Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for November 16, 2019

You must face the music sometime Nancy. Just go on in and get it over with.

What a coincidence! Fritzi is a DD, too!

That’s why, Miss Fritz.

At least Peppermint Patty has legit reasons for those grades.

She was trying to figure out how to deliver bad news in a good way?

Should have studied NANCY! You don’t want to end up like Sluggo, dat would be bad!

She’s doing all she can to delay the inevitable bun warming…

She puzzled and puzzed till her puzzler was sore. Then the kid thought of something she hadn’t before. “Maybe I don’t,” she thought, “have to go through the door. Maybe just the report card – through the mail slot to the floor!” (With apologies to Dr. Seuss)

It’s okay, Nanc. You’ve been in the same grade for over 80 years. : )

Hey, where are the Olivia Jaimes nitpickers to point out that the first panel is literally a copy of the second panel (except for the monologue, though even the balloon contours are the same), and how lazy, nice work if you can get it, blah blah blah?

1-NANCY: Do I really enjoy living here…

2-…am I truly loved and cherished? Or would I be better off living at Suggo’s?

3-It’s seldom in life that one is able to coax out the unvarnished truth but I have it within my power today.

4-FRITZ: NANCY! YOU MORON!

NANCY: Alas, as it is so often said, “The Truth Hurts” HEY SLUGGO! WAIT UP!

As J.D. Clampett used to say: “Time to have a looooong talk with that girl!”

Nancy looks so young and cute in this strip!

In major contrast to Sluggo:

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2019/06/26

Though how he achieves those grades is another matter:

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2019/09/11

Kind of expected that ending.

Now you know!

Nearly 70 years later, and this is still a solid joke. A+++

She doesn’t want to be spanked.

Yup