Revealed: The Menace that Mashed Madonna!

By John Freeman on 27 February 2015

The Beano‘s Dennis the Menace was the cause of Madonna‘s fall from the stage at the Brit Awards, DC Thomson has revealed, joining in with the fun at the expense of a shell-shocked Madge, after her swift decent down the stairs.

The fail that heard the nation gasp this week has been the subject of many a hilarious meme, as videos of Madonna’s stage diving antics find themselves playing on repeat and cartoons in the national press.

As was widely reported, the veteran material girl fell foul of her own costume at Wednesday night’s Brit Awards when she was unceremoniously tugged down a flight of stairs.

After a moment’s stunned silence, the world responded the only way it knew how, with a barrage of internet memes, featuring wrestlers, Toy Story and even Gerard Butler’s King Leonidas from the film, 300.

Now, The Beano has weighed in on the hilarity, with its own take on the evening’s proceedings in two cartoons that featured in the Daily Mail revealing Dennis the Menace as the source of the gaff, with a firm grasp on the pop-star’s cape!

• Follow the fun on Twitter with the hashtag #britofamenace

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.