DOONESBURY - a poll to end all polls

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I miss the days of Rufus, Ellie and Howard.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Uncle Duke 6
Zonker Harris 3
Phred 2
Alex Doonesbury 2
B.D. 2
Honey Huan 2
Elias - BD's counselor 2
Clyde Slade 1
Mr. Butts. 1
Virginia "Ginny" Slade 1
Mike Doonesbury 1
Mark Slackmeyer 1
Marcia 0
General Havoc0
Jim Andrews 0
Nicole 0
Bernie 0
Alice P. Schwarzman and Elmont 0
Sid Kibbitz 0
Ellie and Howard - kids of Walden daycare 0
Rufus (a.k.a. Thor) 0
Ray Hightower 0
The Widow Doonesbury 0
Uncle Henry 0
Benjamin (a.k.a. Sal Putrid) Doonesbury 0
Didi. 0
Mini-D 0
Andy Lippincott 0
Rick Redfern 0
J.J. Caucus 0
Zeke Brenner 0
Kim Rosenthal 0
Jimmy Thudpucker 0
Barbara Ann Boopstein (Boopsie) 0
Zipper Harris 0
Roland Burton Hedley, III 0
Jeff Redfern 0
Earl - Duke's illegitimate son 0
Lacey Davenport 0
Phil Slackmeyer 0
Chase Talbott III 0
Ron Headrest 0
Rev. Scott Sloan 0
Donald Trump 0
Joanie Caucus 0


milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

These days it's all about BD, Elias, and the rest of the therapy group.

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

what's with the joint categories?

gabbneb, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Clyde

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Is Didi the adopted infant who sings along with TV commercials? If not who is she? And what's the name of that kid?

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

How awesome would a 'Complete Doonesbury' set be? I've read everything up through the late '70s, but there are big chunks of the '80s-'00s I've missed completely or only read through theme collections (like the Duke collection that came with an action figure!)

milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha I remember that that was awesome

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

i want like 5 votes

gabbneb, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm torn between Alice & Elmont and Rufus.

milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Aren't the smaller books basically an uninterrupted year's worth of strips?

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

where is Mac? Dr. Whoopee?

gabbneb, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

The adopted infant grows up to be Mike's wife Kim.

The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! Is that speculation or a joke or what?

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

no its true!

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

totally true - she was the last baby out of Vietnam

milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. Learn something new every day.

So who's Didi, then?

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

From Wikipedia - Didi Robins - One of the members at the Walden Commune. Her hair is so long she resembled Cousin Itt from the Addams Family. She helped found a lesbian magazine, but is straight. She was also J.J.'s art assistant when she lived in New York in the 80s.

The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

totally true - she was the last baby out of Vietnam

Yup. She also appeared a few times in the 80s strips as a kid achieving well in elementary school/middle school and thus the focus of attention over model-minority claims (which Trudeau wanted to debunk via the fact that she was, after all, being raised by adoptive parents).

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I had a working scanner, I'd scan in the series when Roland comes to Walden and the crew convinces him it's still the summer of love. "Peyote and clam dip!"

milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

She was also J.J.'s art assistant when she lived in New York in the 80s.

wait, waht? did she actually appear, er, on-panel?

gabbneb, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Zonker, but now that I think about it, I should've voted for Zeke.

The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hope Zipper gets a couple of votes

milo z, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, thanks. Some of these characters that haven't appeared for decades are not so easy to recall.

I've occasionally wondered what Mike's brother was up to.

Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

The Elias/B.D. stuff is so good these days that I'm voting Elias.

Rock Hardy, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

PHRED PHOREVER
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Phred.jpg

Dimension 5ive, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm all about some Honey

Morley Timmons, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Puddle-era Zonker - HEEEEE-WACK!

"I just get high on life ... and America!"

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

I love the judge's response to the DA after he dismisses that case - "you HAD him, son, you HAD him."

milo z, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Phred, but honestly, B.D. has really come a long way for me.

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

i rly only read for the mike/kim/alex storyline...

Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

Has there ever been a good Jimmy Thudpucker strip?

Dan I., Friday, 22 June 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

The one where Jimmy Carter was getting him to write a campaign song? I admit it's a reach.

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 22 June 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Dylan/Thudpucker ones were not bad. Though I think that's the same one PP might be talking about.

How awesome would a 'Complete Doonesbury' set be?

I dunno, come to my house and see.

Casuistry, Friday, 22 June 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

i was trying to decide between rick and bernie

gabbneb, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

Duke???!? There are six of you who are out of your freaking minds.

Uh, like Duke, I guess.

Oilyrags, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone else think honey is marcie from peanuts all grown up?

J.D., Monday, 25 June 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hair-wise, yes. Lesbian-wise, no.

Casuistry, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

Good to see the Phred love though.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

how did i not see this?? phred all the way

gff, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

best terrorist ever

gff, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Search: Duke, the late Phil Slackmeyer, Lacey Davenport, Joanie Caucus. I think Trudeau is/was really at his best with people a little older than himself - without the generational rah-rahing of the Boomer cast, his sympathetic eye comes through even with fairly loathsome characters. I just now reread most of the late 80s and there's some great Phil stuff. Something really kind-hearted about him trying to escape his problems with the SEC by going ballroom dancing with Alice. Trudeau was happy to send him up the river as a slimy 80s insider trading creep, but he still saw him as basically a person.

Destroy: on the opposite end, all of the Generation X characters except maybe Kim Rosenthal (redeemable mainly by her appearances as an infant and teenager). Alex, Sal Doonesbury, and especially ZIPPER who serves no purpose at all besides "Crap, I want to do stories about kids in college these days, but Zonker is too old!" At least the others were long-developed relations of the other characters; Zipper came out of nowhere and became quickly inescapable, like Poochy or something.

Ron Headrest is also unbelievably tedious - were those strips funny at the time? Big skippers for me now.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 15 November 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

"a little older" above should probably just be "older," since Lacey Davenport was born in 1910 or so!

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 15 November 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

Reading further into the 90s, though, I gotta say, he way he handles Mike Doonesbury is a really fantastic portrayal of a nebbish whose principles get worn away by circumstance. 70s campus leftie, forced in the 80s to work for the promotion of cigarettes, Reagan, and Big Oil, then cramped completely out of relevancy by unemployment, he ends up making it big in dot-com land and slumping right into being a Forbes voter - and even in his newfound comfort he can't take on the moral crisis of having to either fire his girlfriend or another innocent bystander of his choosing. Setting aside all the wish fulfillment in these stories, it's a pretty pathetic life story, made bearable only by his status as a loving father (highlighted by JJ, who sells out just as hard and ditches the family for the strip's most irredeemable lowlife)....

Yeah, I like Doonesbury a lot.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:56 (seventeen years ago)


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