Summer Specials rebooted

Summer for most British boys and girls growing up in the nineteen seventies and eighties meant going away and the ritual of buying Summer Specials of our favourite comics to  read and laugh at during that six weeks or so of school hols.

While I had mainly boys and co-ed comics I did manage to see some girls comics despite the very rigid gender code enforced restrictions of that era and how that affected feminine boys like me so comics such as Jinty were not unknown even if we couldn't possess them.

The market for comics for older girls as with boys declined during the nineteen nineties as glossy tween and teen lifestyle magazines such as Bliss! and More! took hold but this year Rebellion Publications who own the rights to a number of now deceased comics and comic strip series made a new Summer Jinty and Tammy summer special with all new content.

These were stories set in schools that talked of friendship and tricks with the one more modern take added being Rocky of the Rovers, that rectified  an injustice of the era I grew up in that girls were not allowed to play football in the we as boys even feminine boys did.

In the rebooted world of Roy of the Rovers following on from the acclaim given to Jamie Johnson novels for the new series of Roy of the Rovers, the Roy we knew and loved was rebooted as modern teen wanting to be signed up Rocky has been born as his sister and like modern girls plays football too

I'm glad Rebellion care to bring back a quality comic for Summer Special that is relevant to todays girls (and feminine boys).