Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 18, 2010
Transcript:
Overkill: It's the palace! We're on for today! Jeff: Hey, great, boss! Overkill: No other contractor has been able to meet with Karzai! We owe it all to the Red Rascal! Jeff: Sweet! Overkill: No screwups, kid. It's all on the live here - our whole Afghan operation! Jeff: I won't let you down, Mr. Overkill! Overkill: He needs to know we're a serious outfit and... Jeff: I'll go get into costume!
Redhead55 about 14 years ago
Oh geesh. There goes the operation from the git-go.
MiepR about 14 years ago
I guess this is the costume he’s been using for the Facebook photos. Sensible to bring it along…you never know.
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Jeff thinks the costume is a serious outfit.
pouncingtiger about 14 years ago
This doesn’t look good for Jeff.
thirdguy about 14 years ago
The kid just might have the cojones to pull this off!
mckelja about 14 years ago
Nice banana.
alan.gurka about 14 years ago
It’s not a costume, it’s a uniform! Did he buy it from our neighborhood spammer?
heeyuk about 14 years ago
Is that banana loaded?
Potrzebie about 14 years ago
I hope to see the red rascal in a mandress!
randgrithr about 14 years ago
Watch out for those grapefruits too.
Dragoncat about 14 years ago
So much for “serious outfit”…
Oh, well… If he’s going to have his million-dollar head chopped off, he might as well be in character.
Dirty Dragon about 14 years ago
It’s so much easier to appear sincere if you have a total lack of self-awareness. (You betcha.)
rotts about 14 years ago
OMG! Funftuppelspammerflaggen!
thirdguy about 14 years ago
Is there a spam convention going on? I didn’t get the memo.
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
Capitalism in a free society. What a wonderful thing. Glad there are no government restrictions on those guys selling stuff. We sure don’t ever need that kind of evil interference with our lives. (Irony 101. Please reference “Roxanne”.)
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
RR seems to have to have lost his head and forgotten that he’s a legend in their minds and legends don’t often seem so big in real life. They even lose their heads in certain societies.
Nemesys about 14 years ago
If there were government restrictions on these guys selling stuff, there could just as easily be government restrictions on our comments about these guys selling stuff.
The Constitution can be annoying sometimes, but hey, it’s the only one we got. GoComics, on the other hand, can put any restrictions they like upon who gets to post here.
I’ve been waiting for Garry to do a Palin-a-Thon just before the elections, but maybe he’s finally realized that ragging on the right simply annoys the Independents and backfires. The Red Rascal theme is a “present” vote, which is probably a good idea right now.
cdward about 14 years ago
I confess to feeling about Jeff the way some feel about the pelican in “Daddy’s Home.” And by “some” I mean those who want him somewhere else.
ChukLitl Premium Member about 14 years ago
In societies where human sacrifice is popular, the victims are generally volunteers to be elelvated to godhood. They’re getting shortchanged with just 72 virgins.
dfowensby about 14 years ago
eeew. eternity with a buncha virgins??? (oh yeah: those guys better hope theyre not male virgins. heh) give me a couple dozen nymphos for my godhead. er, hood.
BrianCrook about 14 years ago
Interesting argument, Nemesys. if you equate commerce with speech, then I trust that you would approve the legalizing of all currently illegal drugs.
MisngNOLA about 14 years ago
Mr Crook, I for one do advocate such. The “war on drugs” is just a tired rehashing of the failed policy of Prohibition. It’s created the same issues (more violence though) and hasn’t done a thing to stop personal use of most of the drugs covered by the controlled substances list. The list also continues to grow longer as each time a substance, naturally produced or otherwise is found which gives the user a measure of what he/she wants, the Federal government moves to ban it by adding it to the list. I would take bets at high odds that more people have been killed in the war on drugs than have died due to illicit drug use. But of course we know that the war on drugs is big business for police departments, prison systems and the like as much of the operating budgets for many of these institutions depend heavily on money raised by the Constitutionally shaky seizure of property in drug busts.