Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 29, 2023

Maybe Ray should try online dating.

Good luck, Ray. You’re a good guy, you deserve happiness.

Good on you, Ray. It’s been quite a journey but congratulations to you and all others who’ve managed to get over those mountains.

The other line he would use was “I don’t care what everybody else says about you, I think you’re attractive.”

I wouldn’t want to date any woman who would fall for that line of BS.

Ray deserves happiness.

Q: And you are?

A: Married to Sally.

Always refreshing when Trudeau takes the very rare break from the monotonous Trump bashing.

She isn’t checking her phone, so that’s a good start

You know, that really could work, definitely worth a try.

i thought she would turn out to be his daughter.

Panel 9-She answers,“Dumbfounded”,

At least her initial response wasn’t to tell him to get lost, or call for help. Could be worse …

I guess a simple “Excuse me, Hello.” is not going to get it when you have a lot of stuff to present and only one shot to get it all in there.

I wonder if she has the same name as the young woman Jeremy tried to pick up in yesterday’s “Zits”: “Ha! Ha! As if.”

I am reminded of a strip long ago in the late Jeff McNally’s Shoe; the title character, at a bar, tells a young thing “You know, you look just like my sixth wife.” “Sixth?? How many wives have you had?” (with a leer) “Five.”

He got this far so keep going. (Though there does appear to be a generation gap.)

Sometimes “laying all your cards on the table” is best reserved for poker.

On an episode of Seinfeld, George walked up to a gorgeous woman with the line “I’m George. I’m unemployed and I live with my parents.”

She pushed a stool out for him to sit.

I like her glasses.

Is Ray looking for a girlfriend or a daughter?

Where is Clyde?

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“Body-slammed by your ‘baggage’.”

Another old joke about meeting (whether cute or not!): At a party, a woman goes up to a man and tells him, “You look like my first husband.” “How many times have you been married?” “None—SO FAR.”

At least there isn’t any anti-Trump stuff today.

There is no Trump today…

Ooookay. That’s so sad in so many ways.

I originally put this in reply to one of the at least three posters who wrote almost identical comments about being glad that this wasn’t an anti-Trump cartoon today, as if all of the rest of Trudeau’s new Sunday strips were on that topic. Since none of this was true, and I doubt the posters even followed Doonesbury enough to know that, I didn’t want to encourage a member of a paid (and probably foreign) troll farm by replying to their thread so I’m putting my original response here instead:There have been at least three comments like this today although another poster went through the last few Sundays of strips to point out that Trudeau covered lots of different topics, none of which were focused on Trump. I’m wondering whether a right wing list (or possibly a foreign site) directed commentators here today to make your particular comment, but without anybody actually reading the last month’s strips…

What did I come into this room for?

At least he has a good line of charm.

She looks 30 years younger than him.

Kind of like reading the warning label before buying a product.