Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 25, 2011

Maybe he wants a beard to go along with his mustache.

I’ll check what others have to say later; good night.

Is Mark “going Bible” on Mike and us, after all? “Maybe i’m meant to be with a woman.” Adam has no doubts when he first sees Eve:

“This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfilledThy words, Creator bounteous and benign,Giver of all things fair, but fairest thisOf all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now seeBone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, my selfBefore me. Woman is her name, of manExtracted; for this cause he shall forgoFather and mother, and to his wife adhere;And they shall be one flesh, one heart, one soul.” (Paradise Lost 8.491-99)

Nah, p.d. — he’s just panicking. Nice Milton quote, tho’.

Nothing lucky about Mike’s “guess”. (Look at that smirk.)

Mike without his glasses? Funny, I don’t remember seeing that before.

I actually think Mark looks better with his hair white. Anybody out there agree with me?

Got Angst?

He doesn’t need a beard,he needs a top.

Did he really change his hair to white?

Or did some colorist in South Korea take a smoke break and the strip was removed from his desk for futher processing before he got back?

Well he definitely needs someone other than that fascist lardbutt he was with before.

“Are you high?”Now we know why the late night call.

For a moment, I overlooked Mark’s “with.” No, he’s not going transgender on us.

I’d recommend a bit of shoe polish for Mark’s hair.

How do we know that “Mark used to be hetero before he went Gay”? .He was born gay, as LWP pointed out when the new white-haired Mark first appeared in the strip..Gender ID is a genetic thing. He only assumed he was het because that’s what his culture, including his parents, his sibs (if any), his schoolmates, his hood-mates, etc., told him. Everybody in his life told him, in one way or another, overtly or covertly, explicitly or implicitly, that he was het. He was never het. He only DISCOVERED that he’d been gay all along..When I was a kid I used to visit “Monkey Island” at the local zoo. There you could observe male monkeys having sex with other male monkeys. Gays and lesbians are genetic variants.

@doughfoot, usually people who wear glasses don’t wear them in bed – you don’t need them when you’re sleeping.

TheWildSow,

See this link.

I wouldn’t discount that Mark may have been confused about his orientation all along. Let’s see if he’s still confused when he straightens sobers up.

Talk about confusion, take a look at this only in San Francisco story. The part I’m confused about is; if Haygood and her partner were in a lesbian relationship, did the their relationship transform to a hetero relationship when Haygood’s partner started his transformational process, or was this just a cynical attempt to get around the same sex marriage ban with “If you can’t beat them, then join them”?

The good news is that Ess Eff is a compassionate city and would never leave a fella high and dry. I wouldn’t be suprised if Mr & Mrs Haygood are counting votes in a different city.

Yoo hoo! Palin Drome!.According to THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE, compiled and edited by Sir Paul Harvey (Oxford at the Clarendon Press), John Milton’s PARADISE LOST is a work of fiction, in effect a novel written in verse. It was not intended to replace Scripture..Examples (pages 589-590): .• "Satan is presented, with his angels, lying on the burning lake of hell. He awakens his legions, comforts them, and summons a council. Pandemonium, the palace of Satan is built..• “Satan alights on the outer convex of our universe, the future Paradise of Fools (q.v.). He finds the stairs leading up to Heaven, descends to the Sun, and is directed by Uriel to this Earth, alighting on Mount Niphates.”.There’s A LOT MORE. But this is enough. For now. Unless you want to contest the issue.