Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 03, 2013
Transcript:
Mike: Wow... things have really gone to hell... we need to get back online and fast! Hi, folks! Sick to death of all the reruns? Mark: Well, just imagine how we feel! Mike: There's an old adage about comic strip characters-- "use 'em or lose 'em." Mark: So true in our case... In the Doonesbury green room, there's been a total breakdown of discipline... Jeff: Hey! There's no more sangria! Mark: Players dropping out of character... Forgetting lines... Joanie: Chill, yo! Rick: Uh... uh... uh... Mark: Tempers flaring... Zipper: Sorry, man, I thought you'd seen it! Duke: Always say "Spoiler Alert!" Always! Mike: Anyway, it'll be great to be back! See you soon! Zonker: Mike, what was I like? Was I some sort of gypsy?
BE THIS GUY over 10 years ago
It can’t happen soon enough; I am so tired of, “is this a rerun?”
mr.monkeyshines over 10 years ago
yay.
nixie224 over 10 years ago
Tired of the reruns? Yes. But the last few Sunday comics have been new
cleokaya over 10 years ago
Soon you say, how about when?
Ghille over 10 years ago
Original strips are now scheduled to return on the week of Nov. 18.
the old professor over 10 years ago
Top stuff! And I’ve enjoyed the re-runs as well.
2578275 over 10 years ago
People are funny: They’ll spend dollars on CDs, DVDs, books, etc. with the intention of listening, watching and reading again, but make odd comments on cartoon reruns. Maybe they didn’t spend enough bucks on Doonesbury.
chazandru over 10 years ago
The next time Mr. Trudeau goes on ‘vacation’, he should bring back cartoons from the sixties and seventies that not only show how little things have changed politically, but how much the guys have changed ‘physically’. Reminiscently,C.
asa4ever over 10 years ago
Rerun the 60s
marshalldoc over 10 years ago
Great strip! Hysterical. Didn’t mind the ‘re-runs’ either.
Charley007 over 10 years ago
Maybe zonker will make it to colorado!
andrew_c over 10 years ago
I was thinking that Uncle Duke would be a great way to address the current spying debacle, but unfortunately Trudeau seems to be afraid to criticize Obama, while other liberal editorial cartoonists (like Matt Bors) have been savagely ripping into him.
Gokie5 over 10 years ago
Priceless!
Moley over 10 years ago
Wonderful! How long has it been, 6 months? It seems like a year.
Godfreydaniel over 10 years ago
Why WAS Trudeau on vacation for so long? I never heard. (Of course, I never asked……) All the NSA spying, the government shutdown, so much to ridicule and Trudeauwas AWOL. I wish he would get back here yesterday.
StCleve72 over 10 years ago
Hope this doesn’t adversely affect my lawsuit against Truduea for a zillion simoleans for all the re-runs. He owes me! Or as Johnny Cochoran put it; “if the strips aren’t new, then he owes you!” And he better not be a liberal when he gets back. Hopefully he’ll draw the new strips as seen through someone else’s eyes, perhaps Ted Cruz or Fox News, you know, fair and balanced.
bryan42 over 10 years ago
I don’t understand peoples angst about the reruns, but then I have a hard time understanding angry people.I will be glad to see new Doonesburys, though.
route66paul over 10 years ago
Here on the west coast of the US, they don’t call themselves Roma, but Rom, with the o pronounced like rod.
bjballard1 over 10 years ago
Reruns? Who would have guessed? MOST OF US!!!!!!
montessoriteacher over 10 years ago
Thanks GT. I am sure you have been hard at work. Alpha house will be great. When the strip is back we can get back to the babies and all the rest of the gang. All in good time.
susan.e.a.c over 10 years ago
Zzzzzzzzzz…..
susan.e.a.c over 10 years ago
Zzzzzzzzzz…..
Robert C. Premium Member over 10 years ago
“In July, 2010, Johnson retired completely and For Better or For Worse switched to straight reprints of earlier strips.” …and no complaints here about “re-runs”? WHEW !
O2bn0g over 10 years ago
i love the rerun, but stuff like this is just wonderful. Brilliant!
CrazyRubes over 10 years ago
Just wanted to say that Trudeau breaks the 4th wall more often than anything I can think of.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 10 years ago
" “Rerun the 60s”That would be rather difficult as the strip started in Oct 1970…lol."-Time travel is not beyond his power, Alley Oop does it rather frequently.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Susan, I tend to think Alex & Leo aren’t there because they’ve actually had work to do recently, and don’t just have to wait in the green room.
BE THIS GUY over 10 years ago
You miss him as much as any lib does – you’re always here.
Liam Astle Premium Member over 10 years ago
When you come back can you please make fun of Obama the way you have done other Presidents in the past.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 10 years ago
Nowhere near the cr@p that has been flying around here — but that happens whether the toons are new or not.
Carol69 over 10 years ago
Get a life.
lizilu over 10 years ago
New or old, the best DB I’ve read in a LONG time!