Update! Madvertisements back on track?

I said in my previous post that madvertisements are now becoming a waste of space. Well - the latest Dandy has proved me wrong! This weeks madvertisement was drawn by the amazing Nigel Auchterlounie (artist of Jibber and Steve and The Bogies) for Buck Palace B&B! There are five wonderfully drawn boxes with lots of words in each one! This is defiantly my favorite Madvertisement that has been in the Dandy for quite a while and I hope that they stay like this!

So pick up a Dandy now and have a laugh! Dandy 17th September 2011 - £1.50!

Madvertisments - a wate of space?

The oldest Madvertisement from a comic I've got is one Oink comic (#7 - 26th July - 8th August 1896). There were fake advertisements before this, but this is the earliest I could find actually titled 'MADVERTISEMENT'). Oink had many fake advertisements through it's time, and they were brilliant with good artwork and were actually funny! Here is an example from the 1988 Oink book.

When D.C Thomson relaunched The Dandy almost a year ago they also included a full page Madvertisement. Here are two of them, one from #3508 (top) and one from #3549 (bottom).

So looking at them now, are they still worth having in one whole page or are they simply been used as an excuse to fill up a few gaps in the comic? This Yoda one, although the artwork is good, has very little writing and isn't actually funny. But then again, I've never seen Star Wars...