Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 05, 2012

Yeah, women will relate to them.

Where are the women who are going to say that the last panel is sexist?

Not in this house. That’s the funniest thing this woman has seen all day.

Ummm . . . Jeff . . . no.

Tom Clancy? More like John Ringo – even fans of his sci-fi are astounded and offended by how offensively misogynistic his “thrillers” get. And his sci-fi isn’t exactly politically correct.

Lifted from the covers of True and Argosy magazines.

Frederick Brown anticipated Jeff in “What Mad Universe?”

Is over-the-top satirical sexism excused because it reminds us that sexism is yet another tool of the patriarchy to keep the sisterhood in its place?

So the sound of the machine gun is BUDDA. Hmmm hey it’s a political cartoon so sue me if I be a killjoy And say that the editors shoulda caught that. Plenty of other “noise” effects out there even if it needs an “H” to be spelled as most popularly known.

It’s simple, you put the last frame on the cover, and call it a “Romance Novel” Hey, it was all fiction anyway!

roctor: “Lifted from the covers of True and Argosy magazines”

-and from the cover of Conan (the barbarian, not the TV host) comic books

It’s a very funny strip.

Yeah, buddy…

Or perhaps the none too subtle irony of sexism being oppressive whether you are wearing bits of revealing silk or a tent?

Whatever. Like there never are ever anywhere in the world women who would like to dress like that but can’t because the GIs haven’t showed up yet…when our services leave Afghanistan somebody’s God only knows what will happen to women who got an education…this is ‘way better than clancy…Clancy’s a suckup to tough guys,or…a hero-worshipper. And yet he does a good job, EXCEPT when there’s any social thinking going on. He’s really good on equipment and guys who are also equipment: automatons. He’s NOT good on the WHY. Think: if it weren’t for women, guys, money would have NO value.

I like that Razihl is low-tech. Horse, hand-held weapons. Been there, done some of that. American Indian and cowbody. What a blast it must have been to ride horses when halfgasanistan went down…

I’m just amazed at how far the tech has come since ‘back in the day’…and I survived and adapted to women’s freedom, but even since…more than once… i have had to stand up and tell a bully to back off. I think there was more ‘mixing and sharing’ among men and women before women set themselves apart…

Maybe now that the generation of revolutionary women is getting old…I sense that kids today are as easy…easier with each other than our fathers and mothers were. And back off, sisters, I have more units of ‘womens’ studies’ than you do, and more friends from the original movement than YOU do. I loved you ALL that much, and many of you returned the sentiment…and still do. Thank you very much…

DT Pi, hope all is well.

Dontcha mean cupcakes, Susan?

That’s not women, Jeff. That’s narcissistic self-abuse. Some of your readers do the same thing with Becca.

To darth geekboy: I was thinking “Archer.”

Love all the people here complaining about sexism, at the same time romance novels continue to fly off the shelves and make their authors obscenely wealthy. Now queue righteous people telling everyone that THEY never buy romance novels, as if that matters when the authors are still getting obscenely wealthy…

What good are virgins once you’re dead? Women love “bodice rippers” and muscles selling “couldn’t believe it’s not butter”, So, what’s NOT to suggest Jeff “salt” the story with spice??

“I think that a woman (Becca, maybe?) should create a female “Red Rascal” (the “Violet Vixen?).I bet it would sell like hotcakes.”

Maybe, but probably still mostly to men. Who do you think the primary market for the “Tomb Raider” games was? It’s the genre that’s most important, not the gender of the protagonist.

To turn THIS scenario into a “Bodice Ripper”, one of the women at the Rascal’s feet would have to be of central importance, the only one who REALLY understands Sorkh Razil, and the other three could be safely killed off (or otherwise disposed of) before the final chapter.

Is Jeff rewriting the same book that he just did a promo tour to support? The one he signed mumbleteen copies of to self-styled “superheroes” wearing their pajamas in public? Is this his strategy? Selling multiple copies of mostly-the-same-only-slightly-different books to a few completists? Or will the update only be pushed out to those who bought the Kindle/Nook versions?

DTΠ I hope you are well. Come back soon

I’ve been wondering about DT π also. Here’s a get-well-soon shout-out, if needed.

Happy Super Bowl, everyone. I’ll watch it for the commercials and hope they aren’t too loud and gross.

^ Kickoff is 6:29 PM, Eastern (US) Standard Time (11:29 PM GMT). The Pregame show started two weeks ago.

And then beheaded.

So no one noticed Jeff’s Red Rascal climbed and fought barefooted?

Congrats to Big Blue, they’re a gritty stick with it, 4th quarter team.

Some of the Super Bowl commercials looked like they were copped from a Red Rascal novel.

The comments are funnier than that very funny last panel:)

So in the first panel he, barefooted, climbs an overhanging cliff, armed with a sword, and flings the sentry off. In the the third and fourth panel he’s firing the magically acquired machine pistols. In the final panel he has become the dude whose photoshopping skills far exceed mine.

One word – teenager

I’d like to see how that is done in prose.