Tom Thug
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Tom Thug was a long-running British comic strip, first published in
The strip proved popular enough to transfer to Buster when Oink! folded in 1988. The editor Allen Cummings asked for a focus on stories of Tom at school and the strip underwent a title change to Tom Thug's Skooldayz (a spoof in name only of
In the final issue of the comic at the beginning of 2000 in a segment written and drawn by Jack Oliver, Tom Thug was revealed to have possessed great intelligence after passing all of his exams with flying colours; Tom, who had always prided himself on being a brainless bully, is disappointed to learn that he is in fact a brainy bully. However this was not the ending that the strip's creator Lew Stringer would have given the character.