e/Ratz (comic strip)

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has gloss	eng: Ratz is a comic strip currently appearing in UK comic The Beano, which first appeared on August 19, 2006. It was developed by artist Hunt Emerson to replace the retired strip Little Plum, which he had previously worked on since 2002. The stories follow the everyday lives of a group of rats who live in the sewers beneath Beanotown, the main characters being Keef (the nominal leader), Rod (a spiv), and Herman, their naive sidekick. Others characters make occasional appearances. Hunt Emerson was the original artist, with Laura Howell inking in his pencils from October 2006 onwards and on occasion drawing the strip. Strangely in the Beano Annual 2008, Ratz is changed to "Its a Ratz Life!". This was because the usual Ratz characters were not the main focus, but instead a pair of Ratz setting up home together (on a rubbish dump), and this strip was done before the strip first appeared in the comic itself, when the strip was going to be given that title.
lexicalization	eng: Ratz
instance of	c/Beano strips