Sunday was my 70th birthday, and I couldn't have asked for a nicer way to start my day. Thanks for the present!

I'm trying to find some way to express the delight I took in today's strip. The best I can manage is a gleeful "Oh boy!" Many thanks.

Ah, it's a beautiful thing to see when someone "big" gets as good as he loves to "give" the little people. Normally, I don't like bickering and sniping, but I can't help but ... love ... today's strip.

Merry meet. I have been meaning to tell you how very much I have enjoyed your comic through the decades. You are an inspiration and a genius o'wit. I wish you love and laughter and a wee bit o' Magick. Blessed be!

Thanks for the Flashback page's 40-years-ago-today strip about Louisa Day Hicks, a champion of racial segregation in Boston schools. I had no idea this went on and is still going on.

Great to see this strip again -- I have thought of it many times when I heard someone (sometimes me!) propose to throw the "full weight" of whatever little cohort we were in against a problem. Classic Doonesbury: funny, humane, wise on several levels.

The "James Watt" reference in today's strip didn't ring a bell, so I had to Google him. Wow. A guy who believed in the Rapture was made guardian of U.S. national assets.

One of my friends summed it up thusly: "We're old. The young women are not interested in us, they're just being polite."

I find it ironic to hear Mike complaining to another middle-aged man about how aging has left them feeing "invisible" in front of a "hot" younger woman. How many women who they had not considered "hot" had been invisible to them over the course of their lives?

I've been smiling all day since reading today's strip. It tapped into my angst of being a teenager in the '50s. Since I know you weren't one, I wonder how you became so insightful about what we now-70-year-olds remember all too well. Brilliant!

The young ladies, regardless of their natural beauty, don't ignore me, perhaps because I tend to regard them as grandchildren of a sort. This is not to say I've never come upon rude young women, or rude young men for that matter, but they appear to be rude to everyone, not just this old "invisible" fellow!

Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen...Try looking at women who have learned over the years how to see you. As a stunningly beautiful, totes-rocking woman just a teensy bit younger than GBT and therefore of Mike and Bernie, all I can say is: Didn't mean to ignore you back then. Life was weird; I was learning. Take off your babe-o-scope glasses and look around.

To me, the worst part about aging is the certainty that I will miss out on so much that is to come. On the other hand, our current old people not aging and dying would mean that our current billion or so children would not get to take over and likely do rather better than their elders by forming the first truly global civil society. If hanging around to see it would mean that it wouldn't be there to see, I guess I'm OK with the whole old age and death thing.

I find kindness, a smile, and most of my attempts at humor keep me visible, even at 60.

Poor Mike! Can I suggest he ask Garry to give him a fashionista waxed moustache? It works wonders for my 50-something husband, who now gets ladies of all ages chatting to him. It seems as successful as having a cute, small dog but without the cleaning-up-after-it issues. Meanwhile, as the 50-something female partner of the 'tache, I still get zip!

Re HIGH POINT: Rick's wide-eyed wonder looks like sheer terror to me. But notice as he looks around he realizes that this is exactly what he wants, and we all know that he and Joanie go on to be one of the world's greatest couples.

Rick gets the funniest lines. His remark about wearing shoes still makes me laugh after all these years and having read it innumerable times.

This is the best story segment for a while. But who are the little kids in Tuesday's wedding ceremony strip?

The look of wide-eyed wonder in Rick's eyes as the vows are being read is the high point of the week.

I love how the twins already have fully formed personalities (including the distinctive noses). Can't wait to see where this goes.