Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 22, 2011

Maybe if Mark dyed his hair…

Where are you now that we need you, Christine O’Donnell?

Kim wants no part of Slackmeyer’s gay angst!

Bad Kim! Bad! Bad! Go to sleep!

Poor Mark. But if half his friends are moving, what about the other half? And if Mike hands the phone to Kim – he won’t be sleeping well.

He’ll just have to move to NY, that’s all.

What happened to Chase?

When did Mark’s hair turn white?

Yeah, I was thinking this was the first time I’d seen Mark’s hair drawn white. Guess that means I need to stop looking in the mirror.

What happened to his conservative co-host? I’m sure Rick Perry would be a viable stand-in.

Wow… I know it’s been a while since I’ve seen him, but his hair had way more colour in it than that. It’s like it went white overnight.

I think the wonderful GoComics colorists just missed a spot.

Repeat after me, Mike: “This isn’t my area of expertise. It’s three in the morning. If you need to talk about it more, come over sometime tomorrow afternoon. Bring beer.”

If it’s 3 in the morning where Mike is, then it’s 6 in the morning where Mark is.

I just read a Doonesbury from April 29, 1973 where Zonker asks Mark and Mike what there fantasies are. Mike’s fantasy is to have a healthy relationship with a normal girl. Mark’s fantasy was to have lunch with Liv Ullman. I don’t think I have to say anything more.

Dick Eyechart bitches.

GT’s humorous point is that the sexual problems of a gay friend are not going to get much sympathy from EITHER partner of a straight marriage. Sex for them means intimacy between opposites. Lacking this opposition, two persons of the same gender cannot achieve the miraculous union of “one flesh.”

I don’t think that’s GT’s point, palin, although it might be YOUR point.

Mike and Kim’s respective reactions have little to do with anything other than the time of day (night) at this point. We’ll see tomorrow and the following days what their opinions on Same-Sex marriage might be.

Strange that those who can “achieve the miraculous union of ‘one flesh’” so often seek the advice of their same gender friends. Maybe it’s because those who “a.t.m.u.o.o.f.” never seem satisfied with just one union. Ever see the divorce statistics of opposite gender marriages? Apparently the miraculous union ain’t so special after all.

Liv Ullman? Dang, that must be an old strip..So when is Red Rascal gonna get the Bat Signal from Qadaffi? There’s another dictator-for-life needing to be rescued from his fawning masses.

@jalbeck, what’s a.t.m.u.o.o.f?

Mark’s not the only one conflicted about gay marriage, but I doubt Kim would freak as bad as Der Führer.

Sorry, must apologize to all for getting so upset over the difference between 3 and 3.14159 … . The only exception that doesn’t “conflict” me is pie. Somebody called me “pie man”, and I wasn’t at all upset. That’s because I love pie. Especially pican. Cherry next. Key lime third. Lemon harangue — oops, meringue — fourth. Used to be grapefruit meringue, but I can’t find that any more, and I’m no chef myself. Well, nuff blather, Susan Newman. Have a nice day. —dtπ

I know, I know. Somebody’s gonna nail me if I give the formula for the area of a circle — pi r square — which I do say. But they’re gonna say, “Everybody knows that pi r round,” meaning “Pie are round”. But I’ve actually eaten rectangular pie. Go figure. —dtπ

Wow. Mark’s so upset that it turned his hair white!

Seriously, what gives? Has he been dyeing his hair all this time, or was this some coloring mistake?