Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for November 07, 2018

Why on earth would ANYONE join a “club” they HATED – especially a kid? If I joined a book club – it would be because I enjoyed reading new books – and discussing them with other enthusiasts. If I joined a knitting club or a sewing club or a history re-enactment club – it would be because I enjoyed knitting or sewing or re-enacting historic events. The whole point of kids discussing how much they hate going to meetings of a club which they joined totally escapes me!

You can’t hide that emotion from the perceptive Sluggo!

I miss the old Nancy. I just checked back in, to see if my opinion would change, but, nope ain’t happin’.

A lot of times, parents are the ones to put kids in crap like this.

This is such a self aware strip. It knows what it is. It calls attention to conventional elements of the medium and makes them do double duty. Can pictures “rhyme”? Can one design element be a visual pun on another use of the same element in a different context? The point is made that the little up-curved lines that represent her eyes in panel three and her eyebrows in panel four are identical to a cartoon representation of a smile. It’s the same line.

And if we say of a real person that her eyes are “smiling” we mean something entirely different. And I doubt if the sentence, “Your eyebrows are smiling,” has ever been written or spoken in the history of the English language. It’s almost as if Sluggo is some kind of Zen master who looks at the cartoon world he inhabits from our, the readers’, point of view, saying, “You’re a cartoon character! You don’t have real eyes, you have little squiggles that represent eyes!” Except when they’re just dots.

This is one of the reasons I find it amusing that some pine for the “prettier” Fritzi. She consisted of a cluster of design elements that stand for a certain notion of “pretty,” but if a life sized three dimensional being who looked exactly like the illustrations of that Fritzi were meet you on the street, she wouldn’t be pretty at all. You’d be horrified at her appearance. For example, a real person would have teeth. That Fritzi always looked as if she had a bar of ivory soap in her mouth.

And don’t even get me started on the weird distortion of humanity that is the Barbie doll.

Like a Peanuts stip once said “You sure have pretty eyes, Lucy. They’re like little dabs of india ink”

We’re back on the robotics project arc!

I notice Nancy’s polka-dot skirt has changed to pants.

“Your eyes, your eyes are like a pair of emoticons.”

I’m starting a SkyNet Club. Just in case.

LoisG….. Nancy does not hate robotics. She a) loves to grouse about things (perhaps somewhat similarly to how you like to grouse about Nancy), b) she bristles against conformity not of her own choice, and c) she dislikes requirements. None of those three things says to me that she hates robotics or Robotics Club.

“…And it froze that way 50 years ago. Let that be a warning to you, children.”

red pokedotted slacks replacing the classic Nancy skirt ….. what’s next to go ….. the hair bow? This reboot is wrong in so many ways