I can’t find the strip in the Tribune, and I haven’t seen any explanations anyplace. It wasn’t in the dailies this week and it isn’t in today’s Sunday edition. Is this another instance in which they don’t run the strip because it’s contrary to their reactionary political views? Or have they dropped it completely? I can find it on Slate and it surely isn’t controversial. Did they just pull the plug?
Maybe they’re not running flashback weeks…
The last strip series ended with the twins about to be born. This week has been a flashback.
Trudeau is taking the summer off to work on a side project, so it’s in reruns (Jeff buying a mansion with his Red Rascal advance check). Perhaps the Trib opted not to pay to run the reruns?
Thanks for posting that question, I was wondering the same thing. In the past, if Doonesbury was too *graphic *for the Trib, there would at least be an excuse given for the absence. Whatever happened, I see that the moronic, unfunny Prickly City has a safe home with the Trib.
Funny thing: I remember when Jeff was foreclosed on and moved home, his mother said she turned his bedroom into a study so he’d have to live in the basement.
When Jeff got his check, the red head (his publisher? agent?) asked if she was going to move out of his parents’ basement.
So I originally thought we had somehow jumped tracks from the twins to Jeff getting another advance check :smack:
Lucky you. Apparently our paper just runs a rerun instead. At least, that’s the only reason I can come up with why we often have a different comic in the Sunday paper than the one shown on the various comic websites.
Yeah, Doonesbury has been pretty all-around awful for the last several years now. Between Alex as a Mary Sue (Trudeau should just start drawing her with a divine nimbus, like Mary Worth’s cartoonist does) and this dumb “Red Rascal” subplot (which seems to be some weird hybrid of Generation Kill and “Isn’t it wacky how much money Millenials are making these days? Just for typing up a website!”), Trudeau should have packed it in a long time ago.
The Red Rascal thing sort of escapes me, but Doonesbury still kills much of the time. It’s one of the main reasons we still have the paper delivered. The occasional shot at the conservative tenor of the times still tickles, and I particularly appreciate his take on the edubiz.