First off, May 31 saw the Schools Out bi monthly edition of Monster Fun come out which as the title suggests has the majority of the stories being centred around that ritual where school takes a break while (hopefully) we do get away.
The resurrected comic continues to bring in a actual child base which distinguishes it from other more retro for adults attempts at doing new specials such as those for the girls comic Jinty and clearly Rebellion Publishing are putting a lot into building up a new audience.
It relaunched in time for Halloween last year and resumed in April following a bi Monthly cycle which makes for a better quality comic given comics aren't 70p or 1.50 anymore given printing costs going up and the now standard full colour rather than muted colour newsprint we had.
Given many must be tossed away I do wonder if that was a misstep in a digital age of read and toss aside for the next weekly edition.
Meanwhile in The Beano it has reported Pup Parade, the cartoon strip that featured dogs many of Class IIb's pet dogs is set to finish in July after Lew Stringers excellent work in a new mini strip from April without official explination.
One thought I have is given how in some communities Dogs are seen as "unclean" to the point they would not be allowed to be pets or to be say cars and the continuing additions of often new children from the Indian Sub-continent to IIb's class as part of the attempt to diversify and make more inclusive that series that originally debuted in 1954, if it may be seen the dogs get in the way and so axed.
It wasn't as if every child in that class had one Cuthbert Cringyworthy for instance was never given one way back in 1972.
We'll see what replaces it in due course.
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