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End of an era
Apr. 21st, 2004 11:41 amIt's not surprising that Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau has brought his hawkish college football hero/occasional soldier B.D. into Iraq, and although in theory he's getting a bit long in the tooth (he's a Vietnam veteran, as well) I believe that there are actually older soldiers over there now.
The real shocker is that we finally see him without a helmet of some sort. (WARNING: pretty graphic for a newspaper strip--he's missing something else, as well.) B.D. has never, to the best of my knowledge, been seen bareheaded in thirty-odd years of the strip. I've been reading Doonesbury, off and on, for over a quarter-century (and doesn't that make me feel older than ever), and it's good to know that Trudeau is willing to ditch a running joke of very long standing to make a point.
The real shocker is that we finally see him without a helmet of some sort. (WARNING: pretty graphic for a newspaper strip--he's missing something else, as well.) B.D. has never, to the best of my knowledge, been seen bareheaded in thirty-odd years of the strip. I've been reading Doonesbury, off and on, for over a quarter-century (and doesn't that make me feel older than ever), and it's good to know that Trudeau is willing to ditch a running joke of very long standing to make a point.
