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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 11, 2010
Transcript:
Voices: Help us! Help! Noise: BOP BOP! BOPBOP! Jeff: Mom? I want to come home. Joanie: Are you drunk? Stay where you are... For weeks, the Rascal broods in his lair... deaf to injustice... indifferent in battle... stripped of his pride, his job... in fact, everything... but his cell phone.
Vista Bill Raley and Comet⢠over 14 years ago
The end of a brilliant career?
mrbribery over 14 years ago
âMom I want to come home.â
âoh and I need fifty million dollars.â
randgrithr over 14 years ago
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton just sent out an email blast asking for money for his Hillaryâs campaign debt. This July his daughter Chelseaâs wedding cost over 22 million dollars. They didnât seem to have any trouble paying for that. Then he goes and sings kumbaya with Obama about maintaining the Bush tax cuts for the nationâs most wealthy.
If Trudeau is âteachingâ anything with these strips itâs how to giggle at trivia and propaganda while the power elites rip you blind.
thirdguy over 14 years ago
I didnât know that FOX was auditioning, for a new âtalking pointsâ person.
Sandfan over 14 years ago
I always suspected that Jeff would wind up in Momâs basement.
For anyone interested, here are the tax facts:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
randgrithr over 14 years ago
Not caring really does begin with them not caring about you. Children learn what theyâre taught. So hurry up with the ânot caring about people who donât care about youâ part, Jeff, itâll make you fit into Not Momâs world a LOT better and make you look a lot less foolish to some others.
asa4ever over 14 years ago
A mixture of Clonazepam, Citalopram and Divalproex does wonders to forget the ,um, everything. You do need a prescription.
Alabama Al over 14 years ago
Perhaps we have all been taken for a ride by Trudeau. Itâs beginning to appear that the whole âOverkillâ story was just a delusion of Jeffâs. Was Jeff ever actually in Afghanistan as a part of Overkillâs organization? As âDoonesburyâ goes to another storyline, I guess weâll have to wait at least another 3-4 weeks to find out.
randgrithr over 14 years ago
You sound like you have a lot of experience with that, Larry.
asa4ever over 14 years ago
12 years.
odeliasimone over 14 years ago
I see this as a true crisis of character in Jeff. Were his intentions as the Red Rascal to truly help people or be the center of attention to satisfy his own ego. The smaller people are crying out for help here. Will he continue to feel sorry for himself or will he overcome and realize that it doesnât matter if he failed a missionâŚ. it is about the people needing himâŚ. not him gratifying his own ego. Will he run back home to momma or will he grow up?
puddleglum1066 over 14 years ago
Alcohol works pretty well, too (âthose drinking to forget, kindly pay in advanceâ), but Clonazepam, Citalopram and Divalproex might be easier to get in Afghanistan.
Mythreesons over 14 years ago
I Googled âClinton Wedding Costâ and it ranged from 2 to 5 Million dollars. RANDGRITHER must have been taking those medications you are writing about. Or he watches Fox News. Where on earth would he come up with a 22 million dollar estimate???
diggitt over 14 years ago
Lest anyone be snookered by Sandfanâs tax foundation link, just be aware that itâs staffed by Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, George Mason-type philosophers.
Founded in 1937 ought to be the first tip-off â five years into the New Deal and founded by Roosevelt-haters â people with lots of money and not a nickelâs worth of concern for others.
If it were up to the Tax Foundation, we would have no Social Security, no Medicare, and most of us would be plantation workers living in unheated huts.
Justice22 over 14 years ago
@ Mythreesons,,,, The $22 million was in an e-mail sent around by Republican supporters. It was also reported as anything from $30,000 to $100 million. My Republican friends made sure i knew how extravagant the Clintonâs were.
Oh, Yes, The taxpayers paid for it too.
FriscoLou over 14 years ago
The old âFolks I just got bustedâ is always a tough call to make, and who among us hasnât been in Jeffâs shoes before? Arenât we supposed to lose a little cynicism and be more compassionate during the holiday season?
At least some people have the same aspirations for their children as Joanie does.
cdhaley over 14 years ago
The only reality Jeff discovers is his âself,â which immature persons commonly equate with their soul. For reality, you have to look beyond comic strips to historical legends like Elijah.
When Jezebel persecuted Elijah because heâd killed all her priests of Baal, Elijah fled south to a cave on Mt. Sinai. Like Jeff, he despaired and asked Yahweh to take his life, since heâd lost the battle with YHWHâs enemies. Yahweh tells him to go out and stand on the mountain.
What Elijah experiences next is not a cell-phone call. âAnd behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks, but Yahweh was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but Yahweh was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but Yahweh was not in the fire; and after the fire, a still small voice.
âWhen Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, the voice said to him, âWhat dost thou here, Elijah?ââ
It will do Jeff no good to hear from his mother or even from his creator (Trudeau), because heâll never ask himself the real, adult question: What dost thou here, Redfern?
agentadq over 14 years ago
âGee Mr. Wizard, looks like I made a mess out of things again.â Heh, Heh, Alvays, Alvays, I tell you Tutor: âBe just wot you is, Not wot you is not, Those that do dis, Are the happiest lot.â
FriscoLou over 14 years ago
Well, since weâre quoting verses;
Oh father high in heaven â smile down upon your son Whose busy with his money games â his women and his gun. Oh jesus save me! And the unsung western hero killed an indian or three And made his name in hollywood To set the white man free. Oh jesus save me! If jesus saves â well, heâd better save himself From the gory glory seekers who use his name in death. Oh jesus save me! I saw him in the city and on the mountains of the moon â His cross was rather bloody â He could hardly roll his stone. Oh jesus save me!
Hymn 43
The remarkable thing about the words of Tull was that, they were written before RR was Prez. Itâs almost as if Ian Anderson is a prophet.
Bonus lesson
Dragoncat over 14 years ago
If Jeff feels depressed now, wait until he gets homeâŚand has to face his father.
You know⌠The one who already thinks of his son as a screw-up?
Funny thing is⌠I remember when Jeff was a little boy asking Mom for a ride to school, because his father was too busy playing - are you ready for this? - VIDEO GAMES!!!
I distinctly remember Jeff telling his mom, âI donât want to be late again.â
And one day, when Dad was meeting Jeffâs teacher, Dad still had video games on the brain.
SoâŚ. How did Jeff become such a screw-up? GUESS!!!