Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 16, 2012

Yes, everybody gets the irony of it.

What a pair!

Hope Zip drives better than he winches.

Doesn’t Jeff mean “Reel” world?

Wait, since when does Jeff live in the … oh, never mind.

And yet the punk is a gazillionaire…

They keep switching physical positions each day (who’s sitting on the left, who’s sitting on the right)…

In the real world, wouldn’t they have nipples?

Awesome. Jeff should start doing career counseling seminars.

water having sought and found its own level, birds of a feather, flocking..one lucky & one not so. very “lovin’ it” and fries with that. chillin’ with the shades inside the money bubble house that Jeff built with the romance of an immoral war turned by savy alchemy & walter mitty into the easy life.

I think they should get out of the sun.

Jeff has been living in the fantasy world so long, he convinced himself it is the real world. Sad.

“For guys who’ve been out in the sun a lot, they’re sure colored extra pale.”I’ve been meaning to comment on the same thing. Maybe they’re completely slathered in SPF 50 sunscreen? (With Uncle Zonk’s experience in mind.)

“They are both risking melanoma …”

Boy talk about stomping on other people’s dreams, IMudd.

Payback’s a bitch, Zip. Didn’t you stomp on Jeff’s dream in the movie theater?

@gaebie So many things in this world to be sad about, and you choose a fictional self-absorbed filthy-rich young punk comic strip character?

Jeff does live in the real world. He only works in Fantasyland.

This is strictly a political strip.

Pot, meet kettle.

@reedkomicks:I agree the viewing angle is changed, of course, but that doesn’t matter. The two characters are switching positions RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER each day:

In Wednesday’s comic, Zip is sitting on Jeff’s right side.

In Tuesday’s comic, Zip is sitting on Jeff’s left side.

In Monday’s comic, Zip is sitting on Jeff’s right side.