I never really thought this through all the way this until fairly recently, and it’s not just this instance in particular, but Nancy comics are pretty good.
Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead, put out a graphic novel biography of Ernie Bushmiller and it’s really good.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98650852-three-rocks
A lot of Bushmiller strips are standard comic fare, but every so often he did something funny and weird, like break the fourth wall.
And then sometimes he would rise above it all to a level of comic genius.
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The first one is amusingly obsolete on several levels. If Sluggo had a device with internet he’d have something to read without having to go anywhere, and of course the strip isn’t being displayed on paper.
That reminds me of the weird way the opening of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer has become both obsolete while also taking on a completely different meaning-
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel
He wrote it in the 80s, so he meant grey and snowy. Now it would mean a blue sky.