Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 30, 2011

Mark: I shared a house with your Mom and worked with your Dad, you little putz.

And make out the check now! Or I’ll disembowel you!

Jeff is telling Mark that his character of Red Rascal depends on Mark’s (and our) imagination. When Mark (or readers) try to expose RR’s author by paying him, Jeff counters by saying we have to pay cash for the book, “as many have.”In other words, GBT turns back our doubts of RR’s authenticity by noting that sales are strong at the Doonesbury Store. And even without buying the book, readers confirm RR’s authenticity by commenting on his character in this blog.

Good point, MassieVoter. You can place a sure bet that Becca is either listening or will find out from Chaz what’s going on. She’s not going to let anything ruin or even diminish book sales. She’s too much of a take-charge babe.

1980s Mark would slap the Rascal in his face.

Whatever happened to him?

I knew his face in that first panel reminded me of somebody else….

http://youtu.be/UwxGdz0PxlQ

That Bugs is a heck of a dancer. ;-7

Panel 4: Sorkh Razil knows how to protect himself against identity theft.

“… there are … quizzes … only 2 for Doonesbury”. 

Meaning:  ______________________________________________? 

Is Doonesbury is more “open” to intellectual interpretation and less so to “canned”, “pat” quizzes with “canned”, pat answers?

People are just going to think it’s a publicity stunt, which it is, intentional or not.

“Sorkh Razil’s” response in panel 3 is a play on Winston Churchill’s famous 1939 description of the Soviet Union: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; . . .”

OTOH, it just might pick up a comic-book/movie/video-game option.

Amazing that he was even allowed onto the plane in that get-up.

What plane?

Got to admit the kid is creative, in a “fort made of dining room chairs” way.

In that getup Jeff could be arrested as a terrorist suspect whether he flies on a plane or not.

He could be arrested on an AIPWDAAI charge. AIPWDAAI = Appearing In Public While Dressed As An Islamist.

No, make it out to cash in order to more properly engage in tax evasion, silly.

Ann Coulter sells a lot of books.

You would have needed a lot of patience and free time too check out the comics yesterday.

This stuff is so serious that you can’t take it seriously.

Becca knows he is doing the tour in character, I think. I vaguely remember Jeff and her talking about it earlier in the story. And I am sure Mark knows exactly who Sorkh is, and is just pushing his buttons.

Whew, looks like the server constipation has passed.

Love the way Jeffery Raz pwns the “seasoned pro”. He makes a better Rascal than a Jeff.

I’m just now beginning to fear that Jeff may be slipping into a form of temporary psychosis. What’s G.B.Trudeau trying to show?

“So when you pay the first base man, who gets the money?”“Every penny. Sometimes his wife picks it up.”

Jeff’s book is “The Red Rascal.” GT’s book is “Red Rascal’s War.” Not the same book. GT’s will take off, but Jeff’s will still bomb. The real mystery is what Becca and her employer see in this boob’s book in the first place. My heart goes out to Rick and Joanie for having to live with the fact that they produced this pimple on the butt of humanity.