Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 19, 2024

Background work? I thought Mike was the star of the strip — it’s his name on it!

Divider in Chief Barack Obama is doing some wonderful background work as the main arranger of Incoherent Joe Biden’s puppet presidential term of financial despair. Incoherent Joe Biden’s puppet presidency is Divider in Chief Barack Obama’s third term behind all the action. Vote Republican 2024

Oh, boy. Do not feed the Trumpy troll.

Quit griping, BD! You’re among your peers!

Quit whining, Mike. You’ve got a world class daughter.

Some years ago, Frank and Ernest did a cartoon where they were looking into a hotel ballroom labeled ‘Reunion’.

The caption was ‘This can’t be our reunion. There’s nothing but old people in there.’

Still funny.

I have no plans to go to my reunion. If I want to see old people I can just look in the mirror.

Never went to a college reunion. Last high school reunion I went to was in the 90s.

Mark’s ‘84 badge is surely his age not his class year. Hasn’t he aged well?

Snort, when I read this strip, I thought to myself, “huh, zero political fodder here. I bet the criminal’s minions will still try to wedge something in.”

I’ll add my own “zzzzzzzz”

One of many reasons why I don’t go to school reunions.

I never went to a reunion. Those I know who went were disconcerted at how old, bald, and fat everybody else got.

“Who are all these old people?” – my reaction when I go to my high school reunion Facebook page!

I’m waiting for Boopsie to say, “Mike – what’s with the hat?”

This must be their 50th

I was an extra in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. I identified myself to a crew member as “just an extra”. “Don’t say that,” he said, “You’re a supporting player.” In the opera we’re called “supers” (as in supernumerary) – best seat in the house!

When I was a middle school kid these guys were well into college, going to Nam, adult things. They had a good ten years on me.

Now they are my age. I’m comfortable with that.

I go to reunions to show everyone, I’m still on this side of the lawn. Our numbers are dropping fast. Soon, we can all sit at one table.

Whoa! Mike has become the alumni guy in the straw hat.

On an unrelated subject: Have we ever seen Ann Coulter and Marjorie Taylor Greene at the same time in the same place?

(⚆﹏ʖ ⚆)

I want trump to have Lauren Boebert as his V P. She has skills that will come in handy in the oval office.

My mom, in her 90’s did that, ACTRA rates for “background” are pretty good. Her credit list includes ESPN magazine and West Wing, fills a page

When the gay guy says “Heeeyyy, Gorgeous!” to the blonde gal, you know it’s true friendship, not him hitting on her.

Yep, at get togethers I look around at the old people and realize it’s been a while since I took a long hard look in the mirror.

Haven’t we all, Mike.

Never went to one HS reunion don’t miss it. Nothing more that a bunch of BS and drinking. The drinking I could deal with but not the happy BS. See enough of it on FB and more.

Now, now Mike. At least appreciate your special gift – your summer daydreams came true, thus instantly giving you a successful well paying tech job, not to mention a young trophy wife (her words).

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Similar feelings to BD. Living in southern Arizona, have to put up with all those grey haired, slow poke drivers. I’m only 75.

I went to my wife’s 50th high school reunion. I was the “trophy husband”, 24 years younger than she. You could still tell who had been the head cheerleader. :)

It’s funny being the same age as old people.

Mike’s really not that interesting

Mark has a button on it stating “’84” so I gather this is a reunion for the graduating class of 1984. I assumed at first that it would be for the Class of 1974, which I was a member of in college. After all, in the very first Doonesbury strip I ever saw Mike was already in college and obviously a bit older than me. The strip featured a 17 year old girl strolling the college campus looking for a boyfriend and inadvertently meeting Mike, who was not what she had in mind. I remember this one well because I was also 17 at the time (but not looking for a boyfriend!). I know, comic timelines are not the same as the real world; if they were, Mike and the gang would all be over 70 now, which I don’t think is the case.

Doonesbury Sunday color funnies ruin my self-delusion. All week long its Nixon or Reagan or Bush in B&W and I kid myself it’s still the 70’s, or 80’s, or even the 00’s and we all look the same. Then Mark Slackmeyer shows up at the reunion with all salt & no pepper. When did we get old?

They all look good for their (presumed) age. And Boopsie still has her wide-eyed innocence after all these years.

Walden Class of 1970. Hee-whack!

I’m sure you’re a grat MC. Mike.

And Steely Dan’s “What A Shame About Me” starts on the soundtrack as we fade slowly to black.

In the middle of next month I’ll be heading to my 60th college reunion. Fewer and fewer of us left. Fortunately, the Alumni Department is organizing a bunch of undergrads to drive us geezers around on golf carts. My class is being housed in the dorm I lived in during my freshman year.

No mike, not the straw hat. We used to make fun of those people.

The strip is NAMED AFTER YOU, Mike.

Also, the ‘84 button, confirming pretty much everything since Jeff’s birth has taken place in real time. Even with new strips only coming on Sundays for the past several years, Doonesbury has been doing real time better than Gasoline Alley.

Must be a lot like my 50th a month ago, glad I missed it ;-) Have a good week you beautiful people, Heeeey ! Thank ya, thank ya very much!

If there’s a PORKY’S 9, Boopsie will be in it