Thursday, April 22, 2004

Comic Strip Synergy

Two comic strips are doing story lines this week about soldiers being wounded in Iraq--specifically, both have characters losing a leg. Not surprisingly, one of the strips is Doonsbury (the story line starts here). Doonsbury is so political that several local papers in places I've lived ran it on the editorial page rather than in the comics section as a matter of course. You can click through at the above link to todays strip. It's a doozy.

The second comic strip is a bit unexpected. Get Fuzzy usually tackles the siamese cat-shar pei household dynamic, but here's the start of Get Fuzzy's Iraq story line. Rob, the shar pei and siamese cat's owner, finds out his cousin is coming back stateside because he's lost a leg. Darby Conly takes a completely different perspective on the story from GB Trudeau, with, as one might expect, a bit more humor while still capturing the essential fear of the family back at home.

I'll be waiting to see both strips tomorrow.

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