Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for August 27, 2020

Finally, a funny strip!!!

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.

Shocking!!!!

It doesn’t take much to get kids excited.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Holy pareidolia!

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

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

Maybe this is an outlet for creativity.

Nice.

No good without prongs.

Clever. :)