You have to admire Gary Trudeau of "Doonesbury" as a scripter

[astro]

Jeff the slacker son has been around Doonesbury a while and has many adventures, but that it would ultimately lead to this is still pretty amusing.

[RealityChuck]

One of my favorite bit of scripting for the strip was the time you saw Uncle Duke in front of a firing squad (he was in Iran during the hostage crisis). Then absolutely no mention of him for a year or two.

Finally, one strip had the Iranians releasing a prisoner known as "the bald spy." No name, but everyone reading the strip knew who it was.