Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 16, 2024

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

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

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

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

Rick probably needs her to open jars and kill spiders.

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

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.

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

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…

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

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…

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