Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 04, 2012
Transcript:
Mark: "Dear Mark: what's up with the disparities in the strips aging process? For example, Zonk look perpetually youthful, whereas you look like you have one foot in the grave." Zonker: Dude, life isn't supposed to be fair. Mark: This isn't life. This could be fixed!
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
Zonker’s secret: celibacy and weed.
pouncingtiger over 12 years ago
Mark, calm down and talk to GT about it. :-)
basshwy over 12 years ago
But Zonker looks like an aging teenager while Mark has the look of experience and wisdom about him :)
Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago
Such things happen. Like Keith Richards still living.
cdward over 12 years ago
I thought this was a cute fourth wall breaker. I didn’t see any religious/anti-religious OR political rants in it anywhere. So, as a person who went gray and bald before his older brothers (who still aren’t), I appreciate Mark’s point of view.
runar over 12 years ago
“I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ‘what if life were fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?’ Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.”
— Marcus Cole, Babylon 5Space_cat over 12 years ago
Except for wisdom, a few long grey hairs and some creaking joints, I still look the same as I did 32 years ago! My secret?Weed and having no kids or mortgage!
brick10 over 12 years ago
Mark – The Silver Fox!
garyhill over 12 years ago
LIFE ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE FAIR ! ! !In real life there are winners and losers, just like the Superbowl…what if both teams were mandated to have the same score and tie , , , that would be FAIR.-O bummer just can’t figure that out
dook over 12 years ago
How do you know?
Habogee over 12 years ago
Fairness is an abstract concept.
Bucinka over 12 years ago
Of course it could be fixed, Mark. You know where the Just for Men is in the drugstore.
js over 12 years ago
wait until the strip goes HD.Then, you’d really be able to see how Zonker looks
David Shortell over 12 years ago
It wasn’t until after the 1983/1984 hiatus that the strip turned “Gasoline Alley”. The central cast members studied at Walden College from the fall of 1970 through the end of 1982! They finally graduated in the 1983 Broadway musical.
GTphile over 12 years ago
The recent Census has shown that nearly 50% in this country are either below poverty, at poverty are 2x above the poverty level. That isn’t of a 1st world country but closer to a 2nd world.
.Night=GauntThis is alarming! Do you have a link to that report? I would like to compare US with England and other countries.
RinaFarina over 12 years ago
@runar; so? have you also died at the age of 79? er, sorry, age 78?
passinby over 12 years ago
Decades of regular MJ smoking. It keeps the stress at bay.
Aslan Balaur over 12 years ago
I know someone who could BE Zonker. He is a year and a half older than me. We looked about the same age when we met, now, 36 years later, I look older. And I am physically similar to Mark, so maybe some body types just age slower. Damnit.
markpirkl over 12 years ago
definitely the dope . . . and the weed
beprepn over 12 years ago
If I disagree with you, I’m a “denier.”