Now, What D'ye Think of That?

This four-panel Sunday strip follows a running gag about a man's changing fortunes. Each panel depicts him describing his status to an audience—first as a millionaire organizing a Bible class, then as his wealth plummets to merely possessing parrots, then to poverty with only a Bible class of forty-seven scholars, and finally to his Sunday appearances with regularity, his rating having fallen two hundred million dollars. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: distinct rectangular panels, speech balloons, recurring characters in domestic and public settings, and sequential narrative built on verbal irony and social commentary. The heavy cross-hatching and architectural detail reflect the woodcut aesthetic of early-twentieth-century newspaper illustration.