Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 07, 2011

Nobody’s good enough to be at this funeral.

Not even the deceased.

JJ and Uncle Stupidhead deserve each other.

Nobody else deserves them, with the possible exception of Idi Amin …

JJ is one of those people for whom it could be said that, although you may not realize it, when you look upon her you are gazing in that moment at the exact Center of the Universe.

As self-absorbed as JJ is, still she apparently has managed some accomplishments – which makes her continued relationship with Zeke all the more dumfounding. In reality, as entranced as she may have been with this “Bad Boy” in the beginning, by now JJ would have almost certainly have dumped this loser for perhaps another “Mr. Better.”

This will not end well…

The Commissioner would undoubtedly be interested in Zeke’s pregame routine.

Baslim - most probably high tide. Who’d want to be swept inland??!!???

I want to be cremated and sprinkled over a nudist colony so I can continue to irritate as many people as possible….

Biofuel me.

Burial at sea for me. Don’t waste the energy to burn my bones, and feed the fish and shellfish upon so many of which I feasted during my time here. Harvest any useable organs first if you’d like.

I think Zeke is a little embalmed himself.

Will the funeral be over soon? Please let me know. Thank you.

I wonder what inspired Trudeau to turn JJ into such a skank? She seemed ok when they were married, now she’s the stereotypical hated ex-wife.

Me, I’m taking a cue from George Carlin – I want to be BLOWN UP!

I don’t see JJ as a skank. She doesn’t sleep around too much… don’t forget that she was engaged to Zeke before she married Mike, who gives her as much bleeep as he takes from her. GT also had her winning the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation award for her performance art.

Besides, in some ways she’s right in this series. Funerals are not for dead people… they are for those who are not dead yet.

“He won’t touch your precious liquor,” she says…

I’d say he already has, and now he wants to touch something else…

PRE GAME dragon. he came drunk.

Can we have a double burial, since Zeke is already dead drunk?

I see Stupid head is opening his mouth again…..

Im going to a funeral tommorow, think Ill pre game myself

In GT’s book 40 Years of Doonesbury he comments that JJ exists, among other reasons, as a commentary on Joanie. If you’re a longtime Doonesbury reader, you’ll remember that Joanie was a harassed wife and mother when she ran out her front door and rode away on the back of Mark’s motorcycle, accompanied by Mike, in their college days. Joanie had no compunction about leaving her unnamed daughter – that is, JJ–and giving up custody.

JJ disappeared from sight when Joanie gave up custody and only reappeared years later when, as a freshman at Georgetown, she knocked at Joanie and Rick’s door and introduced herself. You could see even then that she was amazingly obtuse and self-centered, and she was introducing Zeke as her fiance. Zeke disgraced himself, JJ broke up with him, and Joanie introduced Mike to JJ. Mike was smitten and in no time the two were married. They split up just when JJ found out she was pregnant with Alex and got back together after JJ gave birth on cable.

FWIW, I attribute GT’s casual treatment of the child JJ to the fact that he was a college kid, or only just out of college, and immature enough to not understand that parenthood really is a bigger commitment than he made it appear. In this case, though,it’s Joanie who carries the can for whatever louse JJ turns into.

I wish to be cremated, my ashes ground-up & added to douche powder.

diggit, thanks for filling in some character gaps for me!

JJ is the absolute worst!! LOL the only comic strip character that irritates me this much!!

Seriously, Why does JJ always brings Zeke wherever she goes? Not that I necessarily seriously dislike zeke, But why?