More thoughts on Dandy Summer Special

It's been a challenging week physically and for that matter emotionally but as remarked on Monday reading this years Dandy Summer Special it was a bit underpar because for some reason D C Thomson effectively made it a compilation of Jamie Smarts take on Desperate Dan exclusively.

That may of been in the mistaken belief that actual children would sooner read those mid to late 2000's versions because they enjoy Jamie's newer work for The Pheonix but with those there's no long established backstory when it comes the story or set style guide in the way that D C Thomson have had for all their comics.

Thus you see them as a all new thing where handling legacy series brings conflicts from those who used to older styles and those who are coming in cold.

The other thing was there were no other comic series in it where the Dandy has a big legacy of the including of course Bananaman who when the Dandy folded as a weekly, got transferred to the Beano and just two three page strips of him would of helped.

Plus it does link to the modern Beano.

But the other thing was we lacked the iconic Korky The Cat and Keyhole Kate that I'm sure today's children could relate to and really that's where they got it wrong I feel although I do have high hopes for the upcoming Annual.