Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 25, 2022

Joanie was actually a pretty cruel and uncaring mother.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1973/04/22

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You walked right into that one, Joanie. You should have known better.

It’s pretty obvious that JJ has NEVER grown up!!

What’s interesting is that in an earlier strip, her former husband Clyde plays Joanie a tape of their kids pleading with her to come home, meaning they had more than one child. But later on it seems to be just JJ. I guess Garry decided it’d be better if she only had one child.

Annnndddddd…there it is!

Okay. That bitch Karma just interrupted your momentum. Back off, regroup, and take another tack.

I read the strip from the link above and a few back where she came in from the airport. Was the seven year absence before or after the divorce?

Ouch.

Yep, she deserved that. Guess the apple didnt fall from the tree there…

Classic – avoid taking responsibility by accusing your accuser.

I for one, am glad IT was brought up

It’s quite obvious that Joanie is a horrible mother. Whether it was with JJ or Jeff, she did either a lousy job or no job at all.

Once you make a bad choice, you are sullied forever and should just shut up about everything. Only the perfect may cricitize!

I’m beginning to think that Mike inviting Joannie to his wedding was calculated.

Anybody else here thinking of “The Lost Daughter”? (Anybody else here seen it?)

Wow. You abandon one kid, once, for seven years and you never hear the end of it.

Ouch.Get the first aid kit.

And Joanie’s a lawyer. The first rule is, don’t ask a witness a question you don’t want them to answer.

So this makes Alex 14, if JJ plans to drop out of her life when she is 21

Touche

“Earlier Bad” does not get “Current Bad” off the hook.

hmm that reminds me.. I know Joanie’s backstory on that (I have an OLLLD copy of The Doonesbury Chronicles next to me) .. have we ever seen JJ’s FATHER??

Tziiiinnng! Good one JJ, Joanie so deserved that one.

Yet that’s exactly what you are doing, JJ.

Some people just aren’t meant to be parents. I’m not one, my choice!

Oops…

Joanie has no business throwing accusations at JJ. Not saying that JJ is a shining example of motherhood, but Joanie’s gone over the line in assuming things. I understand that she’s mad because JJ didn’t tell her about the divorce, but this kind of reaction might be part of the reason why!

B’zing.