Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 03, 2011
Transcript:
Drew: You're in school and working fulltime? Toggle: Y-y-yah... it... it's challenge! C-c-couldn't do... without f-f-full support... Alex! Alex has... has my back... always! Can't believe... m-m-my luck! Alex: It's over, Dad! Over: Mike: Calm down, honey - are you sure?
rayannina over 13 years ago
Keep it up, Leo — Drew will tell Alex what you said, and you’re all good.
Snark-impaired over 13 years ago
Oh man, is Alex going to ruin this? Also, what support does she really give Leo? It seems like he’s always having to reassure her about something!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 13 years ago
I’m not sure I’d want a friend like Drew (if I was a girl)…
cdhaley over 13 years ago
Leo is praising Alex just the way he did to her parents at her commencement last year. And Drew, far from acting the seductress, is almost maternal in the way she admires Leo’s devotion to Alex. With all these people concerned for her, Alex looks comic with her self-tormenting
bdaverin over 13 years ago
I see Alex inherited her mother’s taste for over-the-top drama with no meaning behind it.
trspence over 13 years ago
Doonesbury is always great when he stays out of politics and just romps with the usual cast. I’ve been waiting for the latest between Alex and Leo.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
I wonder where the need to have a friend not as pretty or smart as you will end. I wonder if I can find a hunchback BFF with warts. Perhaps one with the combined intelligence of Congress. Body odor a must.
cdward over 13 years ago
In a way, this is predictable. Alex has her intense insecurity, but Leo loves her and only her. Drew, we must believe, is a babe, but she’s also super smart and a good friend. Everyone stays in character, and all is well.
Varnes over 13 years ago
Still, a little flirting wouldn’t hurt…
cdhaley over 13 years ago
@jrmermA love-triangle is beyond GT’s abilities. He’s too conservative to tamper with Alex’s relationships with her two best friends or her father.
lindaf over 13 years ago
Alex is typical of intelligent women. Cultural signals are that that’s not good enough—you have to look good in a bikini. Consequently we spend their lives absolutely certain we don’t deserve what we’ve got and are about to have it taken away from us for cause. That’s one of the reasons I love Alex, in her Trudeau shows he really understands the problem.
babka Premium Member over 13 years ago
whew.
NMmountainz over 13 years ago
Don’t feel happy about the words “trailer-trash”. I live in a trailer in a trailer park. Only here we call them Mobile Home Communities!! No, really, I get the joke, I guess I need to throw a tire or two on my shed! Hang on Alex, Leo loves you!!
TELawrence over 13 years ago
Frankly, I think Drew is a better match for him.
malles over 13 years ago
Anyway to find strips of Doonesbury from the 70’s
FriscoLou over 13 years ago
Yeah Susan, give Alex some credit. Who could relate to/put up with Mrs. DeLuca as well as Alex?