This week's comic: Archie's Double Digest #172 by Stan Goldberg and Bob Smith

This comic has been sitting in my closet since I was about fourteen, but I don’t think I ever read it before.   Maybe once right after I got it, but I certainly don’t remember any of it.

Rereading it after all this time made me notice things in it that I wouldn't have before, like how even a simple story about going to a fair can use a lot of variation in the panels.  I also noticed how sometimes the characters and speech bubbles popped out of the frame. When we talked about it in class, I would have assumed that that was mostly used to show action or breaking the forth wall, but the way it's used here I noticed how it added more depth without having to draw the background in again.

I also almost missed places where the panels are just dividing up a location to show passage of time; only when I got to the last one did I realize that the backgrounds were interconnected.