***SPOILER DOONESBURY FOR TUESDAY 4/27****

[No2W2004]

[mike_c]

1. sh*t....

Chronicles of our time. Are the adults in charge yet?

[MikeG]

2. I know its just a cartoon, but...

It's been a while since I've seen something this sad.

[mike_c]

4. I've been back three times to look at it....

This will be a classic. Actually, the entire BD wounding series will be revisited over and over,IMO. GT nailed this one solidly.

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Oh no ! Is morphene an old friend from Viet Nam?

Or is BD just in love? Pretty much the same receptors either way. :hippie:

[MissMarple]

5. Google Faluja, it's a sad thing.

The process affects the product.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. This is the first time I've ever seen B.D. without a helmet on

When he was in school, it was a football helmet. When he volunteered to go to Vietnam to get out of taking a test in college (I can't remember the subject), he got his first military helmet.

Showing him without his helmet covering 80% of his face makes B.D. appear more vulnerable and human. It's a powerful storyline. Trudeau is walking a very fine line between tragedy and humor.

[wabeewoman]

7. Great story about Doonsbury and the war

It's hard to say which was more startling Wednesday morning: the sight of "Doonesbury" character B.D. minus a leg - or minus his helmet.

As longtime fans of Garry Trudeau's popular comic strip know, B.D. has never, ever, been seen without a helmet of some kind - be it football, Army or motorcycle-cop variety. It's been his signature characteristic from the day he appeared in the first strip Trudeau ever drew back in 1968 when the cartoonist was still a student at Yale. That helmet is how fans - and I'm one - recognized him. It's as familiar a feature as Mike Doonesbury's wire-rims or Zonker's goatee



http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/story/5007439p-4935348c.html