Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 20, 2014

Rerun – see you next week.

Hey GB….you took like 5 months off…what up with the reruns?

MORE reruns? Does Garry really want this job?

I wish when they did reruns they would go WAY back, to the glory days. Or at least sometime before the last three years…

More rerun garbage…

Federal Holiday – MLK Day.

I guess GT will be doing reruns until the end of the Obama administration. Wouldn’t want to get too topical with the current Democratic failures in governance.

Trudeau must be having to help out on another episode of Alpha House.

Sunday’s, though new, was about Roland tweeting. This is about Red Rascal. Advertised at the right hand side of the page is … well, what a surprise. Agree that we deserved a bit more of the new ones before a rerun, unless there is an emergency reason for it.

Picking up on a comment by DavyG yesterday, the 10 commandments HAVE been done in 140 characters or less, albeit originally as textspeak;http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/god-texts-the-ten-commandments

@rpmurray, not every president can start 2 useless wars, cut taxes for the rich, double the deficit, oversee the Great Recession, have photo ops cutting brush on his Texas ranch, and never even get out of breath.

Alpha house is trudeau’s baby too, not just Doonesbury. Alpha house was a huge hit, so I’m sure they are clamoring for more on amazon. Jeff bezos has surely let him know by now that they want more content. Trudeau will have to figure out how to juggle both. I hear he was on set every step of the way when they filmed alpha house. You can tell when you watch alpha house, as it has the Trudeau style.

Could GoComics set up a forum for people who’s contribution is “spotting” reruns? I’ve seen these comments before.

Garry is 65 now. He certainly doesn’t HAVE to do this. I’m thankful for any new material he can give us.

I have noticed that often those who complain the most about the reruns tend to be GT’s biggest critics. That seems odd. It reminds one of the old Woody Allen joke of the two old ladies visiting a resort in the Catskills. One of them says, “the food here is terrible!” And the other says, “yes, and they are such small portions too!” Yes, life is just one big, long, grueling journey. And then it is over much too quickly and it seems much too short.

Oh, there’s shots being fired every day. Just not by the people that have been subjugated. They make sure of that.

Sorry for the understandable frustration caused by the reversion to Flashback strips today. The syndicate sent a notice to client newspapers indicating that GBT couldn’t file new material for this week due to an illness in the family.

Rick, father of Jeff to the rescue!!!

You know, it seems like Trudeau goes thru more stretches of reruns than he does originals.

Maybe worth pointing out he’s 65..most of us are retiring then.

What’s bad is Trudeau is repeating things so if it is a rerun you can’t tell. A couple of weeks ago with Mel I thought that was a rerun.

If you ever want to know whether the day’s Doonesbury is a previously-published strip or not, just check Doonesbury.com. There’s a little hand-written “Flashback” that appears on the left side of the first panel when it is (like today). Oddly enough, we can’t get that special header to appear here on GoComics.

Despite what you believe, President Obama is not preparing to use armed drones on Americans in this country..You anti-Obama folks should really consider a therapist. These delusions can rule your lives.

not worth commenting on

This week is a rerun of the week of January 9, 2012. It was the last week of reruns before Trudeau permanently stopped doing dailies after February 8, 2014 (only Sundays since then, at least so far).