Talk:Sparky/@comment-3091825-20101001141645

One reason I like the early years is the amount of variety you got! If you compare the 1973-77 era, it is almost all `fun` strips with the only `adventutre` strip content bieng `Invisible Dick` or `Mr Bubbles` reprints!

I can't agree with Rab's `"Dead Wood" theory though, rather an emphasis more on fun strips! The big overhaul of 1967 gave more emphasis to reality based `fun` characters too! This thing of Sparky comic becoming a virtually different comic from Feb 1969 is something I just cannot see! All the new (nine of them) intake failed miserably with only I. Spy and the `Sparky People` becoming sucessfuul!

If the comic were on a thoroughly new path then why bring back `Davey Spacer` and `Big Billy Bigg` post feb 69? We also got `The Misery King` post 69 a piece of fantasy that would be perfectly at home in 1965 easily!

The real departure-was the dropping of all those interminally tedious `animal` based strips that peppered the 1965-67 era so heavily!