Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 17, 2013

Take a number kid.

It’s a good thing that there’s not much going on in Washington right now, so Trudeau can take a break and rerun this arc.

I wonder if GBT is getting tired?

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-08/lifestyle/41881025_1_alpha-house-universal-uclick-first-comic-strip

“The “Doonesbury” cartoonist has been on sabbatical this summer as he readies his Washington-based TV series, “Alpha House,” one of the inaugural projects for Amazon Studios. That has meant a season of “Doonesbury Flashbacks” — a.k.a. reruns — on the comics page, with the comic strip’s return originally slated for Labor Day.

Now, like a Groundhog Day alert, comes new word: “Doonesbury” fans will get 10 more weeks of darkness. Original strips are now scheduled to return on the week of Nov. 18. The weekly color strip returned on Sunday"

Actually, the shutdown gave comedians plenty of material. And now, back to work on something other than shooting one’s self in the foot. Hooray!

A lot of comics have reruns. Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes are both permanent reruns, Get Fuzzy is sporadic, and Doonesbury has always had relatively short breaks, now this long one. So what? The reruns are still better than a lot of what’s out there, and a lot better than what I could come up with myself.

And this is just the American Group. Have you seen the Norwegians?

Bravo, StCleve72, you’ve stated it well for all of us.

You could of dusted this one off a bit. Talk about archieve strip, wait, is that mold in the lower right corner?

I see I missed a few kind comments, thanks to all and it’s cool to “commune” with other diggers of this great strip.