Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 20, 2019

*Duke rescued alive on Thursday.

*The rescue might be pushed back to Friday depending on the flight schedule from Cancun.

Now will Hedley squeal or take a bribe?

Honey may have gotten too organized for her own good.

Honey can predict the whole operation will be a major success?

That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!

Roland should be used to “Spontaneous Events” that are heavily scripted by now…after all, he works for FAUX…

‘Ace In The Hole.’ Wonderfully cynical Kirk Douglas movie about a reporter and a trapped miner.

Just a reminder, this strip is from 1993 when Hedley was working for ABC.

Sounds like a standard battle plan. You have to plan for the victory and what to do with the spoils or whatever is left.

I suppose he’ll sneak back into the lodge in the live of night?

Movies started the “not real reality” thing and television just made it a 24/7 thing, exacerbated by advertising. Not good for cognitive processes. Oh wait….what AM I thinking?

Rescue complicated by finding the Cabin crushed into a pile of Toothpicks and the Cabin end of the Tunnel collapsed.