Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 22, 2017

Hostile? I’d be tempted to sue the SOB.

One person’s art is another person’s trash!

When you leave a marriage, you take your stuff with you, not leave it there.

Of course that is what she places the value of her art at. Not sure the buying pubic would give her that much for it.

I doubt it was worth 3 cents!

Joanie looks like she knew it was garbage as well…

$300,000? I think there might be a couple of unnecessary zeroes there.

“Look out! it’s bad art!” (http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2017/04/01)

Regardless of price, throwing out someone’s work to spite them is a dick move.

They’ll probably show up on Ebay.

He probably didn’t even know it was art. He was probably just cleaning out the closet. Mike seems more sad than vindictive. JJ, on the other hand, would be vindictive.

Joanie is such a good, steady woman… how did she produce two such bizarre kids?

Taking it in context I would assume Mike was co-star in her “conceptual epic” — I bet a lot of us would want to throw out that kind of evidence!

In the comic to which @RUSH STRONG posted the url above, you will see when and why Mike threw out the alleged art. But you will still be left with deciding if he was overreacting or not. Still, this is not the initial revelation of the act.

And I LOVE the little smile on Joanie’s face in the last panel.