I love that GBT a practical male perspective to one matrimonial tradition. Indeed, "Why (not see the bride)? What's wrong with her?" The minister had a practical male appreciation for Joannie as well. (With approving glance: "I'd go through with it."). Of course Zonker had to weigh in....

The WAY BACK WHEN post reminded me of my brother telling me that he was always very popular on the days my mother's shipment of the week's comics (from four newspapers) arrived in Korea. Beetle Bailey wasn't otherwise available!

Thank you for running these strips from way back when. I had enlisted in the Army in early '77, and missed everything due to being overseas until your 1983 hiatus. I'm loving the Sunday stuff as well. Please, keep it going!

Boy oh boy, the twins sure have grown. I feel like I've missed their early years.

Toggle dealing with his kids imitating his aphasia is real sweet. Well done. Thank you.

The twins are growing up much too fast. I wish they could have stayed telepathic infants a bit longer

One twin has "the Doonesbury nose," the other has Toggle's. Interesting.

Today's 15-years ago Flashback, to Duke seeking corporate sponsors for his election campaign, was stunningly prescient.

I was around for the 1981 Medfly spraying. As I recall, nobody died from it, but the medflies didn't disappear either.

Re the "Preppy Menace" series: In hindsight, perhaps the eradication of the Preppies (and their British cousins, the Sloane Rangers) wasn't such a good thing after all. Politics in all democratic nations was much more civilised when the various right-of-centre parties had a good supply of courteous and well-educated (or at least expensively-educated) patricians among their leadership.

Thirty-four years later and the infestation matures and invades Washington. With a hamstrung EPA, perhaps a stronger pesticide this time?

Classic irony from Trudeau; using Twitter -- the hotbed of unsubstantiated rumors -- as confirmation of a newspaper fact. Love it!

Duke's Luger has been referenced at least once before, when he was at bar being pestered by a lawyer from the NRA who, it turned out, wanted him to testify at Judiciary Committee hearings on gun control.

Duke gave Brenner more of a chance than Oscar gave Reeva!

Duke had a Luger? Picked up off an SS officer in WW2? Perhaps he was a child spy...

Today's strip with Duke eerily reminds me of the Oscar Pistorius case.

Thanks for the re-run of Duke at the stairs. A classic among classics.

Thank you for remembering and honoring the murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, and lampooning the Muslim extremists/terrorists, with your clever, entertaining, poignant and moving comic strip today. We ordered a subscription to Charlie Hebdo after the horrible attack in Paris, even though we do not speak, and can barely read, French. We just wanted to support freedom of the press, tolerance, and cartoonists everywhere. Sincere regards!

Today's strip is GBT at his glorious best! With one line he puts the Charlie Hebdo tragedy into perspective: Freedom of speech is not about offending others because you can. To still get your point across is the real art of satire. Not chicken, just brilliant!

Although the entire civilized world was shocked by the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, most people outside of France would not have known their cartoons. Thank you for not merely reminding us of them, but also showing Americans some of their creations.