Joe 20: The end is...not nigh

Here again, strips 17 to 20 constitute an actual story if they are read one after the other; but what one needs to do with comic strips is to enable the reader to read each strip and understand it even though they might not have read the previous one (which is often the case if the strip is published in a newspaper for instance). To do that, the artist has to resume the previous strip in the first frame of the new strip, or find a way to "re-start" a story from elements of the previous one.