Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 11, 2011

Now we know why Drew moved out.

Alex, nice technique of nudging Grandma out. She is planning to share with Lio.

Heh. The needs of twenty-somethings screening roommates are a bit different than the needs of sixty-plus year-old women who are looking for a temporary sublet.

I’m waiting for the first time Grandma gets up early, goes to the kitchen to make coffee … and runs into a stuttering Leo wearing nothing but a pair of boxers and an eyepatch. Good times!

@palin drome: I thought Alex was still at M.I.T. as a graduate student, and that Leo lives further south somewhere with his mom in a trailer? I didn’t think they lived in the same town (yet).

I’ve been reading the Doonesbury archives. Alex’s first love, back when she was a little girl, was Leo. The Leonardo di Capria of Titanic. I wonder if Trudeau was thinking of that when he came up with Toggle in the first place?

If Jeff follows through on the consumer activism seed Joanie planted, they can both work for Warren and room together.

I think Alex just went into over-excitement mode and made Joanie decide she doesn’t need to be a roommate after all.

Art comparo, Alex’s profile between upper banner and panal 1 illustrates same but different. The fresh face of youth pullled an unwitting coupe

skip the Senate. WARREN FOR PRESIDENT!

If Joannie is Alex’s grandma ans Joannie is Jeff’s (Sork r) mother, does that make Jeff Alex’s uncle?

Who doesn’t love reptiles?

GO ELIZABETH WARREN

More or less. Alex’s mom (Joan Jr.) is Jeff’s half-sister.

I can’t recall Alex and Jeff ever having met (let alone acknowledging kinship), but they both know Zipper.

Some of the younger readers here need to stop for a moment and think about what their grandparents have lived through. Do you really think someone who has been through Vietnam sit-ins and Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement etc etc is going to be shocked by a mostly undressed young man? Grow up, guys. Joanie ran away from her first husband to live at Walden! Yes—Jeff is Alex’s uncle, or half-uncle—whatever. But, uncle. JJ and Jeff have different fathers and were born a a couple decades apart.

Still waiting for the Drew explanation.

@diggit – I hope they do room together – lots of cross-generational materal, as you note, for Trudeau to work with. Interesting perspectives abounding from the older and wiser grandma on the same stuff Alex is now engaged in.

Sending a message to DT Pi: I know you were upset by some of the comments posted last week regarding Roz coming out and have not posted since but I believe you are being unfair by cutting off all interaction on this strip.Your contributions were highly appreciated by many here and added to both to the quality and pleasure of the debate. Please reconsider rejoining us.

Regards,LWP

Don’t you love Alex’s contrived enthusiasm, overshadowing her intentions? She found a way to weasel out of an uncomfortable proposal while appearing to support it. The old poison pill trick, and it worked. Sounds like something Shakespeare would think of. That’s one of the reasons why she’s the smart one, and there is so much drama in her life.

@leftwingpatriot; re your plea to dtpi, let me add my voice to yours. I really enjoy reading his posts.