Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for August 27, 2020

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    SHIVA  about 4 years ago

    Finally, a funny strip!!!

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member about 4 years ago

    On Monday (8/24) my comment on that day’s Nancy was “This one feels like a 1950s Nancy.”

    This one too. (Also has a ‘60s vibe, as on second thought, so did Monday’s.)

    At least that’s how these feel to me. I use the word feel deliberately because I can’t quite articulate why I have that impression. Mysterious.

    I liked the Monday offering a lot… but this one I love. Two jokes today, or perhaps two improvisations on a single theme.

    Wonderful visuals in every panel. Could work even without the speech balloons. (As could the Monday strip.) The black-and-white rendering in the Spanish language Periquita is just as beautiful… and if you don’t read Spanish, you can get a sense of an un-captioned presentation.

    Lean, spare, economical, and funny.

    And a point about the guest appearance of the dreaded tech artifact. The joke couldn’t be nearly as effective if Agnes were holding up a drawing in panel 3. And a photo would make no sense… because why would there be a photograph handy?

    I feel (that word again) like something new is happening in Olivia Jaimes’ approach. I can’t pinpoint what, but I like it.

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    harkherp  about 4 years ago

    Shocking!!!!

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    cubswin2016  about 4 years ago

    It doesn’t take much to get kids excited.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 4 years ago

    VINCENT

    But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is?

    JULES

    What?

    VINCENT

    It’s the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there, we gotHere, but it’s just there’s a little difference.

    JULES

    Examples?

    VINCENT

    Alright, well you can walk into a movie theatre in Amsterdam and buy a beer.And I don’t mean in a paper cup. I’m talkin’ ‘bout a glass of beer. And inParis, you can buy a beer at MacDonald’s. You know what they call a QuarterPounder with Cheese in Paris?

    JULES

    They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

    VINCENT

    No, man, they got the metric system there, they wouldn’t know what the f***A Quarter Pounder is.

    JULES

    What’d they call it?

    VINCENT

    They call it Royale with Cheese.

    JULES (repeating)

    Royale with Cheese. What’d they call a Big Mac?

    VINCENT

    Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.

    JULES (repeating)

    Le Big Mac. What do they call a Whopper?

    VINCENT

    I dunno, I didn’t go into a Burger King.

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    dcdete.  about 4 years ago

    One of the world’s modern perplexing mysteries, illustrated here today. That doesn’t explain though why a Danish’s clothes for example look no different than say an American or Australian’s clothes. Why this specific difference?

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    Steverino Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Actually, outlets in most of Europe look like that too.

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    weirdme Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I see a connection! Otherwise, I don’t see the point to the 15 degree of outlets. They are all outlets to mee. The faces of Nancy and Sluggy are nice.

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    DCBakerEsq  about 4 years ago

    Now, let’s see how you look when we hold hands and stick in a paper clip …

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member about 4 years ago

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    Another especially good one today from OJ!!!!!! Thank you!

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    goodman.rv1  about 4 years ago

    Since Olivia Jaimes took over Nancy, I don’t find any humor in it at all. I still read it for old times’ sake because I have been reading Nancy since Ernie Bushmiller wrote it. Nancy was always a happy girl, and I don’t like the way she is written now.

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    LOLBeth  about 4 years ago

    It’s good for kids these days to have an outlet.

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    Kip W  about 4 years ago

    Holy pareidolia!

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    Kip W  about 4 years ago

    Two circles wouldn’t have been enough, and four would have been too many.

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    InquireWithin  about 4 years ago

    As she spoke, the other two started doing their best Reddy Kilowatt impersonations. (They were, after all, old enough to remember him.)

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    asrialfeeple  about 4 years ago

    Maybe this is an outlet for creativity.

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Nice.

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    Ninette  about 4 years ago

    No good without prongs.

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    tad1  about 4 years ago

    Clever. :)

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