This was my first thought when I read the strip. I’m not 100%, but yeah, that’s what it looks like to me.
I’m betting pretty firmly Duke’s not dead, and that Honey’s just screaming because they made a vertical leap upward on an overpass in a car from a roadside explosion. (A bit… fantastic for this strip, innit?)
If Duke were dead, Honey would be screaming, “Sir!” not “GAHH!” and looking at him, not straight ahead.
We’ll know for sure in a few hours. The mocking of Torgo will shortly commence.
well, it looks like he survives the explosion.
Can one die from a cavity search?
Well, gee, that didn’t take long at all.
Torgo, Dumbo, he was wrong – doo dah! Doo dah!
Misread Doonesbury all day long! Oh, doo dah day!
The next day: Duke isn’t dead. But he is getting rubber-gloved.
He may very well be dead. The only sure protection against the Grim Reaper is to be on my death-pool list.
If he is in fact dead, I for one welcome our new Togo overlord.
…actually, I thought he was a dead man when this one got posted:
Well, Duke’s not dead today.
But he’s in for a world of hurt.
Think that’d take a whole Sunday spread?
Silenus – I like your sig line, but it’s “Shepherd”. An honorific, like “Father” or “Reverend”.
Corrected, and thank you. I changed it late one night is the only excuse I have. 
If/when Duke finally bites it, it will have to be right after he has said something incredibly snarky to Honey.
If Torgo doesn’t come back to sheepishly eat a little crow, I for one will have lost all faith in humanity.
Mmm…sheepish crow…
Sheepish crow is the only kind Hal Briston will eat.
Haven’t all you Doonesbury “fans” noticed that the Sunday strips no longer have any continuity connection to the daily strips?
I agree with all those who said that Duke was just too useful a character to kill off. Even though Trudeau stopped making him funny years ago, he’s the one to put into all the topical strips for commentary. You could rename the strip “Duke” for that matter, given his importance.
Now to remind Torgo of this forever. 
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This…is…typical. The kind of…ASS I have to put up with from you people! You come in here with your petty complaints, sticking you nose in where it doesn’t belong, well I’m trying to prognosticate a comic strip here! Let me tell you something else; this is exactly how Nazi Germany got started!
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Thanks a lot Trudeau. Jerk.
Did they ever?
As Bill Watterson notes in his 10th anniversary Calvin & Hobbes retrospective, Sunday comics have to be produced two months ahead of schedule to allow time for color separation and whatnot. Throw in the fact that some newspapers will only run sunday strips (or run everything but Sundays), and it’s easy to see why it’s a real bear to make Sundays jive with the “regular” comic.
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Haven’t all you Doonesbury “fans” noticed that the Sunday strips no longer have any continuity connection to the daily strips?
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Papers print the Sunday comics as much as a week ahead, so strips have a longer lead time than dailies. This doesn’t bother most cartoonists, who write a month or two ahead. Trudeau, striving to be topical, has the shortest lead time in the business.
Gosh, I’m sorry, Torgo. We didn’t realize.
Wait a minute…Turdeau wasn’t writing Doonesbury in 1938!
Was Canada even a country in 1938?