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swirlythingy wrote:And so, another small segment of humanity learns the uncomfortable truth that, in general, the iterations of long-running characters which they consider to be the best are invariably the ones they personally grew up with, and that this does not in fact confer any particular quality on these versions or a single objective reason to like them, nor does it in any way guarantee that one who grew up with a different version will automatically come round to the same point of view.

FWIW, I don't like David Law's Dennis the Menace either.

Each to their own I suppose but with the Dandy on the slaughter house steps flogging a dead horse etc etc etc.....

Everyone has there own opinions, I personally like both Watkins and Smart's Dan strips they are good in their own unique way. Let's just all be glad The legend that is Desperate Dan is still going and staying current to appeal to today's readers.

Its like when you hear someone's mp3 player on the bus or tube and think "Why are they listening to that synthetic, computer generated, soulless pap? They should be listening to 60s psychedelia like me."

Things aint wot they used to be.

stevezodiac wrote:Its like when you hear someone's mp3 player on the bus or tube and think "Why are they listening to that synthetic, computer generated, soulless pap? They should be listening to 60s psychedelia like me."

Things aint wot they used to be.

Enjoy your trip

swirlythingy wrote:And so, another small segment of humanity learns the uncomfortable truth that, in general, the iterations of long-running characters which they consider to be the best are invariably the ones they personally grew up with,

Glad you put "in general" as that's not usually the case for me. My favourite artists for Dan, Korky, Dennis, The Bash Street Kids, Buster and Roger the Dodger are Watkins, Crichton, Law, Baxendale, Nadal and Reid respectively, and none of them are the ones I grew up with. (though admittedly I was still exposed to them all while still at an impressionable age).

I only prefer the comics I read while growing up in the early 1960s because they were better than anything before or since (he said controversially!).

- Phil R

I sometimes pick up the latest Dandy, look through it, and then replace it in despair. The artwork does nothing for me. I have to go home and look at a Bill Holroyd Joe White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Grumpy Old Man? Me? I should bloomin' well cocoa.

Enjoy your trip? Are you saying psychedelic music is far out? These lyrics from Slip Inside This House by the 13th Floor Elevators should answer that - one of my favourite songs ever.

Bedoin tribes ascending
From the egg into the flower,
Alpha information sending
State within the heaven shower
From disciples the unending
Subtleties of river power
They slip inside this house as they pass by

If your limbs begin dissolving
In the water that you tread
All surroundings are evolving
In the stream that clears your head
Find yourself a caravan
Like Noah must have led
And slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

True conception, knowing why
Brings even more than meets the eye
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

In this dark we call creation
We can be and feel and know
From an effort, comfort station
That's surviving on the go
There's infinite survival in
The high baptismal glow.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Live where your heart can be given
And your life starts to unfold
In the forms you envision
In this dream that's ages old
On the river layer is the only sayer
You receive all you can hold
Like you've been told.

Every day's another dawning
Give the morning winds a chance
Always catch your thunder yawning
Lift your mind into the dance
Sweep the shadows from your awning
Shrink the fourfold circumstance
That lies outside this house don't pass it by.

Higher worlds that you uncover
Light the path you want to roam
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam
Twice born gypsies care and keep
The nowhere of their former home
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

You think you can't, you wish you could
I know you can, I wish you would
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Four and twenty birds of Maya
Baked into an atom you
Polarized into existence
Magnet heart from red to blue
To such extent the realm of dark
Within the picture it seems true
But slip inside this house and then decide.

All your lightning waits inside you
Travel it along your spine
Seven stars receive your visit
Seven seals remain divine
Seven churches filled with spirit,
Treasure from the angels' mine
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

The space you make has your own laws
No longer human gods are cause
The center of this house will never die.

There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Draw from the well of unchanging
Its union nourishes on
In the right re-arranging
Till the last confusion is gone
Water-brothers trust in the ultimust
Of the always singing song they pass along.

