Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 24, 2023

Make sure you made the most recent insurance payment.

That third panel packs powerful drama as the evil greased cogs spinning in Duke’s head realize his own genius

Duke: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

Earl: Ditto.

I woulda just booted all their butts to Saugus CA and let em squeeze into one of the Group Homes out there…. buncha freeloading douche-nozzle punks

Panel Four, “Greatness”. This 1998 ’toon foreshadowed the 45th president of the United States.

Once upon a time, we used to have “rent control” here in the big city . . . Then all those mysterious fires started. . . .

The silence is deafening in the third panel.

Duke would’ve made a good German politician eighty years ago.

“Lemme check the insurance policy first…”

Alert! Mood swing!

If I’d never seen this past Doonesbury comics series and only come upon it for the first time today, I might think today’s ‘toon is a parody of the actual criminal activities of The Don and The Don, Jr. (both in costume, obviously).

Didn’t Zeke do that at one point?

Looks like Earl already has a combover.

Well, Zeke once nearly burned down the barn. Might as well finish the job.

This would be the second time it’s been burned down.