Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 20, 2019

Self-pity is so attractive.

Wiry eyebrows were the biggest surprise to me.

I haven’t lost all my hair (yet) but much of it has moved to very unpleasent new places such as my eyebrows, nose, ears, and other body parts I’d rather not mention.

Yes! It’s all the damn superfluous hair in odd places that really make it seem like God is just taunting you…

And you forgot, no morning wood.

Mm, I look in the mirror and think “Damn, you look old!” but with my sixtieth birthday in a couple weeks, I am old!

You’ve still got that perky nose, Mike.

There is a proto-humanoid on my mirror and he looks confused.

I’m a young person trapped in an older person’s body.

I’m not going to take part in this conversation.

Still breathing…for no apparent reason.

HEY!! You’ve still got the hot trophy bit going…hold your head high. Besides…if you do, it helps take the wrinkles out of the neck…

Me too! (and I’m older than Mike)

Remember, it ain’t the years that count, it’s the mileage!

Oh, Gary, you’ve ruined my Sunday.

Photos actually scare me. I took up photography just so I would be behind the camera.

having the mind of a 16 year old in a senior’s body is cause for many a disappointment.

I wish I could, I wish I could, I wish I could……

You are still sharing the same bed so just think of yourself as Mr. Mighty Stalion.

Still sharp as a tack….for your age.

I was fine until I saw my ID photo. When did I turn into Skeletor? Sheesh!

And She’s even Sharper.

Asian women do not like to Lie to Family Members.

You are forever young in heart and mind. Worry not about appearance. We are too obsessed with our own decrepitude to notice yours!

Been there. The saving grace is that nobody actually cares how I look.

Thank God – a Sunday without Trump-bashing.

Grumpy chin says “GET OFF MY LAWN!”

Can’t wait until we get back to the topic of the political mess we have in the WH, but this was a decent toon.

This Friday will be the fourth memorial I’ve been to this year for friends around my age. Sobering.

On the lighter side: Two people run into each other at the supermarket. One says, "Hey, I remember you from high school! The other one says, “Oh? What did you teach?”

Often startled by very shiny windows at the correct angle.

I can’t figure out how Mike is privy to my darkest thoughts…and my wife’s most devious tricks.

“Sunken eyes”? Hasn’t Trudeau always drawn all his characters (except children and Boopsie) with sunken eyes?

Some of us wish we still had eyebrows!

Whine whine whine. My wife patiently waited forty years for me to develop grey hair. She absolutely adored my father’s silver locks and wanted me to produce the same.

So THAT’s how the mirror versus photograph thing works!

The interesting panel is “reflexively arranging my face so it’s somehow acceptable” when he looks in the mirror. I think that’s accurate. Maybe it’s a built-in safety mechanism so we can live with our appearance even if vanity might dictate some distress otherwise. I have always wondered whether Abe Lincoln, called “an ape” and “ugly” his entire life (then “old and ugly” by the time he was 50), ever looked in the mirror and thought “I look OK to me.” Actually, he was once posing at a studio and watched over the photographer’s shoulder while the photo developed. As the new image finally emerged, the president said aloud “well there he is — the animal himself.”

Don’t worry, Mike. I’m sure there’s a few people who consider you a DILF**

**Doonesbury I’d Like to F—-

As the late Marilyn Monroe once said, “Gravity catches up with all of us.”

It’s the loose skin around/over my eyes that makes me look senior, that and my neck. And yet, I don’t feel all that old. :P