At least *she* likes it! And doesn’t have to come up with a punch line.
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I don’t see any random absurdism here: the whole strip carefully follows the precepts as given in the first panel, with a corresponding increase for each subsequent statement. The final punchline is that the character on the right thinks that they are in agreement, when in fact they were miscommunicating the whole time.
P.S. Reconstructing most of the damaged dialog:
Panel 2: I like that, as long as the wa …. one is not too heavy-handed. (I cannot reconstruct the third line.) Panel 3: As long as the author isn’t lazy. (A car honk is believable, but far too simple.) Panel 4: You don’t want the reason for the miscommunication to be ridiculous. (An interruption by a beeping watch is just silly.) Panel 5: It needs to be believable. (A foghorn is not rational on land nor in the sun.)
Kilby, for Panel 2, I’d posit:
As long as the way it’s done is not too heavy-handed.
@ Phil (3) – Thanks a lot, that looks perfect! (The “meow” bomb is anything but subtle.)
P.S. Whoever he/she is, I think “Olivia Jaimes” deserves a heck of a lot more credit for the way she has dusted off “Nancy”, and turned an antiquated relic of the 1950s into a readable comic strip, with much more depth than it ever used to have.
Kilby: I’ll give Nancy a try, then.
There were some long-running strips that got new cartoonists in the past few years. “Alley Oop” I have not heard great things about. I was reading “Heart of the City” when Tatulli was doing it. STL native Steenz really made that over, not trying to emulate the artwork at all, adding a number of characters, and changing some of the core group. To say there was some disapproval in the comments would be mild. However, I have generally enjoyed it.
@ Boise Ed (5) – Please do not over-evaluate my praise of the new “Nancy”. I have not followed the strip on a regular basis since Bushmiller quit producing it, and I currently read it only when it shows up here or at the Daily Cartoonist. It is still fundamentally a children’s feature, but I do enjoy Jaimes’ off-the-wall “April Fool’s” strips, and she’s done a number of other “meta” and/or “4th wall” gags that I thought were very creative, such as this one (a parody of “Prince Valiant”):
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I don’t see any random absurdism here: the whole strip carefully follows the precepts as given in the first panel, with a corresponding increase for each subsequent statement. The final punchline is that the character on the right thinks that they are in agreement, when in fact they were miscommunicating the whole time.
P.S. Reconstructing most of the damaged dialog:
Panel 2: I like that, as long as the wa …. one is not too heavy-handed.
(I cannot reconstruct the third line.)
Panel 3: As long as the author isn’t lazy.
(A car honk is believable, but far too simple.)
Panel 4: You don’t want the reason for the miscommunication to be ridiculous.
(An interruption by a beeping watch is just silly.)
Panel 5: It needs to be believable.
(A foghorn is not rational on land nor in the sun.)
Kilby, for Panel 2, I’d posit:
As long as the way it’s done is not too heavy-handed.
@ Phil (3) – Thanks a lot, that looks perfect! (The “meow” bomb is anything but subtle.)
P.S. Whoever he/she is, I think “Olivia Jaimes” deserves a heck of a lot more credit for the way she has dusted off “Nancy”, and turned an antiquated relic of the 1950s into a readable comic strip, with much more depth than it ever used to have.
Kilby: I’ll give Nancy a try, then.
There were some long-running strips that got new cartoonists in the past few years. “Alley Oop” I have not heard great things about. I was reading “Heart of the City” when Tatulli was doing it. STL native Steenz really made that over, not trying to emulate the artwork at all, adding a number of characters, and changing some of the core group. To say there was some disapproval in the comments would be mild. However, I have generally enjoyed it.
@ Boise Ed (5) – Please do not over-evaluate my praise of the new “Nancy”. I have not followed the strip on a regular basis since Bushmiller quit producing it, and I currently read it only when it shows up here or at the Daily Cartoonist. It is still fundamentally a children’s feature, but I do enjoy Jaimes’ off-the-wall “April Fool’s” strips, and she’s done a number of other “meta” and/or “4th wall” gags that I thought were very creative, such as this one (a parody of “Prince Valiant”):