Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 15, 2024

Does this mean they are not legally married?

Are they in Seattle? That looks like the Space Needle in the background of #4.

Is this what LOVE is?

Those two , beat three of a kind for sure : )

Jake and J.J. are perfect for each other, because nobody else would have either of them.

I thought the requirement was for two ADULT witnesses.

Now tell Alex that you abandoned the family and didn’t end up raising her, Joanie.

By the way, in the original strip it’s implied that Joanie had more than one kid, as her husband Clyde refers to their “kids”. But we never heard about the other ones and I guess it was decided that JJ was an only child.

Grams, has Mom ever been able to rely on your unqualified love?

Joanie, does your behaviour help Alex in any way? You walked out of JJ’s childhood, now you’re walking out of her wedding and taking her daughter with you.

Not in our lifetime.

We found out a week later that the Minister had not signed the license. We had been living in sin for 7 days without knowing it. 37 years later it doesn’t seem to have been that big a deal.

It’s okay, Alex is too young to legally witness anything anyway.

Actually she WAS when she was first introduced to the strip. But at some point Trudeau decided to turn her around and make her irredeemably horrible.

Grams wouldn’t remember as she ran out on her when J.J. was a little girl.

Didn’t Joanie abandon JJ and her husband when she first showed up at Walden in the beginning? She probably never knew if JJ was ever normal.I like Joanie as a character and what she has done with her life, but she has spawned two of the more dislikable entitled characters: JJ and Jeff.

For her time … for her time.

I hope JJ and Zeke are fast swimmers.

it’s kind of hard for ‘mom’ to remember since she left when jj was a little girl.