Mike Stirling and The Beano Overhaul

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Yes, a children’s comic has now gone totally woke, and has received a ‘modern makeover’

The publishers have hired ‘Inclusive Minds’ (who now doubt exclude anyone who doesn’t go along with the acceptable group think), to vet characters and reinvent the comic.
Characters now include Khadija Raad, a talented artist who wears a hijab; Mandira Sharma, a girl battling anxiety; Jemima Jones, a ghost hunter who is black; and Rubi, a ginger haired scientist who uses a wheelchair.

Stirling told the Sunday Times that he is comfortable with the prospect of being branded “woke” by some readers. Hope he’s still comfortable when sales figures go due south.

Msn.com

Nominated by Mystic Maven.

91 thoughts on “Mike Stirling and The Beano Overhaul”

  1. Inclusive minds?
    Didn’t they play Wembley last week?
    We are living through a tyranny of the majority by the minority.

    • Just recently sold all my old Victor/valiant annuals on eBay….

      Mother’s house clearance..

    • I remember some annual called ‘Battle Picture Weekly’ that my mother inexplicably sold at a jumble sale.

      They could also have done with an inclusive makeover with new characters such as ‘Herman the loveable Nazi’ and a Mickey Rooney-like ‘Yunioshi’ character who would teach kids that not ALL Japs went around raping Chinese peasants.

      The US and British guys would become the villains, goes without saying.

  4. The Beano fathers would wait with slipper in hand, for their naughty children to come home. Now the little twats are allowed to run riot, terrorising neighbourhood’s once again.

  5. Can only imagine it now.

    Dennis the Defiant Syndrome Sufferer and his Therapy Animal Companion.

    Walter the Pacifistic, non binary, Asperger’s Syndrome sufferer.

    Minnie the trailblazing, transgendered ADHD pansexual.

    • Shame the Dandy is no longer around, I’m sure people would flock to read the adventures of Desperate Dan the Incel.

  6. Given how this cunting has generated a fair bit of a nostalgia, a question for my fellow cunters;

    Growing up, which boy band’s female fans did you find were most promiscuous, free-spirited and up for a laugh?

    In my experience it was the girls who liked East-17.

    Shameless.

    • I was a bit before that, Girls who loved Wham! lost their knickers with spectacular regularity.

    • East-17 and then a year or 2 later it was girls that liked 5ive.

      I didn’t have much luck with girls at school who were East-17 fans, but in hindsight it was a blessing in disguise because most of them ended up being obese, tatted up council estate biffers who rant on BaceFook about their ex not paying CSA.

      So in my mind I had a lucky escape

      • An I told ‘im!
        I fuckin’ well told ‘im!
        If he cares so much abaaaaht not seeing Kianu or Blaize he needs to sort aaaaht CSA payments!

        “2 grand he’s owes me. 2 fuckin’ grand!”

        Kianuu! stop lickin them windows. I’ve told you before!

        [shudders]

      • Yep, Five appealed to the young slappers. Perhaps because, as Phil Jupitus said, they looked like they’d just left site.

  7. just seen this on eBay. The Dandy Book 1971 – Dirty Dick, Greedy Pigg, Spunky and His Spider – Nice Copy £45.00 what great names🤣🤣🤣

  9. Axa in the Sun was great. A blonde female warrior with great big tits.

    The Bash Street Kids have had a woke overhaul too. Fatty, Spotty and Wilfrid have been axed. And two black ones and a female carpet kisser have been shoehorned in.

    And every Beano cover now has to have a ‘mandatory’ black character in there somewhere.

  11. In more cheerful news, anyone else remember “Thieving Gypsy Bastards” from Viz?

    • Sid the sexiest the two fat slags and roger mellie now that is a fucking comic worth reading

  12. I was a Beezer kid, couldn’t wait for Saturday morning when it arrived through the letterbox.
    Ginger, Pop, Dick and Harry, Banana Bunch etc… good old days.

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