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Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: 10Bears on April 25, 2004, 03:40:09 PM

All

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.


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Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Furball on April 25, 2004, 04:05:45 PM

umm...

you weeped at that..


LOL

its a cartoon.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: SOB 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Nash 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....

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: FUNKED1 on April 25, 2004, 05:47:53 PM

People read newspapers still?

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Nash on April 25, 2004, 05:50:16 PM

yeah?

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Maverick 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: rpm 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Furball 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: CavemanJ 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Otto 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Lizking 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Sixpence on April 25, 2004, 09:52:56 PM

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/55_1082947930_sga040418.jpg)

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Nash 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.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: AdmRose on April 26, 2004, 12:08:27 AM

This seem a lot like Forrest Gump to anyone else?

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Nash on April 26, 2004, 12:14:54 AM

You mean how that guy meets the surgeon and through special effects it's really Dick Cheney? Yeah... I caught that vibe too.

The BEST is what the surgeon says at the end: "I am a surgeon. Your awe is thanks enough."

I'm totally gonna use that.

Somebody: "Got the PDF - looks great, thanks."

Me: "I am a graphic designer. Your awe is thanks enough."

:D

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on April 26, 2004, 02:31:43 AM

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

Or to many, many American servicement and women.

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: lazs2 on April 26, 2004, 08:49:06 AM

furball... it's not just a cartoon... It is a LIBERAL cartoon....

It is the only beacon of brave truth out there in a sea of right wing journalists!

It is the holy grail of liberalism.

lazs

Title: This weeks Doonesbury :(
Post by: Curval on April 26, 2004, 08:52:09 AM

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Originally posted by Nash
Me: "I am a graphic designer. Your awe is thanks enough."

:D

"I'm an accountant.  Your awe is thanks enough".

Yea...I like that.

:D