Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 15, 2021

In order to understand today’s strip fully, you have to read the following strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1995/10/29

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I would dump her so fast. She deserves Zeke.

Mike, NOW you know J.J. & Zeke is a match made in Hell!!!

Thanks for the link, makes more sense now

Good thing Mike didn’t bring Alex with him. Hopefully he didn’t even tell her how ill her mother supposedly was.

what a sick piece of sh_t!!

“Performance Artists”: Talent-less hacks who have a desperate need for attention, so they will do anything to get it.

and since I’m not paying for this hospital bill you’re going to be in even deeper

Hey, if she’s willing to pretend to be in a coma while they insert the feeding tube you have to admit she’s committed to her art… Or just needs to be committed.

tsk…tsk. Sort of a sneaky selective bit of comic editing to illicit a visceral audience response here, isn’t it? I’m feeling a bit Fox News-ed here.

Better not mention the minicam

For all intents and purposes, she just did.

WHAT???? J.J IS THE WORST!!!!

Run away, Mike! You’re better off without her!

I had no clue that was what she is doing.

This was one of the rare instances in which Garry Trudeau departed from his normal practice of having his big Sunday strip not be an episode in the ongoing weekly story arc. At least he made an exception in 1995, but not during re-run time in 2021.

This gives being fake a new meaning

We need a Doonesbury 2021, so we can understand the dailies.

Pay-per-view coma?

Maybe there’s a book title in this strip.