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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.comics,net.misc
Subject: Re: What's happened to Doonesbury?
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 14:18:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 14:18:45 1984
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>
> I eagerly awaited the return of Doonebury to my
> local paper. Having read it since then, I've found that I'm very
> disappointed in the quality of the work. 

	I thought the sequence with Uncle Duke and the 
Baby Doc College of Medicine was funny.  

	When Bloom County first started there were some people
that did not like it too much.  Bloom County is like 
Doonseburry because its characters have personality.
Doonseburry is really kind of slow and a lot of the  humor is
made possible because we get to know the characters so well.
When I started reading it again (saited only by my collection
of all of the Doonseburry collections) I realized that it was
going to take a while to get reaquainted with the characters.
I think he is doing well, just give it time.   After we got
to know everyone in Bloom County the strip became great.
Trudeau needs to introduce the actors.  

	I am optimistic that Trudeau is setting us up for
some good laughs.  


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