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Today is the day, my friends: The Dandy, home to such lovable rogues as Desperate Dan and Korky the Kat, is going digital. No more will we flick through the musty, tangible pages as we feast on the latest adventures of Bananaman. The demise was inevitable, with the weekly readership down to 8,000; but is this another stepping stone on the road to enlightenment, or the end of real childhoods as we knew them?
As inevitable as it was, I reckon this is a good thing: the new, digital version of the Dandy is awesome, being fully interactive, and with actual playable games integrated as well. Nice as real paper versions admittedly are, they’re all just a little bit last century, and I for one am glad that they’re being left there. What do you, our young-at-heart readership reckon? Would you have fallen in love with the Dandy if it were hidden behind a sheet of Gorilla Glass rather than inky pages? [The Dandy]
I was always more of a Beano boy. Only had the Dandy when I was ill.
I know right! Good thing that the Beano’s got an equally awesome digital version
“No more will we flick through the musty, tangible pages as we feast on the latest adventures of Bananaman” – Did you ever actually do this? The Dandy was considered outdated and behind the times when I was young and we all know how long ago that was.
Hell, I used to buy the Dandy, along with the Beano.
Pfft, Richie Rich!
Back in my day the Dandy had characters like Lord Snooty and his pals, now they’re running the country.
What do you mean, “now running the country”? You think Nigel Lawson and the like didn’t go to Cambridge and weren’t loaded? Somethings never change.
As for old Beano characters, does Roger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx help age me?
Well yes, but there are so many people here that barely remember the Thatcher years, I thought I’d go for something they could relate too. Also I’m shamelessly referencing a Private Eye cartoon.
I did, occasionally — though I’ve gotta confess, I was always more of a Beano man myself.
Do you remember when Dennis the Menace’s Mum got pregnant? And then there was a vote to decide what ‘Bea’ should be called? That shit was the pinnacle of drama. Even The Wire can’t beat that.
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