Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 07, 2014

That would be great! You get a crick in your neck or a sore back…Oh, that kind of massage parlor.Never mind.

Well … it sure beats coaching the Washington Redskins or ruling American Samoa, eh?

The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.

Maybe “Family Circus” is more your speed.

I’m going to just throw this out there: you know the phrase “mean drunk”, “Don’t talk to me until after I’ve had my coffee”, “nicotine withdrawal”. I have never heard of anything resembling those in regards to pot, i.e. “Wow that stoner is such a nightmare” Just a casual observation.

Poor Duke and his grandiose plans…. I just don’t see this storyline having a happy ending….

“Maybe you haven’t noticed but Alcohol has been legal for almost the entire time we have been a country, its a true Killer drug along with Nicotine. No laws need to be passed to allow this.”..I hope you don’t think Duke is the way he is due to alcohol or marijuana.

Um, 18th Amendment Repoc?

Now I see it. After all these years. Zonker may be a little left of crazy. Talking plants and all. But he is centred. Knows when too much really is too much. Always has known..and Duke will take his own path.

This batch of reprints is fascinating. I don’t recall ever seeing this sequence before. I know the reprint collections were never all-inclusive, but I’d always thought we’d first met Duke (with his ever-present shades, conspicuously absent here) in his office, “Killing bats with my ruler! BIG ones, too!”