Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 11, 2017

Kick ‘em all out Mike.

Time for a house meeting. In the hall. Minus the keys.

He looks just like the Fuller Brush guy.

He must need her to be present to get the money.

Better idea: Mike, leave and take your keys and money with you. Soon as the funds run out, everyone else will clear out, too…

Probably the only passion Duke has ever had is for some type of drug.

Duke and Honey being passionate… that’s one thing I hope to never see.

Cue the stateroom scene from The Marx Brothers…

We know Duke’s not on drugs – he doesn’t have those squiggly lines and spots over his head that are the comix sign that he’s altered his consciousness – he’s just lost all contact with reality when sober. A long time ago!

“My wife”. Not words Duke will utter again.

Mike is beginning to realize that the inmates are running the asylum.

This arc is very reminiscent of my apartment in Greenwich Village back in the day.

No Dukes, Zonkers, or Honeys, but…. some of the wackos wandering in and out, at all hours of the day and night, were pretty damn close !

Many became the basis for characters in some of my stories.

In some ways, with their mutual if varying disconnects from reality, Duke and Honey really do suit, and deserve, each other.

A hottie like Honey is hard to resist.

Rage is a type of passion, I guess.