Probably the most powerful daily comic strip ever

[sombrefan]

Totally overwhelmed by this. Been reading Doonesbury on and off for years now but this is just haunting.

Not your time, bro! Not today.

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[kuzibah.livejournal.com]

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

I've been reading it this week.

[g-reaper.livejournal.com]

I got a shiver this morning when I got to the last frame of the strip.

I'm not a big fan of Trudeau in general, but he's dead on with this one. The repercussions will carry forward in the comic as long as he continues to publish.

[sternwieser.livejournal.com]

It is. Thanks, Simon.

When I saw the strip this morning...

[wwolfe.livejournal.com]

...I didn't even see the key detail until I looked at it a second time. Wow.

I thought it was interesting that this was also the first time in the strip's history that BD has been shown without his football helmet. That makes sense, given that these events are giving him a depth he's never had before.

I wonder what Brian Dowling, the Yale quarterback in the late Sixties who was the model for BD, thinks about what's happening with his namesake. It must be a little strange for him, I'd think.

[sternwieser.livejournal.com]

The bit about the helmet struck me too. Makes him look very vulnerable.

I was talking to the chimney sweep yesterday. His son is about to be sent to Iraq for the second time. He's told him to "break a leg or something and get out of there. It's not worth dying for."

Thank you for posting that.

[lisaslobe.livejournal.com]

"Haunting" is an apt description. It also took me a couple of read-throughs to see the key detail that was mentioned. Wow. Very poignant.