In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil. - ThreadSky

doomerhermit.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Never seen this strip before, your art seems inspired by Beetle Bailey and Dave Berg from Mad in the old days.

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lhdinton.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The Beano is a great British institution!

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doomerhermit.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Here Beano is a product yopu buy to prevent you becoming gassy if you eat beans.

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dargster.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I guess that makes DOGE the Department of General Evil?

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henryisreal.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This seems like commentary but I’m not sure on what

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bjlems.bsky.social•18 hours ago

This is genius 🙂 and well worth never being able to get through US customs and immigration ever again for the rest of eternity! 👍

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nedhartley.com•18 hours ago

Oh well! Only four years and I might not get detained!

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joing.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Followed you for that!

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helxine.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Me too!

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paiixofthepack.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I wanted to let you know that this made me smile in the face of absolute despair. Thank you so much! 🤍💜

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nedhartley.com•10 hours ago

I’m really glad to hear that it made you smile. I’ve had some hard times made better by silly jokes.

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deegeewaa.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Wherever did you find the inspiration for this? 🤔
😂😂😂 Love it!

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jimmycraig42.bsky.social•12 hours ago

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phyllishistorian.bsky.social•7 hours ago

😂😂😂👍

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stupidityvortex.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Holy shit this is awesome

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ginarina4.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The Beano my very favourite newspaper, as is @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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elemjay.bsky.social•15 hours ago

@privateeyenews.bsky.social chuggs along with facts and satire.
But otherwise agree.

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ginarina4.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Oh gosh yes! Private Eye is one of my faves, how did I not include that? 🤦‍♀️

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thequinch.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Bananaman... holy crap, that hit me right in the nostalgia.

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notthranduil.bsky.social•9 hours ago

More truth in the Beano than in the Excess, the Waily Fail etc

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ballantyne.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wait, you're telling me Bananaman wasn't a fever dream from my childhood?

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paul2626.bsky.social•14 hours ago

"Let's make Beanotown much worse" is such a great line.

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aciddwayne.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Needed a baseball cap with ‘Make Beanotown Worse Again’. But apart from that, top marks for the Beano.

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lasmith83.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Let's call DOGE DOPE from now on. It sounds better anyways.

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playfulpanthress.bsky.social•9 hours ago

They saw what happened to Target. Apparently, contrary to popular belief, they are smart enough to know following in those footsteps is bad...

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macymoosdad.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Elmo🎯

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alvinford.bsky.social•14 hours ago

When D. C. Thomson comics in Dundee are satirising you, then you're well and truly fucked.

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aardman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The sickest part of this is it’s not even fiction.

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drogue7.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This is weirdly accurate

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kaneclements11.bsky.social•9 hours ago

When the Beano, the fucking Beans is taking the piss your number is going to be up. Soon.

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velvetandroid.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Oh my goodness, this is perfect Ned. Needs all the likes. I hope the target audience gets it too.

Notably, I feel, fully ⅔ of those who've liked this post so far have also reposted it - that says a lot!

I love that Walter the Softy is acting as Blight's willing accomplice, by the way 😄

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nedhartley.com•19 hours ago

Ah thank you! Wayne Thompson did such a good job on the art, he's so good at capturing humour. I love working with him.

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silentgdyt.bsky.social•8 hours ago

do you see banana man

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miri100.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Sounds about right

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patflickner.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Exactly what I said when I read it

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stevemanulec.bsky.social•8 hours ago

@glyphjockey.bsky.social

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glyphjockey.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Epic

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lotuseaternsfw.bsky.social•17 hours ago

firing every cop is based as hell actually

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shinybluethings.bsky.social•16 hours ago

ACAB: All Cops Are Between-jobs

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tobyn.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The Beano has form https://bsky.app/profile/tobyn.bsky.social/post/3kenfjxqgwm2p

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tobyn.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And this from the age of UK political chaos
https://bsky.app/profile/tobyn.bsky.social/post/3kenhsg7cdn2c

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reporterrwright.ft.com•18 hours ago

I am feeling unusual pride in being a former employee of DC Thomson, publisher of the Beano. I worked for the Courier, their morning newspaper, for a year after graduating from university.

