Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 02, 2012

GT is taking the week off, and so am I.

See you guys next Sunday!

Um, what is the “sad day”?

@Bill WeinbergThe “sad day” is the funeral of Mike’s mother. This week is a re-run of strips that ran immediately after the funeral.

So why does Mike think, “Uh-oh”? Is he seeing into the future? Is he prescient? What has him worried? Does he think Alex will try to manipulate or somehow fool Leo into marriage?

Why wouldn’t Mike be worried about Leo instead? Leo seems too nice and emotionally steady to hurt Alex. She’s certainly a “catch”, yes, but also an emotional pendulum. Seems Alex is the one who would “hook” Leo (not intentionally) then react and dump him (again not with intent to hurt). Poor Leo has absorbed too much damage already by war.

A week of Doonesbury reruns – yuck.

I’ll be out of the country anyway – no time for the comics for the next two weeks.

An Alex and Leo rerun is still better than a whole lot of other strips new stuff.

Women do the picking. Yup. Proof? you see what it says below the place for comments? SUBMIT.

One of the first times that I have ever found a “Comments” page to be useful, in any setting: I could not understand the “sad day” reference and the mourning attire until you all explained it to me. …I have a tenuous hold on optimism, but this sort of thing reinforces it, for 2012.

This strip was originally run on January 17, 2011.

Oh thank heaven. I was afraid Joanie had died and I missed one.