Link Are there panels missing, or did I miss something in the news?
I see one panel with a soldier and the caption: Click! Click! Clickety Click!
Are the soldiers in Iraq running out of ammo?
Trudeau is launching a new blog for military personnel today called the Sandbox. I believe the soldier is supposed to be typing and more will probably be revealed as the week goes on. Link
The strip was a heck of a lot longer in my newspaper today.
Honestly, I spent most of the day thinking that was Roland Hedley. I could imagine a storyline in which he dies in Iraq starting that way. I know Roland is usually played as a buffoon, but I could still imagine him going out decently.
Would someone be willing to describe what appeared in the newspaper?
1st panel: Soldier Hightower’s face and noise of typing.
2nd Panel: Hightower watches another soldier type “it was a dark and messed up night”
3rd panel: Hightower: “hey folks, you may have heard how dangerous its become for the press to cover operations OIF and OEF.”
4th panel: “Result: the public feels increasingly disconnected from the troops in the field. Solution: Let the trooops report on themselves!”
5th panel: “Presenting the SANDBOX- Our command-wide milblog! Starting today, GWOT-LIT has a new home, and its exclusively at Doonesbury.com!”
6th Panel: " At the sandbox, contributors can operate in a clean, lighly edited debriefing environment where all content, no matter how robust, is secured by the first amendment!"
7th panel: Hightower: “So if you support the troops but haven’t a clue what they’re actually up to you owe it to yourself to log onto the sandbox!” Soldier typing: “Dear sandbox: another sleepless night out on the wire…”
8th panel: Hightower: “Its your war, america! Check it out or you know who wins!” Soldier typing: " I think I might have restless leg syndrome".
To the credit of the Akron Beacon Journal, it was run in it’s entirety today. They usually don’t shrink from controversy.
Woah. How much self-selecting censorship is going on in the US these days…?
It ran in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the most conservative newspaper West of the Mississippi. 
What I don’t understand is why the full strip is not running at the Doonesbury website.
Glitch? Or something more sinkister?
Yeah. That’s “sinister” spelled with a cat pawing at the keyboard.
Doonesbury is still being published anywhere?
How about taking your politics elsewhere?
Yep. The Houston Chronicle. Ask your parakeet to let you read the comic section.
I’m guessing that the strip is not being published by many newspapers not because it’s contraverial (its not really) but because its basically a plug. Presumably newspapers don’t want to advertise for free for a alternative source of news for thier readers.
Doonesbury’s website is hosted by Slate, the online news magazine thingy, so presumably same deal there.
I’ve never seen a US daily paper that doesn’t publish it.
:smack:
Let’s pretends this question was asked in all innocence, shall we?
According to the Universal Press Syndicate, Doonesbury “appears in more than 1,500 daily and Sunday newspapers worldwide.”
In addition, a quick persual of amazon.com reveals a couple dozen book collections of the strip are in print.
In short, Doonesbury is one of the most popular, long-lived, and successful cartoon strips published today.
(It is also the only strip I take time to read on a daily basis.)
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