Talk:Viz (comics)

message: One thing I've always wondered about: Letterbocks. Almost every issue has letters that refer to other letters in the same issue. Are these people psychic, or are the letters faked by the Viz staff? I know that not all letters are, because I myself had a letter in once, but I was wondering if any are. JIP | Talk 21:48, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a gag, and one of their better observed ones. The spoof is that similar pages in 'real' magazines are often patently written by staff. Do you realy think there are that many mentals in the popularion writing inane letters to the press? I like to think not, though, that said.... Coil00 23:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I think it used to be that the vast majority were written by the editors - possibly to the extent of having an entire issue without a "real" letter. I wouldn't be surprised if it was still over 50% "fake" these days. — sjorford (talk) 16:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The letters are apparently a mix of real and faked. Chris Donald elaborates in his book 'Rude Kids', which should probably be added in this entry.  193.195.87.117 09:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Letterbocks

message: I seem to recall that "D.C. Comics" (publishers of The Dandy and The Beano and Jack and Jill and Playhour etc) instigated legal action against Viz in the mid 90s? Due to Viz's obscene parodies of strips such as "Little Plums" and "Wanker Watson" ("wow! jazz mags!" etc etc). Hilarious stuff. Can anyone with some details make mention of it in the article?--feline1 23:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: DC Comics are American and publish stuff like Superman. DC Thompson are the owners of the Beano etc. After Viz were threatened several times, John Brown (the publisher at the time) promised DC Thompson Viz wouldnt make fun of their characters any more, on behalf of the writers, he only told the writers later though. They got angry at this and decided to mock DC Thompson themselves, creating a character called "DC Thompson, the humourless Scottish git", who gets angry when he see's things like "Little plums" for sale in a fruit shop. DC Thompson responded to this in the Dandy by reviving their old characters "The Jocks and the Geordies" (Viz being based in Newcastle), in a one-off strip in which the Geordies steal all the Jocks ideas during a cartooning competition, because they can't come up with anything funny themselves. Apparently relations between the two companies improved somewhat after that, though expressly blatant parodies of DCT characters are still a thing of the past in Viz today.86.145.229.205 (talk) 17:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wanker Watson

message: The list of notable strips seems quite long and there are a lot of red-links to many of them. I'm thinking the whole Viz article would be neater if the Notable Strips section was just a brief paragraph mentioning and outlining the main ones (Roger Mellie, Sid the Sexist, etc), then with a link to the Category of Viz Characters. Otherwise the majority of the article is just a long list. Does anyone agree? Robert Mercer 20:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.--Crestville 14:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree.--ML5 15:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate article for strips 

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message: I've edited the recently added bit about Terry Jones providing the foreward to the published Profanisaurus compendiums, as I can only see Terry Jones being credited on the 2002 edition and my first edition heirloom quality 1998 print has no forward at all. Juux (talk) 14:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Profanisaurus editions 

message: Some of the early strips - as featured in "The Big Hard One" - are credited variously to "Jim Biz" and "The Doc aka Johnny Shiloe".  Anyone know who they are in Real Life? Mr Larrington (talk) 13:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe their real names are James Biz and John Shiloe.DavidFarmbrough (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Contributors 

message: I have proposed that the unreferenced Rock Lobster be merged into this article.  Narthring (talk  • contribs) 17:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Merger proposal

message: I remember Chris Donald on a TV show (Jonathan Ross show) slagging off the Scottish comic actor. He said that back at the start he went from pub to pub in Newcastle selling hand drawn copies of Viz. In one bar, Coltrane was there drinking after a production. When Donald approached his group, the actor grabbed his comics, screwed them up and threw the copies on the floor, telling Donald to "fuck off"!
:Coltrane's such a little tart after a few shandies. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  "... up-and-coming fat bastard. Those were the days" Martinevans123 (talk) 14:16, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Robbie Coltrane

message: According to the article, Viz ran a story about McCartney having a "gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy", which was called "BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas". I remember it - Mr T had gone mad, cut off McCartney's testicles and converted them into a playground toy - I recall it was called "Crackers Baracus Turns Macca's Knackers Into Clackers".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.11.91.232 (talk) 14:02, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A gross violation of WP:BLP if ever I saw it. BA would be furious. (are you on commission?)  Martinevans123 (talk) 14:13, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul McCartney's knackers 

message: Remember this is not a fanzine entry but an encyclopedia. Anything we use here needs to be verifiable to a valid third-party source. The alternative is to have this article degenerate further towards being a collection of fan-sourced trivia. Anything that mentions a living person needs absolutely to conform to this, and there are additional safeguards. --John (talk) 10:39, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiability 

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replies: text: Do it yourself, you lazy bastard. We're not your fucking slaves. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Last year's winner of the "Most Gracious Talk Page Reply" award. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: Farmer Palmer was to be merged into Viz, but this has not yet happened. Thegreatgrabber (talk) 21:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Do it yourself, you lazy bastard. We're not your fucking slaves. --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Last year's winner of the "Most Gracious Talk Page Reply" award. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:07, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farmer Palmer Merger 

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