It is so great to have Doonesbury back live. Since he returned, his work is better than ever. You must read the December 27th version.
Why? It’s just typical liberal Republican-mocking. The last two weeks, focusing on Alex and the babies and the nanny, are the real reason to be happy he’s back.
Moving over to Cafe Society.
Hal Briston - MPSIMS Moderator, Doonesbury fan since age 8 (when all the political jokes went right the hell over my head).
Sorry, but count me among those who think that Alex and the babies are banalities unworthy of his powers. He needs to stick to politics and social commentary.
His first generation were interesting because they did things, and those things were always zeroed in on the zeitgeist. Even young Alex was part of myVulture.com after the dotcom bubble burst.
Now what? Oooh, she can’t get a good job. Her veteran husband can’t get a good job. The slackers Jeff and Zipper can’t get good jobs. That’s a piece of today’s world, but a tiny piece that doesn’t truly represent the younger generation. He needs to do more and better.
He should have stayed on the bench. Doonesbury hasn’t been funny or relevant in decades.
I love both! Both the “soap opera” about the characters we’ve come to know over all these years – and the excellent political commentary. It’s a nice combination, and I’d hate to lose either of these two facets of the strip.
(If someone were to publish the “Red Rascal” novels…I bet they’d sell pretty doggone well!)
My local paper just stopped carrying it a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, but it didn’t used to be an either/or. It was both - soap opera and connectedness. I’m missing that.
So now Garry Trudeau is writing material based upon his own set of twins born over 20 years ago. What timely and biting commentary this will be!
Doonesbury retains it’s cutting edge. Still covering the Vietnam war and the issues of another time.
Have you read the strip in the last thirty years?
There were always sequences of pure character, pure politics, and the interaction. None of the characters were involved in any of the strips about the Nixon White House, for instance.
Not that I’m thrilled about the Alex sequence. I can assure you that it is not hard for someone with a PhD from MIT to get a job, even today.
So you think Mallard Fillmore is a laff riot. :rolleyes:
They have comic strips in newspapers now? Will wonders never cease!
My guess would have been that Jeffy thing.
Jeffy is too sophisticated for Clothy. Goes right over his head.
Are those who are criticizing the strip as purely liberal aware of the stories involving soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, including BD’s recovery from the loss of his leg, Mel’s experiences with command rape and Toggle’s traumatic brain injury?
BTW, a current plotline has Alex, the MIT graduate with a BS in computer science and a PhD (presumably also in computer science), stuck working at Starbucks. Surely she can find a job that’s in her field, and presumably pays better than a Starbucks barista?
Yes I have, and do read it in my daily paper. The strip has not moved on in many years. It keeps rehashing the same issues with new characters.
Trudeau hasn’t had an original idea in 30 or 40 years. Or even something new to say.
Remember when he use to poke fun at the President, no matter what party? Clinton was as good a target as Bush. Do we get any criticism of Obama, or even a mention? No.
He is back to a standard. War vet, twins, seen it all before.
Wow, I know we live in nasty, selfish, demanding, bitchy times, but I really did not expect such narrow-minded, humourless, howling complainers. Have any one of you actually ever tried writing or respected the ability to keep alive a series which tells a whole satirical story in a few frames? (answer surely is NO).
Last week I saw a tablet advertised for $129. (v. cheap for where I live & what it offered). There were so many lengthy reviews of it by people who usually can only write a bumper-sticker line before exhausting their abilities. So much like the Doonesb. critics. The common thread was ‘good, but not great’ and most made long lists of what they expect today in their electronics - for $129??? Seemeth me that today we have a large percentage of the population who luckily know everything, demand everything (cheap), pride themselves on criticizing everything, are humourless and seriously lack perspective.
Er… Twins? Was there a significant previous “twins” plot in Doonesbury? I’ve been a fan since the first collection came out, and I’m not flashing on any twins plot.
(“Oh, wow, look at the moon.”)