The Dandy/YMMV

For The Dandy Comic Book:

• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: The near-universal reaction to Dandy Xtreme, the Totally Radical Retool, which very nearly killed the title off completely.
  • Some have also said this about the rebooted Dandy. Sometimes it feels more like reading some Web Comics. Some boring webcomics. Others have voiced disapproval of the increase in Toilet Humour, such as in the chronically unfunny - and thankfully unrepeated - The Last Windbender.
    • And let's not forget the frankly weird new looks for old favourites Korky the Cat, Bananaman and Desperate Dan.
  • Uh oh. ABC readership figures reveal a 48% drop from July-December 2010 to January-June 2011. The readers are voting with their money it seems, yelling a loud chorus of They Changed It, Now It Sucks. That could prove to be the Franchise Killer.
• Unfortunate Implications / Values Dissonance: being a Cowboy, Desperate Dan is pretty much set in the rootin'est, tootin'est depiction of the Wild West ever published in the UK. Of course, the also means that he lives right next to Injun Country. As a result, modern Dandy editors consider Dan something of an embarrassment, and have even tried to put people off Dan by making him a complete idiot, and when that didn't work they "retired" Dan, which thankfully didn't last long. Possibly due to the fact that the percentage of Native Americans living in the United Kingdom is not very large so their being represented fairly in a comic book makes not terribly important in the UK, or maybe even the fact that Dan is a fundamentally great idea, any attempt to remove Dan from the lineup is met with great condemnation.
• We're Still Relevant, Dammit!: Mostly Averted with the new reboot. Dandy Xtreme... not so much.