Doonesbury is no Comic

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Dadmanly (a soldier in Iraq) isn’t too happy with Doonesbury (an American comic strip) lately. This entry also gets us 1st hand accounts of the uparmoring of vehicles in Iraq

Okay, I’ll bite.

Has Garry Trudeau even read a military web log? I’m only one, and I haven’t read all the others, but I have seen quite a few. They are all very different, but not one of them reads like the one Trudeau dreamed up for his Doonesbury cutouts.

Does he have any idea what the military is like? Does he know anyone in the military? I’d be very surprised if his “research” for this latest series went farther than the Daily Kos or Democratic Underground.

Hillbilly armor humvees. Please, can somebody dream up any new strawmen for Garry? We’re National Guard, and half of our vehicles were up-armored with factory grade steel before they left Kuwait; the rest were line hauled. Since we’ve been here, we use the light skin for around the FOB, but even those, as many as we want can get up-armored. We just won’t bother with some of them as they will be shipped back home, and other than for convoys the up-armored are difficult, costly to maintain, and more prone to accident. (Everything is a trade-off my friend, even body armor presents risk as well as protection.)

And other supply and equipment? My word, we waste more than armies usually have. Our soldiers have been the best equipped, trained, supported, and supplied soldiers in history. Our guys are complaining about a lot of things, as they always will, but they aren’t complaining about their Rapid Fielding Initiative (RFI) goodies or their advanced weapons and equipment. And we’re National Guard.

I am sure Garry thinks he’s very clever, but it should occur to him that to properly satirize, lampoon, or profile critically in caricature, your result needs to remotely resemble what you lampoon. And it wouldn’t hurt for you to have some positive goal in mind, either. Trudeau fails on both counts.

I remember enjoying Doonesbury a very long time ago. But then, I didn’t used to have much respect for the military either, until I devoted 20 years and 18 months away from my wife and children in service to our country.

It really is sad that Trudeau can’t find any true and realistic stories of soldiers that he wants to tell. But that’s okay, because MILBLOGS will do it for him.
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A hundred of so small islands are off Stony Creek, Connecticut. Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley owned one. Back in the early 1990s, they earned the dislike of locals by calling the Coast Guard when small boats got within a few hundred feet of their property. That is against all Connecticut swamp yankee tradition.

When Gary was at Yale and just making a name for himself, reporters at the New Haven Register were disgusted with the guy. They would call for an interview, doing him a favor really, and he treated them like dirt. None of them were out to do a hit piece on him. He was the local kid making good and they wanted to give him free PR.

Yale at that time was saturated by the SDS, sympathizers of the Panthers who murdered Alex Rackley and various other factions of the New Left. In other words, the military was despised. Gary Trudeau is still the elitist snob out to enlighten the uneducated slobs who run and defend this country he was 35 years ago.
 
Doonebury is a big pile of cr ap. Still can’t understand while he’s still in business.
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Matt25:
You can judge for yourself at doonesbury.msn.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
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There was an awesome comic strip called “Bloom County” back in the eighties. This strip was very funny and also very balanced politically. I believe Opus the Penguin and Milo and the rest of the gang were far more popular than anything Doonesbury ever wrote. At one time Doonesbury went out of his way to slam the creator of “Bloom CountY”.

I share this point out what an elitist Gary Trudeau is. He is entitled to his opinion, I am entitled to ignore him.
 
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Jeffrey:
Doonebury is a big pile of cr ap. Still can’t understand while he’s still in business.
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because leftwingers exist.
 
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Cubsfan:
There was an awesome comic strip called “Bloom County” back in the eighties. This strip was very funny and also very balanced politically. I believe Opus the Penguin and Milo and the rest of the gang were far more popular than anything Doonesbury ever wrote. At one time Doonesbury went out of his way to slam the creator of “Bloom CountY”.

I share this point out what an elitist Gary Trudeau is. He is entitled to his opinion, I am entitled to ignore him.
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I LOVED Bloom County! You’re right: it was much more about mocking pop culture generally & developing all the quirky little characters than political satire. I always thought of Doonesbury as some running “in joke” for aging baby boomers and I never thought it was funny at all. I also recall something about Garry Trudeau’s comments about Bloom County, & talk about petty professional jealousy…
 
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Jeffrey:
Still can’t understand while he’s still in business.
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Because he’s funny and more often than not, right on point.

Remember that it’s a comic strip. You don’t have to like it any more than you have to like Hagar The Horrible or Mary Worth.
 
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Richardols:
Remember that it’s a comic strip. You don’t have to like it any more than you have to like Hagar The Horrible or Mary Worth.
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Heh heh, Hagar the Horrible… very aptly named comic 😃 .

I agree with the title of this thread, “Doonesbury is no Comic” - I’ve always found it kind of tedious and boring. Give me Dick Tracy over this guy any day.
 
Thats just it…he’s usually delusional…not funny…and totally off the mark.
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Richardols:
Because he’s funny and more often than not, right on point.
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Doonesbury in the traditional sense, is a satirical comic on US politics and culture.-Though I personally don’t care for the Artist’s style, and “too hard to extract the punchline” writing. (I always pass over it in the comics section). But according to (acclaimed comic, professor/author) Scott McCloud’s definition of comics it is a comic.-But “Bizarro” by Dan Pirraro, Now that’s a comic!!
 
Doonesbury in the traditional sense, is a satirical comic on US politics and culture.-Though I personally don’t care for the Artist’s style, and “too hard to extract the punchline” writing. (I always pass over it in the comics section). But according to (acclaimed comic, professor/author) Scott McCloud’s definition of comics it is a comic.-But “Bizarro” by Dan Pirraro, Now that’s a comic!!
 
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