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People are suddenly screaming at each other about 80-year-old comic strip character Nancy
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Finished reading the Nancy Loves Sluggo collection. Wanted to buy myself a copy but damn, this thing is hard to find. They need to reprint it.
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For Sluggo is lit week.
Picked this up from the library earlier this week!
Some more highlights.
For Sluggo is lit week.
So this thread lead me to the great new Olivia Jaimes Nancy comics, but also to the original Bushmiller comics which really struck a chord with me. Enough that I went out and bought this book, How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden.
I recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Nancy. It's a huge book that has an incredible amount of research put into it. It also has a collection of fantastic original Bushmiller Nancy strips in it.
Picked this up from the library earlier this week!
I only realized this this morning, when Evan Dorkin posted a Milk and Cheese one.
Yeah! I actually emailed Fantagraphics about a reprint of Nancy Loves Sluggo and Nancy is Happy, they replied to me:
So if anyone else is also interested in them, emailing to let you know your interest is probably a good idea :) I really hope they can do a reprint.
Will do! I've bugged them before for the Krazy Kat reprints too. Funnily enough, Nancy Loves Sluggo was orderable on their website two weeks ago. I went back the next day and the whole page was gone. -_-
I set an alert on eBay for them too. Picked up Nancy is Happy for a decent price. Plan to start on that next.
Finished reading the Nancy Loves Sluggo collection. Wanted to buy myself a copy but damn, this thing is hard to find. They need to reprint it.
Some more highlights.
That giant soda is a medium today.
So this comment was made for today's comic. This is some incredible salt.
Holy shit is that dude on acid or something? That's so bizarre and disjointed.
So this comment was made for today's comic. This is some incredible salt.
My favorite is the response that points out Gilchrist hadn't done a full tribute 9/11 comic since 2015. 2016 had a header tacked on to an (I assume) unrelated comic that ends with an invisible plane joke, and 2017 didn't acknowledge the date at all.
Man, I went through a couple weeks of Gilchrist comics and just can't find any humor at all.
So this comment was made for today's comic. This is some incredible salt.
I don't remember that dialogue tree in Alpha Protocol.
Here is how much humor there is in Gilchrist comics:
Spoiler: It was liberal irony.
Too real, can't handle it.
this is so freaking good, and i had no idea who nancy was before this thread! Read all the new ones and they're amazing! Gilchrist though... how anyone can like it is a mystery to me
Too real, can't handle it.
I'm particularly enjoying the pun around "achieving her dreams"
She's still awake at 2am, so there's a literal meaning to a phrase which is normally used only in a figurative sense.
I went to Half Price Books tonight thinking I might score a cheap Nancy reprint volume from Fantagraphics and struck out. Damn.
Email Fantagraphics and let them know you want reprints! I think they'd do pretty well if they reprinted the Nancy is Happy/Nancy Loves Sluggo volumes.
She didn't get any sleep though so she can blame her future failure on not getting enough sleep.
Too real, can't handle it.
This post from five months ago called it lol
sluggo is lit
Apologies for the double. Usually I'm not a huge fan of the meta comics but this is fantastic.
This man? NOT lit.
So this comment was made for today's comic. This is some incredible salt.
Too real, can't handle it.
Currently lying in bed after I made too much food tonight.
Help I've been murdered.
sluggo is lit
Apologies for the double. Usually I'm not a huge fan of the meta comics but this is fantastic.
It's like the biggest fuck you to the previous author, lovely.
We sure this isn't satire? Way too many references to not at least be self aware lol
So this comment was made for today's comic. This is some incredible salt.
That Alpha Protocol avatar kinda gives it away.
Reading that post I can just hear psychopath Michael Thorton.
https://youtu.be/VUydx57te9s
Aunt Fritzi only wearing snowsuits from now on instead of being the '50 pin-up from the previous author strips.
