Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 12, 2024

“Alice’s Gourmet? Send me an order of rabbit hole.”

Easy come, easy go…

Only difference is—instead of losing her head, JJ will lose her mind when she finds out there’s no grant. Or that her worthless BF spent it all on himself! Or she’s hit with a lawsuit for back child support! Or…

By the looks of things, she’s already lowered herself to his level!!!!

Can’t remember how this finishes… but liked the idea of it turning out the award is in the form of a donation to the charity of your choice

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know [them] by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against [them].”

Whoop it up, JJ. Youth’s a stuff will not endure…..

Turns out you can’t get anything you want at Alice’s Gourmet.

She won’t be getting any cake, somebody else can eat that

For Marie Antoinette fans, may I recommend the classic manga series The Rose of Versailles, at last available in English translation in hardback.

I preferred Alice’s Restaurant.

Money makes you more of who you are

And I guess the grant money didn’t last long.

Well, there goes your grant.

“That will be an 8 cents per seed surcharge. " Note: An average kiwi has ~ 500-2000 seeds.

Yep, JJ is finding for a fall.

I still can’t fathom why Trudeau decided to totally change JJ’s character and make her so irredeemably horrible.

They sent the wrong kind of mustard.20 lashes with a wet paintbrush

Gotta be a hook comin’ … like this cheque was a gag?

rapid redistribution of wealth

They should rename the award if the people they give it to are idiots.

So much hostility toward people who literally do not exist. Weird…

She better spend it all before Zeke gets his hands on it!

Wait a minute – are you that nutjob who wore a pumpkin on her head while singing “Papa Don’t Preach?” some years back?

I’m thinking the grant money ain’t gonna make it there…

Any guillotines nearby?

Ah yes, and so the adventures of the 2 least likable characters on Doonesbury continue, kinda painful to watch. Glad I didn’t catch this thread the 1st time around 24 years ago.

I’m guessing this won’t end well…

So … how long before she goes broke?

The money will be gone within the month.

Nothing for Zeke? Not even a case of imported beer?

In the south they have a racial saying for the way she’s behaving. They call it acting N rich.

Because Sundays are reserved for new stuff, we likely won’t see here the identity of the mysterious benefactor who nominated JJ for the grant. Try July 08, 2001.

(We don’t suppose that the grant has anything to do with MacArthur, Uncle Duke’s assistant in American Samoa?)

Sometimes it’s easier to drop a customer than cater to them.

Is the money actually in her bank account yet??