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• They Changed It Now It Sucks: A common complaint among older readers of newer comics. For some, the change of dimensions of the annual for the 2011 edition was pretty pointless and generally horrible.
  • Serious enough that Nigel Dobbyn, the artist for Billy the Cat, quit, resulting in the superhero's absence from the 2012 annual.
• Toy Ship: Dennis the Menace — Minnie the Minx.
  • Daniel "Danny" Deathshead and Toots from The Bash Street Kids.
• Unfortunate Implications: Biffo the Bear's human aunt. Bananagirl is Bananaman's neice according to the Beano webiste but Bananaman is a child and his strips never show his siblings so that implies one of his siblings may have had a child and been disowned because of it. Which would also make sense as to why Bananaman never features in Super School strips.
• Values Dissonance: An old comic strip featured in the 1940 was entitled Hard-Nut the Nigger. Also the character Little Peanut from the late 30s to early 40s who was a stereotypical poor black boy who appeared on the logo of the first issue but did not reappear on the cover when the first issue's cover was made a poster in 2010. Also the character Polly in the Lord Snooty strip looks unfortunately like a chimpanzee and the late 1950's strip entitled Pom-Pom the boy who brightens darkest africa.
• Were Still Relevant Dammit: Robbie Rebel, the short-lived hip and contemporary version of Dennis the Menace.
  • Dennis the Menace inexplicably gaining trainers around 1995 can be seen as a stab at this, quickly dropped in favour of his traditional boots.