Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 12, 2010
Transcript:
Overkill: Here's my problem, Rascal. President Karzai has banned private security contractors... which is very, very bad for my business. I need someone who can reason with him, someone with juice! So I'm thinking who better than the hero of free Afghanistan? Who better than the Red Rascal himself? Jeff: Um... I can find out who. Want me to ask around? I could. Overkill: No, no, I need a stud! Rascal's my boy!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ about 14 years ago
Drink up, Jeff! You’ll need it!
rayannina about 14 years ago
Jeff Redfern: In Waaaaaaaay Over His Head.
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Is Jeff old enough for that drink?
yyyguy about 14 years ago
is he tall enough to be in over his head?
nickmangieri Premium Member about 14 years ago
Where’s the emergency exit?
GrimmaTheNome about 14 years ago
At last though he seems to have an inkling he’s in over his head, so that’s progress of a sort.
Dkram about 14 years ago
One pair of hands over my eyes. The other pair of hands with fingers in my ears.
(Don’t think about it, you’ll get a head ache.)
\\//_
Sandfan about 14 years ago
And the Red Rascal morphs into the Crimson Coward.
jackdohany about 14 years ago
Ummmm… Larry King might be a better choice.
asa4ever about 14 years ago
I found that is is not what you say that gets you in trouble, it is what you allude to. If you know my shoulder patch you knpow what I mean. My family and psych think I am a psychopath.
randgrithr about 14 years ago
Overkill sends a kid in to tapdance for him - waiting to tell him that that’s his job until he’s already on the plane - and the KID is the coward? Too funny!
Welcome to the Mile High Club, Jeff…
ChiehHsia about 14 years ago
Jeff… does the phrase, “carrying your shield or on it” mean anything to you? Nope? Oh well.
Justice22 about 14 years ago
Jeff, You are about to become a hero!
Alabama Al about 14 years ago
So, either Overkill’s a delusional nutcase, or for some dark plan he’s setting Jeff up to be some sort of fall guy.
In real life (or as real as life can get in these circumstances,) either way Jeff would be dead meat. However, since all of this occurs in the mind of Garry Trudeau Jeff will probably somehow come out of it. You will note that those notable “Doonesbury” characters who have died have never died violently.
Nelly55 about 14 years ago
happy birthday Doonesbury
been reading the strip since I was 18………wow
Congrats Gary!
dfowensby about 14 years ago
yeah. i can remember when this thing was REALLY left-wing wierd back during the Nam. ya really oughta run some of those strips, dude!
Dragoncat about 14 years ago
I wonder if Havoc is going to attend that same meeting…
Havoc and the Red Rascal reunited! And just in time for Doonesbury’s 40th…
Dragoncat about 14 years ago
Come to think of it… I wonder how Jeff will dress for this occasion…?
MiepR about 14 years ago
You can say nasty things to spammer comments until the cows come home, but unless you’re doing it for personal entertainment, you’re wasting your time. They don’t read responses. The entire point of spamming is the tiny fraction of a percent of shopper response they get from viewers.
If GoComics wanted to slow this down some, they’d put a several day hold on new unpaid accounts before anyone could comment.
milano99 about 14 years ago
MiepR,
These same yahoos are spamming the Miami Herald, the Chicago Sun Times and, to a lesser extent (the people there must have figured something out to stop it) USA Today. The only thing that will stop them is a series of DDoS attacks on their servers, which I heartily encourage but wouldn’t participate in.
cccare56 about 14 years ago
…and they are spamBOTS, which means computers are sending them out. I highly doubt it’s actual humans doing this…a spambot can easily be programmed to change its ‘user’ name and sign in again.
I just popped over to see the Birthday information for Doonesbury. I am usually over on Pibgorn - and one member there asked about being stared at by all the Doonesbury characters…he found Duke’s stare somewhat unnerving!
countoftowergrove about 14 years ago
Larry said, about 11 hours ago
I found that is is not what you say that gets you in trouble, it is what you allude to. If you know my shoulder patch you knpow what I mean. My family and psych think I am a psychopath.
Well yeah, you’re in what they used to call the Agency.