Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 30, 2012

A fire permit?!?

When worlds collide?

Burning Man meets Mendelssohn.

I agree, Elope

Has Leo actually said “Yes” yet?

Leo is going to be seriously tested by this wedding crap.

“Went over”? JJ is in New York and Mike is in Seattle, no?

She texted him the question when she was stuck in a blizzard with Gran.

J.J., it’s Justice of the PEACE, not PIECE.

Why marry?

Alex, two words: “common law.”

JJ also lives in the Seattle area; so yes, “went over” is correct.

The engagement happened.

I’m not sure you’ve been reading at all. Leo is one of the more perceptive characters and has passed his interview with his future mother in law.

Ok, here’s a partial list

1. Fire permit.2. Alert local HASMAT team.3. Wear camo and use only full metal jacket ammo! 4. Use real, sharpened bamboo for the Punji stakes!

more to come…

Milk is not free either. Any farm-lovers out there?

fiancee is the girl, the guy fiance

To Swimswithsharks: I think it was "grandmother-in-law.

I hope to get married in a church wedding someday. Although, one of my cousins were married on a beach. They know have two beautiful girls.

Hey lawyers have got to eat too! Well honestly most of us hate domestic cases with a passion! Give me a good fight with an insurance company or prosecutor any day. SO much less hate…

TOGGLE!

Since you have upper-middle class and trailer-park families, they should meet in Vegas and do a wacky Elvis-themed chapel with reception at some place like The Bellagio.

“Toggle” is …… drum roll….. Leo.

“Until mood do us part” is the new paradigm, with over 50% of marriages failing, and serial spouses becoming more norm. Leo and Alex have already survived more stress than would separate the “average American couple”, so they should be good. It’s about giving, not taking, to survive, so kinda’ “unAmerican” any more, right?

haha…Oh, that’s why :)

@basshwy“Why Marry?”It’s in our genetics. For girls, (I speak from a houseful of sisters and cousin-ettes,) it’s ‘the occasion’. Pomp and circumstance, showing all and sundry that she’s been ‘taken’.. For boys; It’s the emotion of coming home with a dead deeracross one’s shoulders, never to be in the hunt again.

J.J. is a performance artist, so she will also need lots of chocolate sauce.

“The kid who got blown up in Iraq”. That is a sensitive way of describing him.

Is it just me or does the art look a little different? Maybe I’m just going crazy.

Oh, come on who doesn’t want to see a full on wedding bash that, knowing Alex, will also be environmentally friendly with recycled wedding gown from her Mum and socially responsible wedding loot?

And yet, Mom and Daughter are sooooo alike. (Drama!)

Ssssh everybody! I want to hear about JJ’s plans for the bachelorette party.

Still the best comic around.

I believe this strip takes place entirely in the Seattle area. Mike asked Kim if Alex was up, which means Alex is staying with Mike and Kim. Kim said Alex went to see J.J., which means J.J. lives close to them.

“I believe this strip takes place entirely in the Seattle area.”

leftwing is using the same detective techniques as Jerry Orbach, probably lives in the same precinct.

I think JJ & Zeke should go to Burning Man.

Mike and Kim live in Seattle, Alex is in school at MIT or has just graduated (?), and JJ is in NYC, iirc. Kim is on a laptop, so could be communicating with Alex on her FB page or IM or whatever… of course I could be completely wrong.

According to Doonesbury.com, both Mike and JJ live in Seattle.