Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 15, 2015

That’s nothing! When Mike was a junior, they got his order wrong at the New Haven Burger King.

Maybe, next time.

I never read this comic back when this was new; papers near me didn’t carry it. This is kind of painful to watch, actually…

A freshman in ’72 when the strip started, and a senior in ’80. Slow learner.

give her time, she just needs to find herself

Play your cards right and she might stay with you. (snickers)

I’m not being picky, but curiosity has gotten to me.

Does anyone know what that gray thing on the table to the right of the TV is? A VHS/Beta player, maybe??

So, when did JJ realize that Mike was a rebel without a pause? Born to be mild? .Surely before she married him?

I find these a lot of fun since Mike and I were both Freshman at the same time, starting college in 1970 (and I was following the strip fairly closely then too). However I was finished with undergraduate and graduate school by 1976, so Mike has been “cartoon aging” all along. I’m 62 now and a new grandfather, but I get the feeling that I passed up Mike and friends in age some time ago.

stash box.

@WF11They remained eternal students until the hiatus in 83/84, came back with a bit of subsequent history like the marriage of Mike and JJ, and from then on have aged roughly in real time. That puts Mike in his mid-fifties, which looks about right. And congratulations!