>>116002544While that specific celebrity crossover was a welcome breath of fresh air, the rest of it... well, it was shit. Quite literally, in some cases - a LOT of comics in The Dandy ended on fart jokes. It got so bad that Dandy newcomers Kid Cops actually shopped an irate father who had forbidden his son from reading The Dandy any more, because the dad didn't like all the fart jokes. They defended the change in quality by telling the dad that he'd laughed at one of his own farts once, so that made all the fart jokes okay.
Look, I didn't write it, did I?
Anyway, The Dandy soldiered on as best it could, even though out of all the regular strips, only Bananaman and Harry Hill's Real-Life Adventures in TV Land were any good, and Harry only lasted until Christmas 2011 (TV Burp would close down soon after, mainly because Harry couldn't deal with the stress of writing new stuff every single week).
With half its decent strips gone, The Dandy limped along until the end of 2012. As a sop to the fans who'd watched their beloved comic turn to absolute dogshit, they got a good artist to draw Dan's final adventure in print. They tried to revitalise The Dandy as an online-only title, but that only lasted another year. A nation mourned, ignoring the fact that they hadn't bought a copy in bloody ages.
Nowadays The Dandy exists purely as an occasional nostalgia grab, with annuals and summer specials and what have you. I'm not sure how well the sell, but I guess some people remember shit like Corporal Clott and Keyhole Kate fondly.
