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I have always had a bit of a prejudice toward Dennis the Menace as I'm of English origin, and associate the name with a very, very different character. Of late, I've had to re-evaluate my warm, nostalgic feelings for the old Beano and Dandy comics that were some of my first forays into sequential storytelling. I tried to read some recently, some fairly recent issues actually, and they're so, so racist. I'm a bit shocked, to tell you the truth, but it really does actually highlight a fairly noticeable difference between comic produced by English-speaking countries. The comics of the UK definitely have a different take on race, and its depiction, than do those in North America. Though, in the case of today's comic, the take on race is that there is no race. This is a very white comic.
Anyway, it was a couple of cute Christmas stories about Dennis being a little shit and then learning the value of being kind and generous. Which, I feel, is the basic plotline of every Dennis the Menace comic I've ever read.
More to follow.
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