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this has left me flummoxed.
"following extensive research, we discovered the dandy readers were struggling to schedule a weekly comic into their hectic lives. they just didn't have enough time…”

because of this the dandy
comic of my youth is no more. no longer will it be published weekly. nope because the kids of today have such full and packed lives they will only have to read the dandy every two weeks.
already children around the country are emitting sighs of relief. those that did read it every week can now use that time to catch up on some much needed sleep. while those that were daunted by the prospect of having to read a comic every week can now forget about that stress and just indulge themselves every fortnight with “dandy xtreme” which comes with the “dandy comix” inside.
at last the comic/life balance has been restored and the kids are saved from even more stress.

i almost feel sorry for kevin petersen, “english” cricket player, who recently complained of being drained because he had been playing too much cricket recently. lord knows what it would have been like if he had been asked to read the dandy as well…

as i read the quote i thought it was marketing bollocks. when i got to the bit where “dandy xtreme” was also going to provide the readers a lifestyle guide in order to keep them in the loop. it was then i realised it was utter tripe.
confirmed by the fact the characters were going to be edgier and cheekier and of course more xtreme!
hard to believe we are talking about a kids comic here – i almost thought it was a quentin tarrantino presents type thing filled with the edgiest of edgy. but i was wrong – desperate dan will still be there, eating his cow pies, but now he will do it with angst and existential worry.


newspapers must dread this kind of report – if they can’t cope with a weekly comic, what are they going to do with a daily paper?
still no need to worry if half the things they say about our education system are true in a few years hardly any kids will be able to read.