Comments on: New Dennis & Gnasher coming on the Beeb …. Softies beware! (maybe) http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/new-dennis-gnasher-coming-on-the-beeb-softies-beware-maybe/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joe http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/new-dennis-gnasher-coming-on-the-beeb-softies-beware-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-255922 Joe Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:53:34 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=15728#comment-255922 Good on you, Lew, we strongly desire that you continue in the fine footsteps of Ken Reid and Leo Baxendale and keep corrupting the comics reading youth, the kids have never had a problem with it and the only adults who panic about it are probably the ones who weren't given a proper comics and cartoons centred upbringing, poor souls. I read the Beano every week as a kid, watched endless Tom & Jerry cartoons and yet I almost never hit anyone in the face with a frying pan or launch a giant-toothed gnashing dog at someone using an oversize novelty Acme catapult (or really dogapult in that case), so clearly it doesn't encourage such behaviour. At least, not every day. Good on you, Lew, we strongly desire that you continue in the fine footsteps of Ken Reid and Leo Baxendale and keep corrupting the comics reading youth, the kids have never had a problem with it and the only adults who panic about it are probably the ones who weren’t given a proper comics and cartoons centred upbringing, poor souls. I read the Beano every week as a kid, watched endless Tom & Jerry cartoons and yet I almost never hit anyone in the face with a frying pan or launch a giant-toothed gnashing dog at someone using an oversize novelty Acme catapult (or really dogapult in that case), so clearly it doesn’t encourage such behaviour. At least, not every day.

]]> By: Lew Stringer http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/new-dennis-gnasher-coming-on-the-beeb-softies-beware-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-255901 Lew Stringer Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:44:44 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=15728#comment-255901 Sigh. The national press love to fabricate these anti-pc myths don't they? Like the "Desperate Dan no longer eats cow pies" tale, this story isn't true either. If they bothered to check out the Dennis and Gnasher site they'd see that he's referred to as "the number one MENACE (my emphasis) in Beanotown" and the vid shows Gnasher biting someone's arm. Hardly the sanitized cartoon the Mail and The Sun claim it is. The trouble with the anti-pc brigade is they always compare comics/cartoons of today to those of their youth and assume any changes have happened overnight. Truth is British comic characters have evolved gradually over the decades. That said, not only does The Beano still feature catapults but it even gave one away as a free gift the other week! "Politically correct" my a***. Sigh. The national press love to fabricate these anti-pc myths don’t they? Like the “Desperate Dan no longer eats cow pies” tale, this story isn’t true either.

If they bothered to check out the Dennis and Gnasher site they’d see that he’s referred to as “the number one MENACE (my emphasis) in Beanotown” and the vid shows Gnasher biting someone’s arm. Hardly the sanitized cartoon the Mail and The Sun claim it is.

The trouble with the anti-pc brigade is they always compare comics/cartoons of today to those of their youth and assume any changes have happened overnight. Truth is British comic characters have evolved gradually over the decades. That said, not only does The Beano still feature catapults but it even gave one away as a free gift the other week! “Politically correct” my a***.

]]> By: Adam Cadwell http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/new-dennis-gnasher-coming-on-the-beeb-softies-beware-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-255897 Adam Cadwell Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:13:36 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=15728#comment-255897 Dennis sounds like Jane Horrocks. Dennis sounds like Jane Horrocks.

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