Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 02, 2011

Is Petraeus Red Rascal’s love interest?

You would say that if Becca burped.

I’m with Baslim on this one. Redhead, literate, glasses, and I LOVE how she says “lathered haunches” …

[leaves to take a cold shower]

Jeff, the time to get out of fantasy land was approximately 3 seconds ago.

@Richard S. RussellI would have thought that NASCAR and romance would have almost been mutually exclusive :)

The question is if Becca makes an even more obvious advance, will Jeff know what to do?

A Brit Lit professor told me I would end up writing for Hallmark or Harlequin. Wish I had listened to him.

I’m a little surprised that the deep analysis of this comment section hasn’t included anything about the naming of Rascal’s horse. Is Trudeau making fun of a distinguished soldier?

Becca is definitely the best character to come about in years! I hope GT keeps her as a regular.

A pity she wasn’t introduced before Chaney’s book came out. I would have LOVED to see how she handled him!

Looks like Jeff didn’t realize which market the Red Rascal was being pitched to! Given his “vision” of the Red Rascal, it will be interesting to see how he copes with the (very slowly) dawning realization that he is now a romance novelist.

Have I come too late, or has nobody mentioned or enjoyed Becca’s resemblance to Rebekah Brooks?

Quite the outfit Becca has on. Size 34D on one side and 34A on the other. Jeff is doing really good at not having a clue about what is going on.

Becca is a pro. Other than work, the book, there is no time for Jeff in Becca’s world. Becca also is looking for the guy with the seven figure water front!!

Lathered haunches?

I’m thinking naughty things now.

I don’t think he’s gay. When he was in President for Life whats-his-name’s palace, he had to keep turning down offers of “dancing boys” offered by the Prez.

That’s a fashion forward dress she has on. And yes, she does look a little lopsided in top part.

Petraeus may not be the Rascal’s love interest, but Becca sure seems to have the hots for him.

sandfan – there was a discussion about the horse’s name a while back. I think the choice is all about Jeff’s view of himself, not GB’s view of Petraeus.

And yes, Chconfer – all this talk about Becca falling for Jeff baffles me. Jeff’s a delusional idiot. Any interest Becca has in him is purely professional. The fact that she’s so effusive just shows that she’s good at her job.

A Heinlein fan?

definitely woman>boy converso

Jeff is not in the least bit gay. He is perhaps in love with himself.

dylan – I wish we were kicking this around in person, because I’d love to strike a wager about this. I’m equally as confident that this “romance” doesn’t exist and won’t go anywhere, except perhaps in Jeff’s imagination.

I think the point is that he sees his book as an Adventure/Thriller, and she sees it as a Bodice Ripper.I foresee conflict.(Thank you spellchecker).

It is with a small flush of prognosticatory pride that I point out that I predicted Jeff’s future as a romance novelist three days ago. And yes, I made up the word prognosticatory.

GT created Drew as the perfect female but it is for Becca that so many of the male reader (and some female) have developed a crush.

Bones had an episode where Brennan was oblivious to the romance interest in her books. I won’t give away how it was resolved.

Yeah, but if he’s helplessly in love with Becca, will he even notice them?

“Lathered haunches”? Did Becca work for Bulwer-Lytton, before Random House?

Thought I’d include a “bad writing” link, in case anyone needs a tip.

@DeeBeeS – Re:“A pity she wasn’t introduced before Chaney’s book came out. I would have LOVED to see how she handled him!”

I love how you spelled Cheney’s name, like Lon Chaney… didn’’t he play monster types…?

One other thing, just a reminder that it’s cool to be safe and sensible on this holiday weekend. Burning Man-Si, burned by the MAN-NO!

Thank-you.

Burma-Shave on a horse’s haunches- now there is a set of signs!

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