4,000 issues

>4,000 issues
Do people even read the Beano anymore?

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Amerifat here, what the fuck even is the beano?

My dad.

Looks pretty sweet. Who is that on the left? I'm guessing they aren't usually in a Xaviermobile.

Did they make Billy Whizz black?

its been dogshit for a long time, roughly since this rebrand (which if i remember correctly was like 16 pages per issue)

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Not since I was 10. I assume 10 year olds still do.

I preferred the Dandy to be fair, but the English didn't so it died.

Is commando still going? I use to love reading the war stories too.

I feel like Beano leads into people buying 2000ad, then into American Comics.

That said I find kids who read the Beano, Dandy then moved onto 2000ad tend to avoid capeshit a lot.

About 31,000 copies a week, with an increasing proportion of those via subscription, which is better from a sales perspective but as the US market shows worse from a general audience reach perspective. However, the Beano is still sold nationwide in the UK in general retailers.

It's also a multimedia brand, with several iterations of cartoons about the flagship characters dating back to the 1990s.

DC Thompson definitely the best DC.

Huh?

The Beano Max was a seperate monthly spinoff with more magazine-style content that ran for several years. It wasn't a rebrand.

That's a different title. The Beano is weekly, Beano MAX (now EPIC Magazine) is a monthly.

Commando is still going. Expect its characters to show up in a Jonathan Hickman X-Men title for no reason other than he wanted to appropriate them for nerd cred and didn't check whether anybody owned them.

Might nip down to WHsmith tomorrow and pick up some commandos. Just for nostalgia.

I can guarantee no british kid reads the Beano anymore. I'd estimate that 30% of their meagre sales are from adult collectors, and the other 70% ore from out-of-touch parents who pick it up for their kid at the corner shop or supermarket becasue they remember it from when they were young, before it is quickly tossed aside once brought home.

How did Beano keep going when The Dandy died? Thought they'd always just coexist

It's probably banned in the UK now because Dennis is a toxic male who picks on the wee effeminate bufty next door.

The Beano has been a husk for years now.

The Dandy's 2010 revamp was actually great and recaptured the spirit of good british kids comics but with a more modern flavour. The celeb fixation was annoying, but eventually the editors heard the complaints and toned it down significantly. Yet nobody bought the thing and it ended up being the final nail in the coffin for the comic.

The only currently running British kids' comic that matters is the Phoenix. It has actual love and care put into it, hires good artists & writers, and branches out by telling more serious & long form stories alongside the usual gag strips. It's been a long time since I've read an issue on account of being WAY out of the appropriate age range, but every now and then I'll check the website to see if it's still going strong, and am always pleasently suprised to find that against all odd it actually is.

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That is one ugly dog

I guess Dennis just has more appeal than Desperate Dan

Nah that's one of Dennis' gang of racially diverse best friends from the new cartoon.

>tfw this is making me sad bc now I remember reading Beano as a kid
I'm 21

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I imagine some bong kids do or it wouldn't be at 4000 issues

It really should have adapted into a webcomic format, for the price they've been selling it at
Or an app on your ipad or something
Whatever kids like that isn't a shite comic printed on recycled paper

Beano has better characters. Desperate Dan just can't compete with Dennis, Minnie and the Bash Street Kids

>Whatever kids like that isn't a shite comic printed on recycled paper
I'd rather my comics be on shit paper instead of glossy shit they use to jack up the price to insane levels

>Bash Street Kids
This is the real shit right here. Those standalone Bash Street annuals were Godly

>4,000 issues
So did it start sometime during the Napoleonic Wars or do they print 5 issues a month?

It's weekly

I would if I could get it.
I wish something like that would run in the US.