Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for October 25, 2018

You walked into that one, Nancy!

“Worth it!”

Be careful of questions whose answers you might not like.

Usually my “lol” is more like “breathe sharply out my nose while smiling” but today’s strip made me really “laugh out loud” !

How long before Sluggo gets a prescription for Metformin and Jardiance? That candy corn shirt is a great thing to wear when getting a blood draw for an A1C.

That’s the best Sluggo line I can remember.

Great comeback, Sluggo.

Shade!

…his corpse was never found.

I love this one. It’s deep.

Sluggo being lit?

Whatever that means.

Chuckle!

sluggo can dish it!

Never go fishing for compliments, Nancy. You might get the boot!

Flashback to Homer Simpson when he’s told he can’t go to Moe’s Bar any more: “But it’s my only relief from the drudgery of work and family!!”

Sweet!

Only a momentary memory lapse.

SCHWING! :D

There’s a book that convinces me that Olivia Jaimes’ terrific work on Nancy marks a return to the strip’s original greatness, but revivified for the 21st Century. It does that by showing why and how the original strip worked and allows me to see the same kind of achievement in Ms. Jaimes’ offerings.

It’s called How to Read Nancy and it claims that one can learn everything needed to understand and to create comics by studying a single three panel Nancy strip from August 8, 1959.

Here’s a link to the strip under consideration…http://images.tcj.com/2017/11/How-to-Read-Nancy.jpg

It’s the best book I’ve ever found on comic theory, analysis, creation, and simple enjoyment of a comic strip for what it is. The Amazon entry for the book quotes ecstatic reviews from multiple sources from The Comics Journal to The New York Times Book Review.I think that commenters who dislike the current series could learn a great deal from this book and enrich their experience of ALL comics.

Sluggo, so rude : )

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Although Sluggo took the rather obvious route in his final statement to Nancy…. it was indeed a strong one! I am not sure, however, if in the long run Sluggo should have took the opportunity to poke fun at Nancy….. the look on her face….. gadds…. I would not want to make her angry! :)

In a bigger picture way… I can definitely understand the sentiments about the candy. At times, I have needed the minor pleasure of a candy, or a good meal, or a beer, or my pipe in that same fashion…. to mollify a mind made sad and chaotic by a rough day.

Change candy to Beer…and Nancy to my wife…oh yea I get it Sluggo

OK, Sluggo’s comment at the end was rude, unpleasant, insulting, inconsiderate, etc. But intentional? Look at the vacant expression on his face. He seems lost in what passes for him as a philosophical reverie. I mean, the statement about personal struggle in the first panel is sad. Maybe he’s being self centered here, but I don’t see any meanness in him.

We need to get the story about Fritzi’s double mastectomy or the new artist should learn to draw breasts.

Sometimes candy is the only thing that makes “I miss Hentai Fritzi” comments bearable.

Candy, or Andorian ale.