Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 07, 2012

Is he asking her out?

Just wait until Jeff has to pay taxes on his new country estate.

Becca’s body language indicates that she isn’t very impressed by Jeff’s decision making skills.

Now that is a pickup line!

He might take Trff Bzklmfrpz in as a lodger.

I’ve always read the exploits of Sorkh Razil as the fevered patriotism of a paintballer.

Come to think of it, one of Saddam Hussein’s reported exploits sounds like Sorkh Razil.

An assassin tried to kill Saddam at close range but the rifle jammed. Seizing the rifle, Saddam said, “This is how you release the trigger lock, you idiot!” and shot the assassin.

I think this is a fairy tale, inside a fairy tale. At least D’s checks don’t bounce!!Does Becca have other interests?? Don’t love for money.

Apparently some people didn’t understand the comparison I was making yesterday between Jeff’s fictional and Trudeau’s nonfictional success. Some people aren’t so Swift.

Jeff is begining to sound like Mrs Winchester..\\//_

Becca could make anybody rich. As long as it’s not a coffee table book… about coffee tables.

That was Osama bin Laden. Maybe he’d been better off staying in the caves. Moving into town didn’t work out too well for him.

If Jeff is going the Full Saddam, pretty soon we’ll see him interviewing doubles.

Indoor paintball course. Always thought it would be fun to put one in under a zip line. Give you something different to shoot at and add a whole new element for the people on the line.

I missed the DTpi commendation yesterday . . . but I was thinking . . . he came out of nowhere, sometime last July, and seemed to ‘take over’ this forum. I remember being a bit perturbed by his prolific and verbose commentary, thinking “who does this guy think he is?” lol.But he so obviously loved this strip, and loved reading and responding to the rest of us, that he became one of the reasons to look forward to stopping by here, to see “what does DT think of today’s strip?”When he suddenly disappeared I saw the empty space that he once occupied.

No, Sadam did not live in caves. You have your villains mixed up. That was O. Ben Ladin. Sadam just hid in one. He preferred living in outrageous palaces.

C’mon Susan. He had numerous palaces.

Great strip. Great comments. I have nothing to add.

When has Jeff ever made a decision?

A decision implies you’ve made a judgment about real circumstances. Jeff merely chooses between fantasies. His choices have no serious consequences; we know he can always live with the results.

There’s no difference between Jeff’s fictional fame and Duke’s fictional infamy; Fame and infamy are equally entertaining in the comic world, where any real decision is made solely by GBT.

whatever happened to all the foreshadowing of a Jeff/Melissa mash-up?

Where does one barrel house in Riverside, Cat Man? If you are going to barrel house, you go up to Frisco or you come out to the coolest city in the world- Brooklyn.

This belongs in yhesterday really, but just to note that the ‘irony font’ apparently now exists – reverse italic. see http://glennmcanally.com/sarcastic/