Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 04, 2010

Well, I’ve got the comic archive on my PC, so they’re safe.

This reminds of its once rival strip, Bloom County.

Either this story is set in the distant future, or Doonesbury has a fan base dating back to 1560. If the latter, Dr. Who must somehow be involved.

Easy to see who did it…… Just use your eyes and brains. No clues else needed

Hugh B. Hayve said, about 4 hours ago “Well, I’ve got the comic archive on my PC, so they’re safe.”

are you kidding? nothing is safe on a PC.

@Avolunteer: Not necessarily. Uncle Stupid-head’s wearing the wrong hat.

Nice to see Honey again, though.

TimeWeaver’s got it.

I’m just happy to see new material and not another Flashback! :)

Reminds me of the old adjuster’s gag, that most fires are started by the friction of the mortage rubbing up against the insurance policy.

where do you get 450? my third panel says 40!

Could this be a sign that this strip is about to fold? Gary is in his 60’s, I’ve heard.

Unless something has changed, my strip also says 40 years of reader inquiries.

Hmm. I just read the strip someplace else and it does indeed say 450 years.

Is Trudeau paying homage, in some mysterious way, to Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”?

Didn’t the strip boast of going digital in some Sunday strips?

better to go digital than to go postal.

Sounds like it may have been a simple typo (with perhaps Freudian-slip implications of the gravity of it all), and has been corrected; easier online than clawing back the dead-tree version.

If all our history ever goes digital, revisionism will become all too common. “Primary source documents” will become an oxymoron, or one of those terms that disappear from the language, like “broken record”, “wind your watch”, “dial the telephone”, etc.

Hmmmm. 450? 40? Someone’s messing with our minds!

I show 40 in the 3rd panel. My $$$ is on Duke torching the mail silo

On the MSNBC site, it says 450 years:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8523679/

The basic link to the comic page there works, but the link to the page itself gets altered too much.

I saw this at “The Washington Post” website, and it also said 450. Typo?

Obviously Trudeau has come to appreciate the commenters here at GoComics, where he can skim through without ever having to answer anyone.

This is giving me ideas on what to do with my backlog of 499 emails! No messy fires needed though, just a simple tap of the delete button. Thanks Mr. T.

So, both letters burned?

The arsonist is, of course, Garry Trudeau!

At gocomics, online, it said 40. At the Houston Chronicle, online, it said 450. Maybe we should take the average?

That’s… hmm… 245. Not much of an improvement.

Mine says 40 years.