Joe the Fly 14: Contamination

This is where it gets interesting: one can carry on a story from a strip to another. The key is to resume the preceding strip in one frame, so that if a reader has not seen the previous strip, he / she can understand what is going on right away. This is important for instance when strips are published independently in a newspaper. Whoever reads the paper can appreciate the strip without knowing the characters or the stories that have led to that point.