Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 04, 2012

I don’t think I could handle another week of this arc (and I have seen Zipper work on the weekends).

Fer Sher! She needs to wake up from the dream she’s having!

Phred might work cheap?

Despite all, it made me laugh.πSort of. Doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not strictly true — LWP has seen Zip appear on weekends (could have been arerun? Or somehow not under Trudeau’s strict control) — ’cause just the idea of the ’toonist giving a character, any character, a reg. weekend off is unexpected.πAnd therefore funny. To me at least. (Not ha-ha funny. Snort funny.)

Try replacing Mr.Trudeau! Didn’t Charles.Schulz work for “Peanuts”!?

“Where ya been?”πRich: Yuh d’wanna know. But — make no mistake — I love the goodfolk on this website. And missed y’all.

I still say, that GT is just having fun with us, and perhaps trying something new. You don’t hit a home run everytime at bat.

DT Pi, I think equating this, with what Clinton did. is a bit of a stretch. Unless you really feel that we are being abused by this story line.

GEE1A Funny!!

This story arc jumpd the shark on Day Two. And for me, coming after the Jim Crow thing, that means two weeks of Doonesbury being unreadable.

Perhaps GT is having too many G & T’s

This is long past lame. Time to do something meaningful Garry

Yes, lying about getting a bj in the white house, is so much worse than lying about the reason to start a war.

I love the idea of the characters having to create the strip, and having to work with a tight budget at that. Very funny.

He’s just having fun with the strip—the conceit of the joke is the humorous assumption that the characters are real, ‘work’ for the strip, actually have lives etc. - it’s offensive or lame-o only if you forget or don’t want to be reminded that this is a comic strip with made up of fictional characters. — lots of THAT in the comments I’ve read.Try tp remember that this is a comic strip even if it explores serious topics.

1. So maybe Garry is trying to cull the readership? One would hope . . .2. I’d think that the yellow background in panel three might run up the cost a bit – it’s that way in the Tampa Bay Times, too, so it’s not just the online colorist.

I join the chorus welcoming DylanThomas3.14159 back, the one reliably sane and courteous contributor. And it’s none of my business where he’s been.

“Clinton will always be Clinton the Impeached to me. The standard bearer of the Corrupt Party.”πClinton was impeached (a misunderstood technical word), but not convicted. Therefore, no connection between his impeachment and his party being a “corrupt” exists. πRecall that during and after impeachment, his popularity rose to around 60% nationwide and stayed there. OTOH Bush’s nosedived to the low 20s and stayed there till he sneaked out the White House’s back door.πRecall that under Clinton-Gore the deficit went to ZERO! Compare that to Bush’s economic nosedive, with which we still are dealing.πIf corruption exists in government it exists in the fact that virtually all members of Congress — both GOP and DEM — are bought and paid for by the military-industrial-financial (MIF) complex. And important legislative bills are being written not by Congressional staffers, but by agents / lobbyists of this same MIF complex.πImagine the nation’s money pool as the Pacific ocean. The vast majority of it has shifted from the 99% to the 1% (which includes the MIF complex). Hence we are becoming a third world country headed toward wage-slave labor and PERMANENT unemployment / under-employment.πAnd make no mistake, permanent unemployment, under-employment coupled with wage-slave labor is feudalism. Look it up.

Thanx- GT- you have literally given me a new life.

In GT’s palace revolution, Alex may be risking her authority by asking for her dad’s help. It’s a soft revolution; no heads will roll. With luck, the story line may regain its edginess.

Ii don’t like this arc at all. As an older person myself, I related to the older characters. Does everything have to be aimed at only the 20-somehtings?

I don’t understand all the complaints about this story arc; to me, it’s hilarious. Maybe that’s because my 21-year-old college student lives with me, and I have to laugh at all the similarities between her attitudes and my own at her age, and Alex’s now. (It’s either laugh or cry.) Oh, the just-slightly-post-adolescent narrow-mindedness, the conviction that anyone over 30 is hopelessly out of it, the eagerness to believe that one can rocket to the top without years of hard work, the failure to see that others’ hard work is what brought “the top” into existence, and so on. I was just out of college when Doonesbury was born; so Alex’s dad and I are contemporaries, as are Alex and my daughter. Alex’s struggles to figure out who she was as a student brought her to this goofy “what if,” and — as I said before — I’m getting a kick out of it. Relax and enjoy the ride, I say!

I like this arc! I always get a kick out of these meta-riffs.

I cant wait to see how GT handles the upcomming elections.

I find it interesting, and I may mention this again, that Hollywood is blamed for promoting a “liberal” agenda. And while there are certainly many liberal people involved in the movie industry, I can’t help thinking that Hollywood has greatly helped move America to the right. Hollywood has undoubtedly promoted a culture of violence and discouraged mutual understanding, respect, and toleration. How many movies paint a Manichean picture of the world, the Forces of Good versus the Forces of Evil, where there is no point in trying to “understand” evil, or win it over, where those who do try are generally killed, where the only remedy for Evil is brute force, and the ends justify the means. Where no one cries over “collateral damage” and happy endings are always possible if only the Evil Ones are crushed and destroyed, no matter how many innocents have perished along the way. Where peace, freedom, and justice all grow from the barrel of a gun, and the rule of law must not be allowed to get in the way. Where is the liberal agenda in the Die Hard series or James Bond? So I am rather tired of the bleating and whining about the “liberal” media, and “liberal” Hollywood. They are nothing of the kind.

I also don’t get all the complaints about this storyline, either. It’s not as if it’s the first time Doonesbury’s gone meta on us. It’s been a pretty regular thing for about 20 years. Whether it’s the annual mail silo week, or the occasional shakeup like the “Secondary Characters Coup” of 1991, there have been so many meta-storylines that no one should be surprised by them anymore.

Regarding today’s strip, I love the idea that all this time it’s been Mike making the editorial and casting decisions.

Re; Our troll, Yeah, I took the bait too, and I should know better!

at last, i hope this is over; lots more important things to talk about.

Or weekdays?