Nancy Drew comics? Or Nancy drew comics? Ha!

*Heart symbol*

uhm hello this comic demonstrates design therefore an author clearly exists and hates all the same things we do

While reading this strip, the only thing I could think about was Isadora Duncan.

I like the brandished, frame-breaking umbrella in the penultimate panel.

Is that “Standell St” in the first panel? A reference to “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White” perhaps?

Is that some literal fourth wall breaking in panel 8? Because if so, it is also – by directly interacting with the format of the comic – good ol’ metaphorical fourth wall breaking.

Dear Author,
Your comic keeps getting better and better.

I wish I knew the song to the words they’re singing in the sixth panel. Or the rest of the words…

Holy Monkey! This one is profound, suggesting a whole new theology if you get the title reference. If you don’t, go Wiki “Edward Stratemeyer.” It would explain a whole helluva lot about this world if it turns out that the “author” is a committee of underpaid hacks.

I am now a huge fan of this author if she exists. If not I am a huge fan of the comic.

“Joe” would be Joe Hardy of the Hardy Boys, “Ned” is Tom Swift’s best fried Ned Newton, and “Flossie and Freddie” are the Bobbsey Twins.

in my dream i am the author
its me

Isn’t that guy the phony heiress they already foiled?

Wow, this one is excellent. I haven’t seen interrogation of form this subtle since the last time I read “Krazy Kat.”

Mark, thanks for getting me to look up the reference. It seems Edward Stratemeyer has more books sold to his “name” than J.K. Rowling. How weird is that?

@mjh: Ned is also the name of Nancy Drew’s always-worried boyfriend, which would make Girl’s admonishment both meaner and kinder in the same turn.

You are right; Nancy Drew’s boyfriend would be a better fit (which more or less implies that Girl is Nancy).

Freddie and Flossie are the younger set of Bobbsey Twins. The older pair are Nan and Bert.

What we once thought we had we didn’t, and what we have now will never be that way again
So we call upon the author to explain

This reminds me a lot of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and the title characters’ recurring call for some direction.

Glorious comic, and thanks for not requiring any registration to post comments!

I kind of thought it had to do with Roland Barthes’s “Death of the Author”?

Original good guys win in the real life

The good guy insists upon an author, whilst the villain claims it is unknowable…