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merseytart.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Is that Walter the Softy doing his dirty work? I always knew he was a wrong 'un.

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balentheon.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Yep, he's always been a wrong un.

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nedhartley.com•20 hours ago

It is! He's Mayor Brown's son. There's a panel where Blight asks for staff and the Mayor says that he can have his son and his son's weird friend.

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flisty.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The BCU

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fireh9lly.bsky.social•19 hours ago

They rebooted Walter from the gender variant wimpy kid that Dennis used to bully for sociopathic reasons into one of those slimy nerd-bullies who feign good behaviour in front of adults to get away with terrorising other kids on the sly. It was a smart move

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fireh9lly.bsky.social•19 hours ago

By the way the current Dennis is the son of the 1980s Dennis

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mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Mind blown by the amount of thought that's gone into the Beano continuity

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dreadships.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Took my father to see the Beano exhibition that was in London a few years back, and we both loved that it had managed to change with the times whilst somehow not changing at all...

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drpaddysmith.bsky.social•18 hours ago

One of the consequences of the generational shift was "fixing" the original Dennis as Gen X, as evidenced by the PWEI vinyl in the attic

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fireh9lly.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It kind of happened organically when they realised they had to phase out the slipper-happy Dad since getting beaten isn't a daily fact of life for most British children any more. Dennis Sr is presented more as a well meaning but out of touch mid life crisis Dad still in touch with his menacing side

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nobodyiseveryone.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Best Post of the Year

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hutchingsmusic.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And yet Musk is still able to delude himself into thinking he's a misunderstood good guy here.

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martinstiff.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Ned, this is brilliant.

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nedhartley.com•19 hours ago

Ah thanks Martin! You can read the whole thing here: https://bsky.app/profile/drjennings.bsky.social/post/3ln6cia4ca225

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velvetandroid.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Oh my god, Blight's pose in the antepenultimate panel...!!

Unbelievable work.

And too perfect that all Bananaman has to do is subtly point out to Mayor Brown that someone else thinks he's the biggest cheese instead...
👏 👏

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martinstiff.bsky.social•19 hours ago

You’re a genius. Mind if I post this elsewhere?

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nedhartley.com•19 hours ago

Of course!!

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martinstiff.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Thanks man!

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stephenclarkehist.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Is it just me who thinks Walters odd friend bears more than a passing resemblance to a former U.K P.m.?

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stooryduster.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Hope you’ll forgive me, I took this as permission to post an excerpt of the pages to Mastodon Scot and credited yourself and Wayne Thompson. I’d forgotten the Beano could be topical from time to time. And me living just down the road from Dundee too.

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houfek.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I thought defunding the police was the other guys

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deerhook.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Bananaman is still a thing? Is THIS where he comes from?

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selkie-76.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Originally, he came from a comic titled "Nutty" back in the early '80s - 'twas the first comic I ever had a regular subscription to. ^_^

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amyfromiacon.bsky.social•19 hours ago

🤣

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sumarumi.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Everything about this is awesome. 👏 👏 👏

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eleventhearl.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Well the #Beano has certainly changed since I last read it (about 50 years ago, although I visited #DCThomson in #Dundee a couple of years ago). Pretty satirical.

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jindre.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Haven’t read the Beano in years, feel like I really need to start again. Excellent satire, teach the young‘uns 👍

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poetclare.bsky.social•11 hours ago

👏👏👏

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drneiljones.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Blimey. I've been rediscovering the joys of comic books recently but had no idea the Beano was so on point. Nice work!

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jackwoodgate.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I absolutely love this!
Seriously, it genuinely got me!

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andybolton.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This sounds vaguely familiar, are you sure it’s not plagiarised?

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eddiejc1.bsky.social•9 hours ago

DOPE is a funny acronym, but give them points for honesty. It's actually better than naming a brand new Cabinet level government department after an internet meme.

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