Author Topic: This weeks Doonesbury :( (Read 1254 times)

10Bears · « **on:** April 25, 2004, 03:40:09 PM »

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I been following Doonesbury for the past thirty years.. Many of his pieces are hard hitting but nothing.. nothing compares to this!..

This is the first time I recall a comic strip that has made me weep. As some of you may have heard, BD, has his helmet removed... That’s not the only thing removed.

Furball · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:05:45 PM »

umm...

you weeped at that..

LOL

its a cartoon.

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:08:07 PM »

Hands Furball the flame retardant underwear that he may require sooner than he thinks......

Btw - there is normally a ratio of 7-1 casualties to deaths from combat, there will be an awful lot of real life BD's out there.

SOB · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:44:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
umm...

you weeped at that..

LOL

its a cartoon.

Not only is it a cartoon, it's a crappy cartoon.

Nash · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:43:52 PM »

Really very bizarre. I aint a follower of comics, but they should prolly stick to whatever it was they did that got them in the funny pages in the 1st place and leave the editorializing to the editorial pages.

Weird....

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:47:53 PM »

People read newspapers still?

Nash · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:50:16 PM »

yeah?

Maverick · « **Reply #7 on:** April 25, 2004, 06:12:46 PM »

About the only thing I feel the local paper does right in my home town is to put Doonesbury on the editorial page.

rpm · « **Reply #8 on:** April 25, 2004, 06:14:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Nash
Really very bizarre. I aint a follower of comics, but they should prolly stick to whatever it was they did that got them in the funny pages in the 1st place and leave the editorializing to the editorial pages.

Weird....

Doonesbury has always been about editorials...since the start.

Furball · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2004, 06:33:50 PM »

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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Hands Furball the flame retardant underwear that he may require sooner than he thinks......

why? because i took the piss outta a cartoon? or is it the situation you are talking about?

i dont sit there bawling every time i read Bader's story, and he lost both legs! so its twice as bad!

and its real.

CavemanJ · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2004, 09:31:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
why? because i took the piss outta a cartoon? or is it the situation you are talking about?

i dont sit there bawling every time i read Bader's story, and he lost both legs! so its twice as bad!

and its real.

Because you don't know what life events that strip might relate to for him.

Otto · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2004, 09:40:10 PM »

Where was this 'Cartoon' strip shown in your Newspaper. On the Editorial Page or in the Comic section? If it was on the Editorial page I could accept it as an 'Cost-of-War' statement buy the Editorial Board of the paper. If it was in the Comic section, I don't see what's so funny.

Doonsbury has been pulling this stunt for years and it's getting stale.

Lizking · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2004, 09:47:38 PM »

Doonesbury's problem is that they mix too much storytelling in with the editorial. Duke running a town in Iraq, at war against Halliburton? It is just stupid, and has been for about 20 years.

Sixpence · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2004, 09:52:56 PM »

Nash · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2004, 11:33:48 PM »

Ah, so it's actually IN the editorial section in some papers down there (not the NYTimes, WSJ or USA Today IIRC). Makes more sense. I don't know where I've seen the comic, but it wasn't in the editorial section.