Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 26, 2015
Transcript:
Terrorist: Candy crush! Sweet! Red Rascal: Aieee! Terrorist: Uh-oh. [Sorkh Razil is creating havoc in Raqqa.] Red Rascal: Die, ISIS scum! Terrorist: Hey... wait! I know you! Red Rascal: So? Everyone knows me, fool! I'm the Red Rascal! Terrorist: No, you're not-- you're Jeff! Jeff Redfern! Red Rascal: What? Terrorist: It's me, dude! Leo Whitman! We were dormmates at Walden! Before I became radicalized! And we pledged DKE together! We're brothers for life! So you can't, like, kill me! Rick: Another dead end? Jeff: I gotta start whiteboarding my story arcs.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
Rick’s relationship with Jeff is the definition of SCHADENFREUDE.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
I hear ya, Jeff. I hate when that happens.
pbarnrob over 9 years ago
Da-esh/ISIS/ISIL; all a shadow-show to provoke Yanks to come mix it up.Baseball/Little League taunts the other side too.What ELSE is going on in the world that we SHOULD be paying some attention to? Hmmm?
mr.monkeyshines over 9 years ago
leo whitman..hee.
SKJAM! Premium Member over 9 years ago
“As a frat brother, I can’t kill you…but hazing is A-OK!”
moepatches2000 over 9 years ago
Not a movie most would remember
Bikebrains over 9 years ago
What is the problem with the arc? It starts with a loser who is so stupid that he doesn’t even know that he is stupid, he then attends a Fourth Tier school like Walden, he racks up massive student loan debt, he can’t find any job, even Chinamart won’t hire him, he blames society for his problems,yada yada yada and he joins ISIS. The story arc is a spin of Adam Yahiye Gadahn.
38lowell over 9 years ago
wHY DKE?
cripplious over 9 years ago
After all gt said he couldn’t find anything to mock about a centrist like Obama
moremi over 9 years ago
I find this funny, because I have known some DKEs . . .
Godfreydaniel over 9 years ago
Maybe the Red Rascal could make some kind of deal with Red Wrigglers (you know, the Cadillac of worms!)
montessoriteacher over 9 years ago
Quite a segway and a relief to know that he was able to snap out of it back and back to reality, even though his story line went nowhere. It happens. Don’t cast aspersions on my asparagus, as Louie Gohmert said. I need to embroider that one and hang it on the wall. It would be comical if it weren’t for the fact that Louie Gohmert is an actual congressman.
Alabama Al over 9 years ago
No problem, Jeff. Just have the Red Rascal hesitate for a moment, then quickly cut his throat. Then have RR look down and quietly say, " You actually took that [expletive] seriously?"
George Alexander over 9 years ago
@doublejake: You got it wrong. The classic enmity is Ohio State vs. U of M, not Ohio State vs Michigan State.Speaking more generally, this strip is a classic. Forget about any hidden meanings or messages; it’s just funny.
kaffekup over 9 years ago
Nothing personal, mt; everyone does this. Change of topics, segue. Two-wheeled motor scooter, Segway.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 9 years ago
Actually, this situation gives Jeff more internal conflict to work through than if the bad guys had always been bad guys and would remain bad guys to the day he killed them..It includes the dangers of obsessing on irrational concepts to the exclusion of humanity. The possibility of counter brainwashing and co-brainwashing is implied.Loyalty to lesser institutions is brought in.
It implies the dangers of sitting on the side lines as the extremists expand, versus the dangers of getting drawn in to become the common target of the assorted extremist factions rather than letting them kill each other as we frack for our own energy supplies.It touches on the dangers of institutions of higher learning not really being institutions of higher learning. Walden has yielded some life drop outs, some hack writers, some terrorist converts, some entrepreneurial agriculturists.
nathanbtlr over 9 years ago
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ComicDetectiveDA over 9 years ago
@Alabama_AI: Perfect! Hahaha!