One-eyed men aren't really reigning
They just march in place until
Two-eyed men with mystery training
Finally feel the power fill
Three-eyed men are not complaining.
They can yo-yo where they will
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Don't pass it by.

stevezodiac wrote:I sometimes pick up the latest Dandy, look through it, and then replace it in despair. The artwork does nothing for me. I have to go home and look at a Bill Holroyd Joe White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Grumpy Old Man? Me? I should bloomin' well cocoa.

Enjoy your trip? Are you saying psychedelic music is far out? These lyrics from Slip Inside This House by the 13th Floor Elevators should answer that - one of my favourite songs ever.

Bedoin tribes ascending
From the egg into the flower,
Alpha information sending
State within the heaven shower
From disciples the unending
Subtleties of river power
They slip inside this house as they pass by

If your limbs begin dissolving
In the water that you tread
All surroundings are evolving
In the stream that clears your head
Find yourself a caravan
Like Noah must have led
And slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

True conception, knowing why
Brings even more than meets the eye
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

In this dark we call creation
We can be and feel and know
From an effort, comfort station
That's surviving on the go
There's infinite survival in
The high baptismal glow.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Live where your heart can be given
And your life starts to unfold
In the forms you envision
In this dream that's ages old
On the river layer is the only sayer
You receive all you can hold
Like you've been told.

Every day's another dawning
Give the morning winds a chance
Always catch your thunder yawning
Lift your mind into the dance
Sweep the shadows from your awning
Shrink the fourfold circumstance
That lies outside this house don't pass it by.

Higher worlds that you uncover
Light the path you want to roam
You compare there and discover
You won't need a shell of foam
Twice born gypsies care and keep
The nowhere of their former home
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

You think you can't, you wish you could
I know you can, I wish you would
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Four and twenty birds of Maya
Baked into an atom you
Polarized into existence
Magnet heart from red to blue
To such extent the realm of dark
Within the picture it seems true
But slip inside this house and then decide.

All your lightning waits inside you
Travel it along your spine
Seven stars receive your visit
Seven seals remain divine
Seven churches filled with spirit,
Treasure from the angels' mine
Slip inside this house as you pass by.
Slip inside this house as you pass by.

The space you make has your own laws
No longer human gods are cause
The center of this house will never die.

There is no season when you are grown
You are always risen from the seeds you've sown
There is no reason to rise alone
Other stories given have sages of their own.

Draw from the well of unchanging
Its union nourishes on
In the right re-arranging
Till the last confusion is gone
Water-brothers trust in the ultimust
Of the always singing song they pass along.

One-eyed men aren't really reigning
They just march in place until
Two-eyed men with mystery training
Finally feel the power fill
Three-eyed men are not complaining.
They can yo-yo where they will
They slip inside this house as they pass by.
Don't pass it by.

Didn't Rocky Erickson go mad through overdoing the LSD and had to endure torture during his time in the funny farm?

Steve, did you ever get to one of their concerts for the free Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds that they handed out?

Apparently, Erickson and another band member were so out of it on the above that they were found waiting in line to buy tickets for their own concert.

Roky is fully recovered now and performing again.

Apologies for going off topic.

Looking at the recall date on the current Dandy the date is the Wednesday and not the Tuesday does this mean the next issues of both The Dandy and The Beano will be going on sale on Thursday again???

This is really getting confusing they really need to sort this problem out.

There's no issue of either comic this week, so another day's delay is most definitely unnecessary.

Gilly wrote:Looking at the recall date on the current Dandy the date is the Wednesday and not the Tuesday does this mean the next issues of both The Dandy and The Beano will be going on sale on Thursday again???

Actually, if you look over your back issues, you'll notice it's consistently been on Wednesday for quite some time. I haven't yet bothered to find out when it changed, but it's definitely not a one-off. Surprised me when I first noticed too.

could be because some shops still have the old issue on sale on wed mornings until they swap them for the new ones which my local morrissons seem to do at about 9.30-10am

Whoopee!! I found Bookworm..

See Bad Granddad
also Brain Duane

Nuke Noodle was fun..silent laugh!!