Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for February 07, 2020

I see what you did there.

Good movies, by the way. Or Pulp Fiction. Sorta like the film Memento. But here it is. I didn’t think I’d see a comic strip told backwards.

The regular way made no sense, until I read it backwards.

I may be inordinately tickled with myself because as soon as I read the first speech balloon, I went straight to the end and read it “backwards”.

That may be because one of my favorite movies plays out in a sort of modified reverse chronology. It’s “Betrayal,” based on the play by Harold Pinter. First we see the end of a love affair set in 1977… and then work backwards to its beginning in 1968.

Reminds me of how GoComics previews the middle panels of a comic strip on that strips page, as if they were completely unaware of how comic strips worked.

Backwards read, you must.

That’s the VCR convention for “reverse”. Most streaming services use a circular arrow meaning “jump back”, don’t they? I think OJ may be an old.

Nancy’s back! (or should I say, backwards?) And, how did Olivia think of this? Impressive. : )

Reminds me of the ongoing Usenet conversation about quote order. Or the way Twitter shows me everything in the reverse of chronological order.

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I have to admit that when I first read the comic at 6:00am this morning….. my thought was…. “What the hell is going on? I do not get it.” But, now…. haha…. beautiful! What a creative, and wonderful set of panels today!!!! Thank you Olivia!

Got me too……

Just follow the arrows.

Brilliant! Love it when the format is played with.