Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for October 08, 2019

Robbie the Robot from the sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet (1956) and Robot B9 from the TV series Lost in Space (1965-1968) are far more advanced than him! This one Sluggo made looks like The Tin Woodsman from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Two peas in a pod.

“Teach Sluggo proper speech.”

What is this robotics club stuff? I want the old Nancy back!

Is this a… Naaah. Too easy.

a few decades early, Sluggo!

1-NANCY: I haven’t seen Sluggo in days…

2-…I’d best check in.

3-SLUGGO: I invented a parent to order me around. Now I’ll enjoy it more when I don’t do any of those things.

Well Sluggo, it is woiking…

I hope that it’s Three Laws Safe.

For those wondering why we skipped from a strip appearing on 12/31/49 to 1/2/50, January 1, 1950 was a Sunday.

You’re going to get tennis elbow if you add any more wind up tasks to his “programming”

Wow – impressive for Sluggo to come up with this…

You’re overthinking it, Sluggo. Cardboard box, magic marker, and off you go.

For those of you old enough to remember, the 1950’s/’60’s were the times when robots were mainly appearing on the scene…. toys, movies, name it. So, this strip is not a recurrence of the “robot club” from the “new” Nancy, but rather, a reminder of how kids in that era thought, and what excited them. I, myself, had a toy robot that walked, spun from its center, and the chest opened up, and twin machine guns would “shoot,” then retract. That, was cool stuff!

One can only hope.