Tom Brown's School Days Great Game", the character whom Fraser named Harry Flashman reads "Tom Brown's School Days", which refers to his youth, and its popularity causes him some social troubles. Fraser's Flashman novels also include some other characters from "Tom Brown's School Days", for example George Speedicut and Tom Brown in the book "Flashman's Lady". Flashman also encounters the character of "Scud" East twice, first in "Flashman at the Charge", when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War, and again in "Flashman in the Great Game", at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Tom
Tom Thug Tom at school, the strip underwent a title change to Tom Thug's Skooldayz (a spoof in name only of "Tom Brown's Schooldays"). There, Tom Thug continued to run until December 1999 ("Buster"'s final issue), although the last couple of years were reprints of earlier stories due to budget cutbacks by the publisher. However, during its run, "Tom Thug" had become one of the comic's most popular strips and even replaced the lead character "Buster" on the cover on occasion. In the final issue of the comic at the beginning of 2000 in a segment written and drawn by Jack Oliver,