd agree with cuddles and dimples to a point, but they do grow on you and their splash pages of chaos are fantastic. The cat and parrot are like strips within the strip. Desperate Dan was normally solid until they screwed around with him in the 2000s. The one thing the Dandy has on the beano is the strength in depth of characters not seen in the comics you reviewed. Bully Beef and Chips, Jocks and Geordies, Richards Snitch, Mutt and Moggy, Dinah Mo, Corporal Clott, all excellent and superior to the likes of Molly and GP. Also worth noting the Dandy was selling 50,000 copies before they revamped and cast it's death knell in 2004. The current Beano does not even match these sales, so God know how it stays afloat. I'll be surprised if Beano is still around by the end of this decade.
Thanks for watching . With smasher, I meant more his look,he looked like a dennis and Rodger amalgamation.Ah that is too bad about molly only being average I really enjoyed her strip here. I was a bit tongue in cheek, but I did enjoy winker Watson 😅 a lot of the art in all of these were great the mid 2000s on the art everywhere really went down i think across the board. I Hope the beano survives, It would be sad to lose the last comic
I was disappointed. I was actually hoping for a Bully Beef and Chips and a jocks and Geordies but The issue I picked just didn't happen to have them.I will make more dandy videos so I will get to them eventually
@@theashtubereviews Would be great if you could do a video reviewing a dandy comic from the 2010-12 era showing the drop in quality. Same with the xtreme too.
@Volcanic47 I definitely will do that at some point so keep an eye open :)
Bananaman is a comic hopper. Actually us weirdos in america call that a brother-hopper (someone who dates brothers in a family), but Bananaman hops comics not family members.
I like saying "us in America", it sounds so ugly and awkward. North America is not real.
Bananaman is a base Chad and does what he wants! He'll comic/brother hop all day long 😅
@@theashtubereviews Bananaman is basically just a British version of the tick.
@benjaminwilson2945 that's a good comparison, I wonder whon came first, tho
@@benjaminwilson2945 real
Duane is kind of dressed like James, specifically the James of the calamity kind. Oh, duh, probably same artist. I think my brain is actually rotting from reading this stuff
And also like do rest dc Thompson humor comic line up.
Did you use AI in this for the images?
For some at the beginning and 1 at the end. A bit of experimenting when I couldn't find relevant images.
This isn't advice or anything, but one image of it could screw it up. (You may of seen those Disney-Pixar AI videos)
@@BenGManMedia no, which one? Do Disney/pixar pull down anything inspired by their stuff