…’cause the last two months’ sheepy offerings have seemed somewhat maudlin (even by usual standards). Erstwhile wry humour and colourful whimsical melancholy have been replaced by hints of a terminal disappearing ..and faded tsunami waves about to engulf the whole world.

Allegorically symbolic, or just can’t-be-assed?

It, nevertheless, seems a bit full on for an MTB mag that exists largely to inform the world of the latest shade of Oakleys to buy. 😯

Was it not ever thus? Well apart from maybe the first couple of years maybe? Rarely but MBUK cos even though it is better now than it has been it still isn’t really aimed at me. I did buy this months as I couldn’t resist the Tesco WMB/MBUK for £6 odd.

Many years ago I only bought MBUK for Mint but managed to knock it on the head.

It does amaze me that they continue with it as it would seem to be very deep (or trying to give the impression of being very deep).

dunno

I think they recognise that the majority of their readers over 20 (or maybe 30) would probably stop buying it if Mint disappeared.

that and they enjoy confusing the children who read it.

as I couldn’t resist the Tesco WMB/MBUK for £6 odd.

What’s that? Can you get subs cheap with clubcard vouchers?

dont care. I think it is the most overarted thing in the world

6 posts in and no mention of a keyring, you lot are slacking! 🙂

they weren’t drawn as maudlin, that’s just your interpretation, is there anything you’d like to talk about?

6 posts in and no mention of a keyring, you lot are slacking!

Well, I was going to, but then I thought I’d just put it off for a while.

Might post something in a few months or a year or so…

Yeah… but the last two strips have read in a very empty t.e.r.m.i.n.a.l. kindof way.

This month’s faded yellow unfinished tsunami wave has actually left me quite haunted. But then again, I’m easily overwhelmed by most things.. 😉

Mint: Something really, really bad is coming (badly paraphrased)

Final pane: Mint and friends riding into a Tsunami wave about to engulf everything.

That’s literally about it.

Heavy dude. 😯

you lot are slacking!

Well, best to leave the slacking to the pros.

i need to learn to draw better (some would that is ever so), but that’s just a big tsunami wave of mud (with apologies to a famous picture by Hokusai), merely signifying the onset of Winter

damn, having to explain cartoons never really works

Ha!

Okayee.. I feel better now. I geddit.

A mud-brown Hokusai Tsunami would not’ve looked nice at all. 😆

Too much doom and gloom in the news I think has blinkered me to anything outside this outlook of late.. 😕

I had kind of interpreted the strip a bit differently.. Perhaps I’m the maudlin one 😉

I read it as the end of Summer rather than the end of Mint, which is odd as I’m not in the “over 30” group refered to up there :-p

Question for Jo while he’s here, the caption at the top of Mint, where do you get the quotes from? I go through phases of getting them all, then go for ages not recognising a single one!

I think they’re song lyrics.. at least they used to be

‘I love you, I’m not gonna crack’ etc..

hmmm, the tsunami was painted muddy, but the colour often goes awry between the original and the page so it cold just look faded, i’ve not got the magazine to see

the words along the top are usually song lyrics, there used to be a competition to guess them, google has kind of put a stop to that

Well, I was going to, but then I thought I’d just put it off for a while.

Might post something in a few months or a year or so…

😀

Very good Elf; very, very good…

Be careful though – you know what happened when I, er, um, best not mention it actually…

+1 Junky.

Chapeau Elfy.

I could well be actually printed ‘muddy’ looking too. It’s just the original is so famous, I think my brain ‘saw’ it as a blue wave and simply interpreted this as meaning that the (/Mint’s) world was about to end.

I’ll have to look again now!

Nice to know it’s just a spot of mud we’ve got to deal with then, eh. I can handle that. 🙂

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I think they’re song lyrics.. at least they used to be

‘I love you, I’m not gonna crack’ etc..

Lithium by Nirvana, hardly uplifting…

Heh! You like that one innit Bully? 😀

Must point out though, that I’ve always enjoyed Mint Sauce in fact for ooh must be twenty years or so??!

And my mum would nick my MBUK just to read the Mint Sauce carton. She thought it was great too. 🙂

I’ve actually got a keyring too!

No you can’t have it. 😐

Did the cat brush survive?

Still luv u Jo…..xxxx

Always loved the Mint Sauce catoons although have long since stoped buying MBUK. Actually still have a framed MS poster on the wall at home (the one with the ball bearing ending up under the fridge – quite fitting for me) and a MS mug!
JoB – have you considered producing a book of all the Mint Sauce catoons from over the years plus some new work. Sort of like you can buy the Garfield / Fred Basset / Simons Cat annuals around Xmas. Reckon it would be the perfect stocking filler for the mtbkers?

have you considered producing a book of all the Mint Sauce catoons

‘Real Soon Now’ I suspect will be the answer 😉

Try looking here:

http://www.thisiswhy.ip3.co.uk/

Perhaps he’s just worried that being a talking, cycling cartoon sheep just isn’t niche enough any more.

I remember one issue in the mid 90’s when there wasn’t a mint sauce, but a substitute strip by tym manley and someone else. Few months later I found in a crumpled copy of Escort or something that the same two created somewhat ‘ruder’ cartoons!

Dirty bastards! 😡

that ‘someone else’ would be Hunt Emerson, UK comic artist royalty, quite an honour for him to draw the strip when i completely f**ked up a deadline, he and the ex MBUK editor Tym Manley worked on Firkin together for aeons

may this thread forever be remembered as the first in which Elfinsafety said something funny

I have the Mint Sauce strip where death is controlling him on a scalextric track through the forest on the back of my old bedroom door. When I stay at my parents and use the room, I see it and always smile thinking back to my teen years. 🙂

…the one with the ball bearing ending up under the fridge…

That was quite possibly one of the most memorable observations of my youth, which still frequently enters my conscience when I’m in my garage with the bikes. It never fails to make me see the funny side of dropping a bolt / washer / whatever into the abyss that is my garage floor. 🙂

I loved mint, too, but I don’t remember the ball bearing one.

Anyone got a pdf…?

Anyone got a pdf…?

Here we go again! 😀

(Gets supplies in. Makes self comfy. Settles in for the Long Haul)

Have a look here – and it was a bolt, not a ball bearing! Funny how time clouds the memories.

Being as everything written on t’internet is true, it does say the site’s done with JoB’s permission, so trust it’s ok to link to…

“A bad case of fridge-suck” – Feb ’98. Could have sworn it was years before then. Time eh…?

When did mint sauce go colour? I have a stack of MBUKs (hopefully) still in the parents loft, starting Jan 92, was subscribed for years, should dig them out next time and have a look.