Warm edition

 

It's hot so we're trying to get things done before it gets to frying an egg on the pavement temperatures here having listened to the delayed Now Yearbook Extra for 1972 that arrived the other day so I've updated the main entry on that.

The Beano remains "Last Man Standing" when it comes to the comics we all recall reading or at least seeing friends with them and so while some cartoon series such as Lord Snooty and Friends and Biffo The Bear have gone others such as Ball Boy and the Bash Street Kids remain in the modern glossy full colour version.

Dennis has seen some changes over the year with "The Menace" being dropped, a new back story for Walter and His Dad being developed but he goes back to the early 1950's when it must be said the World was very different.

For those of us of a certain generation this whole strip is so so relatable, everyday objects having other more painful uses, instant, uncompromising adult authority over us from parents, teachers  and other adults.

Equally for all the sophestication around the modern child, that impulsiveness, lack of thinking about consequences still remains. They are for all that children.