Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 04, 2009

Edit: Ugh, and now the comment I replied to is gone, making mine look weird.

And somebody said the exact same thing reading Doonesbury a generation ago. ;-)

I can remember jokes in Mad magazine over 30 years ago (edit: I never checked the issues’ copyright dates, which could have been even earlier) where they printed about someone being “recent high-school graduate due to answering ad on matchbook-backing”–never in any concept did I think that it would represent something close to actual state of affairs!

Every generation has had its share of stupidheads. The difference now is that we don’t have enough harmless traditional jobs (gas station attendant, barber, stock clerk, etc.) in this country to get them all harmlessly employed. So they’re getting hired for jobs that give them enough power and money to actually become dangerous (stockbrokers, mutual fund managers, etc.)

Is anybody else wondering why Danny and Zipper appear to have switched places? Before today’s strip Danny was on the right. Now Zipper is. If Mr Trudeau is trying to see if we are awake, it has worked.

Epozmanter, it’s just that people have a habit of reading from left to right – so in a comic strip, the person who speaks first has to be on the left. Otherwise readers get confused.

Speaking of details, doesn’t Danny seem to have gotten fatter in the last panel?

Zipper isn’t necessarily stupid. Like his uncle before him, he has raised laziness to an art form. We won’t know what his intelligence level is until he is motivated enough to actually do anything.