Five-Card Nancy

First, a little background:

Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip "Nancy" is a landmark achievement: A Comic so simply drawn it can be reduced to the size of a postage stamp and still be legible; an approach so formulaic as to become the very definition of the "gag-strip"; a sense of humor so obscure, so mute, so without malice as to allow faithful readers to march through whole decades of art and story without ever once cracking a smile.

Five-Card Nancy is a game where player(s) randomly select single panels from the strip (like playing cards) and then arrange them one by one in a sequence to tell a story. The inventor of the game has created an "official set of rules," but you can avoid all that nonsense by simply playing solitaire.

Here's my creation—a little crude I know, but that's the way the cards fell...

Comments

[Sherrill Giusti]

Oh great....another addictive computer game! I love it!