Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.comics,net.misc Subject: Re: What's happened to Doonesbury? Message-ID: <176@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 17:18:29 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.176 Posted: Sun Dec 30 17:18:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 00:57:21 EST References: <2110@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Distribution: net Organization: Somewhere in Soho Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.comics:1338 net.misc:7196 Can't agree with Chuq here. I enjoy Bloom County for just-plain zaniness and computer fun. Doonesbury continues to be the excellent political satire it has always been (I really enjoyed the "Reagan view of the White House" this morning... what is excellent about the strip is that it is a laugh/cry situation...). It was somewhat weird when Zonker was taking up a lot of space (the U-boat commander was always one of my favorite bits), but I think that type of humor would not stand up well to Bloom C. I also don't think we've been given the time to see a lot of the old characters, but I'm sure that will change. At any rate, the humor is still pointed yet gentle (I've yet to see anything vicious in Trudeau's work... at the most, he gets exasperated, which is what *I* get, too!). Some very good stuff; I suspect that perhaps he does belong on the Editorial page... "Hi. This is God." "Uh-Oh..." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA