Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 08, 2021

Remember to take your insurance card.

“Help with the tab” = pay everything with your card.

Zeke will a 20% handling fee to the bill.

Smooth, Zeke…

♪ I know, I know; it’s serious ♫

I see a scam coming on!!!

She’s dead? He couldn’t get that lucky.

Did Zeke run up a bar tab he can’t pay, or is he referring to J.J.’s medical bill?

The answer should be " NO " !

That’s great. YOU create a problem and want ME to pay for it. Kinda sounds like someone in politics.

Can’t believe our newspaper dropped this excellent strip last week

Sorry. Time’s are hard here too.

God this reminds me of how my marriage went. Every time my wife left me for someone else she cleaned out the bank account and left me scrambling to cover the bills. Then she would come back when the money ran out and act like nothing happened.

The old mother/wife/child needs an operation is one of the oldest scams known, since the invention of surgery.

Wow, what a surprise. The leech shows his true colors yet again!

Probably a good reason why divorce is better that trial separation.

How much time has elapsed, since JJ & Zeke left ?

Dead would be better, but I guess there’s no story in that.

Zeke isn’t one to let a good crisis go to waste, Mike you’re about to be scammed.

Now he realizes that no news was good news.