today's Doonesbury: B.D. is pissed

[nostamj]

[Az]

1. Wondering if he is pissed about his leg or

his Helmet being gone.

[On the Road]

2. I Think You've Got Tomorrow's Punch Line, Az...

Hadn't thought of that.

[wysimdnwyg]

3. The Tennessean (Nashville) didn't run it

There was a column from the editor complaining about the phrase "son of a bitch". Anyone else's paper refuse to run it today?

[rumguy]

5. you've got to be kidding

[Az]

7. Nope

A couple of papers have been pulling this weeks as too violent. Guess they want the clean war. You know, the one where no one is wounded. Those few brave lads that do die do so instantly after saying a few brave words to their buddies to keep up the struggle. And the people line the streets in gratitude when our lads approach. You know, War.

[SoCalDem]

12. They like "movie wars"...

where they step on a mine, and utter "whew, just grazed me".. or they get wounded, but the friendly wise-cracking doc patches them up and they are back on the line in a day or two..no limps, no scars..

The "myth" of the movie warrior has deluded the masses..

[ParanoidPat]

16. The Santa Cruz Sentinal ran it as is!

:evilgrin: :thumbsup:

[zbdent]

20. Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) used underscores instead of

"ITCH".

Otherwise they ran it.

Also above the cartoon, they had a note saying "To see the unedited strip . . ."

[Mike Daniels]

21. Have they run the rest of the strip this week?

If they pulled just this one I could see the justification of pulling it on the language factor if the comic runs with the rest of the strips.

Yes, comics appeal to all ages but generally even Doonsbury doesn't let loose with the profanity and if you haven't followed the strip all week the statement will appear to be profanity for profanity's sake.

[wysimdnwyg]

23. They ran all of the others this week

They were very clear that the reason they pulled it today was because of the language. The Tennessean is a pretty liberal newspaper, so I would have been very surprised if they had killed all of it.

[Bertha Venation]

4. in the third frame, that doc kinda looks like Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce.

A little.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Hawkeye Pierce, in his fourth war....

No wonder he looks quite a bit older.

[supernova]

10. You're right, Bertha

From the side the Doc looks quite a bit more plump.

The 4th frame line also sounds like something Hawkeye would say. :D

[m-jean03]

11. Recent pic for comparison

'Cause I think the resemblance may be intentional :-)



(No idea who the guy on the right is)

[m-jean03]

13. Another one

(What me, an Alan Alda fan??)

[Bertha Venation]

15. the guy on the right looks a helluva lot like a guy I used to work

in softball with. A LOT. Wow.

Edit: went to the site. Nope. It's not him. But that's weird.

[11 Bravo]

17. That's funny. When I saw the strip I thought the doc

looked just like Mike Farrell's B. J. Honeycutt.

[nostamj]

18. me too! n/t

[m-jean03]

19. Naw, with that nose it has to be Alda

You can't miss that nose! :)



(Don't cha love that grin? )

[dflprincess]

22. I think he looks more like B.J. Hunnicutt

Given Mike Farrell's opposition to the war that would make sense.

[LittleApple81]

6. My local paper ran it. I was surprised. I wonder what the LTTE

about it are going to be.

[Gothmog]

9. This has been a powerful series of strips

I am looking forward to tomorrows's strip.

[proud patriot]

14. this was in my paper today

handles this very serious issue , very well .