Doonesbury

Parabeagle

Anyone else as shocked as I am that BD in the Doonesbury comic strip has lost his leg in Iraq??? Or does anyone even read Doonesbury anymore?

ray a

Not really shocked because the characters do take twists and turns just like in real life and the strip mirrors real life. But, it happen suddenly.

Don D

Losing a leg is always sudden Raymond. Sad, sudden, symbolic.

Parabeagle001

I think it's kind of an interesting thing. I've followed the strip since it started, going back to when BD was a football star, when he was in Vietnam, his time in the CHP, etc. But he has never been without his helmet. I think I gasped when I first noticed they removed his helmet. It was only after that I realized his leg was gone.

Guess I've grown up with BD, Mike, Boopsie, et al and it was just a shock. Wonder what's going to happen next.

Cinderella

I never read Doonesbury (I only read that one about Bucky and Satchel the dog and cat - kind of like a new millenium Garfield). However, I heard somewhere that a character was going to be wounded in Iraq.

slogan

I only occaisonally glance at Doonesbury. I have found the strip to be intellectually immature. I find Stone Soup to be more intellectually honest. I did read where Gary Trudeau does plan on taking this segment to be virulently anti-Bush, as is his right.

Parabeagle

That's what I like about Trudeau. He's anti-Bush, anti-Clinton, anti-Bush, anti-Reagan, anti-Carter, anti-Ford, anti-Nixon... he's an equal opportunity provocateur... x;-)

HS

Don't read it, give me Garfield or Kathy any day. Don't get into politics that much, so the same goes for cartoons about it.

Leslie

Way back when it used to be on the op-ed page. Moved it to the regular comic page some time ago. Last week when he realized he lost his leg, and said, "Son of a bit**." There was a blank spot where they usually have it on the comic page telling where they'd moved it because it contained language not suitable for the comic page. They moved it to the page where the advice columnist was - two pages before the comic page.

Paul in Cannon Beach

I grew up reading my brother's Doonesbury collection before I even knew what the political jokes meant. He is definitely talented, bright, and usually pretty funny.

Didn't BD also go to Vietnam? I believe he got a purple heart for when he cut his thumb opening a beer can with his Viet Cong friend Phrank (no joke).