...Considering how tall Beryl used to be in Davey Law's day I reckon she must have spent every spare minute of the last forty years smoking behind the bike sheds!ComicCrazy wrote:The one where she tries to get tall...
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...Considering how tall Beryl used to be in Davey Law's day I reckon she must have spent every spare minute of the last forty years smoking behind the bike sheds!ComicCrazy wrote:The one where she tries to get tall...
Just read it, it must've been deliberate, because the speech captions were changed. Did they really expect us not to notice?ComicCrazy wrote:This annual wonderfully highlights why I love Jamie Smart.
Two of the Beryl strips were reprinted from last year. (The one where she tries to get tall, the other when she goes to the zoo.)RamblingSid wrote:Except that it's not all-new. At least I don't think it is. A couple of the lads in the class I teach were saying that they'd seen some of the stories before.
I phoned up to complain/ask about the Beryls - the editor was really apologetic about it, he said it was definitely not deliberate, it was a genuine error on his part. They have a system to file used artwork away on servers and it seems this time it wasn't put away once it had been used. Then, when they came to put the next annual together, the staff on the comic was different (and smaller), which meant it wasn't spotted in time. Also, when i asked how the words were different, he said no good strip writer would just copy words from a script directly onto the artwork when it appeared as there were loads of opportunities to add new bits in, crack little jokes, make it flow better etc. Quite interesting, really.just read it, it must've been deliberate, because the speech captions were changed. Did they really expect us not to notice?
Can't say I'm surprised, for while it is radically different to Dudley Watkins and Ken Harrison's versions of Dan, it's still a good strip. The best in Dandy Xtreme in fact.MikeC wrote:He said they're always planning something new, so to keep looking, and he's most proud of getting Jamie Smart to do Desperate Dan, as it was quite radical, but he's had no negative feedback at all.
Mike
It was Nigel Parkinson, not Tom Paterson.SID wrote:Well I got my Dandy Annual right after Christmas (late Xmas present) and it is pretty good (though I had to check the goof with Beryl).
Only one question: Why didn't they have Jamie do the Cover Dan (he was inside) rather than getting Tom Patterson to mimic Ken?
Digifiend wrote:It was Nigel Parkinson, not Tom Paterson.SID wrote:Well I got my Dandy Annual right after Christmas (late Xmas present) and it is pretty good (though I had to check the goof with Beryl).
Only one question: Why didn't they have Jamie do the Cover Dan (he was inside) rather than getting Tom Patterson to mimic Ken?