Li'l Abner by Al Capp for August 25, 2011

Is there a possibility that this was printed backwards?

These strips have been repeat 5 or 6 times on comics.com (before gocomics) so anything to mix it would be fun. These strips only get to a point and start again. Try using your mirror.

They keep jumping around with this strip, please get it chronological order and reverse the mirror image printing, actually reading what they say helps.

Read it in the mirror. Who’s kidnapping whom?

It doesn’t speak well for the proofreader…

Proofreader?? Shirley you jest!

Download it. Open it in Windows Paint. Click on Rotate. Click on Flip Horizontal.

What a novel idea. Are you going to print all your strips in reverse?

I don’t know if anyone will need this, but just in case there’s anyone without a mirror or image-flipping software handy:

Panel 1Eyepatch Thug: Quit kiddin’ – C’mon!

Abner: Jest a minute, fellas. Before yo’ kidnaps me, Ah gotta leave mah Aunt Bessie a note so she won’t worry ’bout me.

Fedora Thug: Another wise crack, an’ I’ll plug ya!

Panel 2Abner: Sorry, Ah gotta take these shootin’ irons away fum yo’, but Ah must write thet note. Now, drop ’em!

Panel 3Abner: Hope Ah didn’t hurt yo’ boys. Thet wuz a li’l mountain rasslin’ trick. Ah’ll teach it to yo’ some time. Now, jist wait thar while Ah writes thet note.

Panel 4FIVE MINUTES LATERAbner: Awright, fellas. Now yo’ kin start the kidnappin’. Let’s git!

Thanks.

The scans are so blurry anyway, it took me a couple of seconds to figure out this one was backwards…

Thanks for the translation. This is about the point I began reading the strip a month or so ago & then 1 day it looped back to Dog Patch earlier in the story. Even when the print is not backward, it is difficult to read.

I figgered theyd be backwards again

Gee, if this was a REAL newspaper, you could lift off a “forward” image with Silly Putty!

Backwards again?