 ), it was perhaps too intelligent for its target audience – its disappearance was a great loss to the comic.Many readers failed to understand, amongst many things in the strip that went clear over their heads, that the two main characters were drawn in the likeness of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and that the strip's humour was based on the movies of Laurel & Hardy.After only five months – foreshadowing many, many reshuffles to come – "Smash!"