Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 05, 2014

Mike, she wasn’t in to you.

The Jon Arbuckle is strong in this one.

AKHenderson…. no, THIS one will be strong in Jon Arbuckle…who didn’t appear till about 8 years after Mike Doonesbury hit the scene.

a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do

If they stick with this era, soon we’ll see the colorful introduction of Zonker.

it will also be cool to see when and how the introduction of background details emerged

hard to believe this comic got to be so popular.lol

I swore that I’d never relive the 70s, yet here I am. HELP!

I really do hope they run the entire thing from the beginning. I only started reading in the 80s and then I deployed overseas where I didn’t read it again for some time, so it’ll be interesting to read it all!

Durante? with that French Fry? NOT HARDLY!!!

So, let me get this straight: No more new Doonesbury, just reruns from the beginning?.Also, whatever happened to Zonker moving to Colorado to capitalize on then legal MMJ, now just plain legal anything MJ? I think there were four dailies wrapped up in that, then the storyline seems to have been forgotten!

And so, in 1970, Garry Trudeau predicted today’s “100+ Varieties” Coca-Cola fountain machines. Truly prescient.

Must be at the Omega house

New hiatus: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/this-just-in—trudeau-puts-daily-doonesbury-on-long-term-hiatus-to-work-on-renewed-alpha-house-im-ready-for-an-extended-break/2014/02/11/e22bebbe-92d4-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_blog.html

Well, than goodness! Finally, maybe the whinerswill stop complaining about ‘reruns.’ I haven’t taken a count, but I think the majority of them are getting a free ride anyway.

It remains to be seen as to whether we will see the topical strips of the 70"s. Honey, Duke’s companion, was from Vietnam, as was Kim Rosenthal, the Jewish-raised last orphan from Vietnam and Mike’s current wife. Rev. Sloan was a major political guy from the strip as well, a radical guy against the war. Once Watergate came along, we started seeing pics of the White House. This was all great stuff.

He’s going to get his nose stuck in there.

I doubt too many people care for ancient carp, but I hear nuoc mam is highly popular. (Fermented fish sauce in VN)

Ok, I read this one before. In high school. And I have the book.

My newspaper didn’t have the strip for the first several years, so I’m delighted to be able to see these early strips! But it’s also fine if they show more recent ones, just so I get my Doonesbury for the day.

… and the color very much helps this particular strip. In B&W, it looks like Mike is as bare-legged as his date, but his coat doesn’t cover as much as her dress. My newspaper publishes the dailies in B&W — imagine panel three with Mike’s legs the same shade as his date’s legs…. why, it’s downright scandalous!

Oops, you are right, ceylondiver, Honey was from China. I goofed on that one.

Yes Mike. You are cool in your suit & tie. The ladies are digging you. Big time. .I also have a bridge – would you like to put a down payment on it?