Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 16, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  7 months ago

    Sad. Rick was a functional single guy for a long time.

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    snsurone76  7 months ago

    Betcha when Joanie gets home she’ll find that Jeff has flown the coop. And good riddance!

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    robertthomasson Premium Member 7 months ago

    That might be perception as reality, Rick might be doing just fine, just not the way Joanie would do it.

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    Troglodyte  7 months ago

    I’ve heard of marriages falling apart – but this is the first one where falling apart helps it stay together!

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    Redd Panda  7 months ago

    Rick probably needs her to open jars and kill spiders.

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    Darsan54 Premium Member 7 months ago

    Sounds like Rick has a lotta problems and Joanie has a need to be the one to solve them. Neither are really good parents.

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    exness Premium Member 7 months ago

    I would love to visit my daughter, grand and great grand kids in another state, but it gets harder to leave husband with dementia home alone.

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    My late husband and I hated being apart from each other.

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    Blueskyfox  7 months ago

    It is rather sad that Joanie would have probably preferred dropping in on her ex-son-in-law than attend her daughter’s wedding. But duty called…

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    Will_Scarlet  7 months ago

    And yet she’s the mother of another of the strip’s most hateful characters.

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    FireAnt_Hater  7 months ago

    Reminds me of some movie where Elizabeth Taylor went back to her husband (Richard Burton) because her lover would survive without her but her husband wouldn’t…

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    fourteenpeeves  7 months ago

    Rick’s doing fine on his TV dinners and Dr.Pepper diet….

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