I was pretty surprised to see that in Get Fuzzy this morning. Actually I didn’t know that was the name of that strip until I put two and two together here. Anyway, if the two are related then the internal clocks of the two strips aren’t synchronized, since he couldn’t get a call about it while it’s happening, but I do think it would be an interesting crossover. But I was always under the impression that BD was based on a 60s Yale football star named Brian ‘BD’
Dowling, which would mean that BD couldn’t equal Bill/William.
The Providence Journal reported today in a sidebar that BD has in fact lost a leg. They did so because they still print Doonsebury on the comics page and wanted to alert people that there would be some possibly upsetting material coming up.
Thirteen years ago, during the first Gulf War, it was pretty obvious that Trudeau was planning EXACTLY the same series of strips he’s going to use this week. You may recall that he had B.D. under heavy fire, in a jeep that got blasted.
Of course, Trudeau was about as prescient as usual that time, and the war was all but over by the time his daring, shocking strip saw print.
THIS time, war with Iraq isn’t going so smoothly, so he decided to dust off his 13 year old plot anbd re-use it.
Well that would explain why it said “Flashback” when it was in my email box this morning and I couldn’t figure out when I’d ever seen it before (nor where it might belong in the timeline.)
It said “flashback” somewhere? I was wondering if the strips were out of order; last week they were showing repeats about Zonker’s nephew and his CIA intern roomy, and today BD is fighting for his life. I missed the “kaboom”.
Last week’s strips with the intern looking at porn sites were repeats. This week’s strips are/will be new. Doonesbury at Slate has had “flashback” on it for a while now.
What was up with the comics today? Doonesbury and Get Fuzzy have already been metioned, but the Mom in Heart of the City looks like some one just died.
It’s gotta be a coincidence, right? Like when B.C. Blondie, and Fox Trot all have golf themes.
I have it emailed to me from ucomics.com
Usually, if it’s a first release - the Subject is “Your Doonesbury <date>”
If it’s a rerun, the Subject is “Your Doonesbury (Flashback) <date>”
This morning’s said “(Flashback)”
I’m not familiar with Mom in the Heart of the City, but it’s certainly not unheard of for cartoonists to band together on a topic that they strongly believe in. Boondocks has also been a harsh critic of the war, perhaps the harshest, but doesn’t appear to be in on this one.
The MS-NBC story on this mentioned editors concerns about language later in the week.
I wonder how fat Trudeau is going to push it.
Apparently, Heart of the City is treating a less serious subject.
Thank you for the heads up. I do not follow DB as closely as I once did.
Was there a ‘Boom?’ of did we just start with aftermath? (Option Two would be more realistic in my experience.)
Maybe, but I’m not sure. Not being familiar with the strip, I can only speculate, but the way the mother appeared in a daze on Monday suggests there might be more to it than the smoking.
Link to an article about the developments in both “Doonesbury” and “Get Fuzzy”. No mention of a cross-over. (Although “Dilbert” had Get Fuzzy as a guest artist a few months ago, featuring a psychol dilbert.)
Judging by the clock on the wall reading 11 am, and her glass of wine and cigarette, my guess is she just got laid off.
If you can’t rip off yourself, who can you rip off from? 
ShibbOleth:
That’s because Aarom Magruder has forgotten how to write stories but instead has devolved into a simple talking-head comment strip. And said comments are usually more predictable than Mallard Fillmore’s.
Personally, I doubt that Get Fuzzy is doing a cross-over. Despite his occasional breaking of the fourth wall and the fact that certain non-realistic characters have taken on a life of their own (Mr. Butts, anyone?), Trudeu’s strip is too inherently realistic to cross over with a strip featuring talking animals.
perhaps that’s why Rob’s going to Andrews A.F.B. to see his cousin, presumably sans Bucky and Satch? we can but dream…
According to last week’s New Yorker, he doesn’t even do the cut-and-paste art any more, but farms it out to subalterns. And he’s extended his one week vacation to two weeks.
Guy’s too bloody lazy to be a cartoonist.
Maybe he’s been taking lessons from Piro of Megatokyo.