Investing in a shredding-reading (Pêcheux, 2016) of cartoonist Laertes’s work, this article comprises the discursive analysis of three comic strips that, despite not having been originally composed as an interconnected narrative, will be conceived here as an accidental urban trilogy. In the light of the notion of urban narrativity (Orlandi, 2004), it is understood, in this discursive cut (Orlandi, 1984), that the comic strips textualize, as symbolic objects, the process of inscription of the subject in an urban discursivity governed by " exclusionary readings" (Zoppi-Fontana, 1999). In this gesture of interpretation, the comic strips function as " flagrant" , in analogy to the urban flagrant (Orlandi, 2004), signification sites that, finally, make a city emerge.