Judge — August 13, 1904 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a comic strip titled "Nervy Nat Has His Fortune Told" (No. 27). The narrative follows Nervy Nat, a working-class character in a top hat and plaid pants, visiting a fortune-teller at the seaside. The fortune-teller warns him of a waiting brunette, a dark gentleman to beware, and a bruise coming from a woman's jealousy. The comic plays these warnings for comedic effect as Nervy Nat encounters various characters—women and men—who progressively fulfill the prophecies through romantic entanglements and physical altercations. The satire appears to mock both fortune-telling superstitions and the romantic misadventures of ordinary men, using slapstick humor and exaggerated consequences to create the joke.