I hate to burst Alex's bubble, but the garter/holster has already been done. Someone was selling them at the annual "Women's Expo" here in March.

Am I the only one seeing a striking resemblance to a certain sad sack round-headed little boy in the final frame today?

My sister and I were both avid readers, and stayed up many a late night sharing our parents' Doonesbury Chronicles by the light of our little nightlight. We'd also play "B.D. and Phred" and have adventures trekking around the jungle of our bedroom.

When B.D. was in Vietnam, I was there too, as a high school student. These strips feel very fresh for me. I really enjoy them. Thanks.

Ah, the developing friendship between BD and Phred. I first encountered this during my initial exposure to Doonesbury "back in the day" as a student at Lafayette. Thanks for the memories, GBT.

Like others, I feel happy to re-see the old old flashbacks, but I am especially glad to see B.D. and Phred bonding in color; makes more difference than with the college strips. It's a jungle out there.

While I have seen these strips many times, and have them in book form (I just ran across them unpacking my library), I do enjoy the reminiscing. In particular, the first meeting with Phred is wonderful. I wish we would see more of him in current strips.

Sorry, but unlike others commenting here I am not enjoying these early strips. Doonesbury used to be the first thing I looked at in the morning, before the NYT or The Dish or 3 Quarks, but now I only drop in from time to time to see if anything has changed. I wish GT success in his new ventures, and I have enjoyed "Alpha House" a lot, but I feel like I have lost an old friend here.

The really worrisome outcome in the current "Better Sex After 60" Straw Poll is the low number of under-30 responders. Although it may reflect a natural lack of concern for a situation many years in their future, I fear it reflects the low proportion of under-30 readership. I wonder where the younger generation goes, then, for its dose of reality. Talk radio?

Ah, we're back at Firebase Bundy. I was hoping to see B.D.'s Vietnam tour again. I've missed Phred in the modern strips, especially after B.D. was wounded in Iraq.

Poor Austin. When we first saw him, he had the glow of new employment after months of looking. The glow is gone: the economy hasn't picked up, so he's still there working the phones. I know what the pay was for the call center I worked at a few years ago, and that people who worked there for years had the same pay as us newbies. It did have health insurance, which I paid for with half of my monthly paycheck and nothing from the company except for the privilege of having health insurance. I didn't meet the metrics, so was shown the door, but I got to keep my COBRA package. Some of the best people on earth work at call centers. Good man, Austin, good man.

I've been enjoying the Flashbacks, although I know so many of the strips by heart. I woke up this morning to the sight of this horrible fluffy white stuff falling from the sky, and Duke instantly popped into my mind. Facing a similar situation whilst standing in the Samoan surf with his aide-de-camp MacArthur: "I'm a reasonable man, MacArthur, so I know this isn't snow." Thanks, GBT, for so many years of smiles!

I can't begin to tell you how cool it is to revisit your earliest strips. All of a sudden I'm back in college again. Thanks for the memories.

Ah, yes, here's the one-off H.D. Thoreau joke that ends up renaming Yale.

It's fun to be re-reading the old strips -- a cultural chronicle of some of our history. Is the plan to keep running older strips for the duration of the hiatus?

Aha! The twins are not identical...

I'm really enjoying these early strips. I've been following Doonesbury since it first appeared in the early 1980s in the Guardian. It's fascinating to see the start of it all.

Okay, today's video, "From BumpTo Buzz," had my wife and I crying in our coffee. Are you happy now?

Yay, Momsbury! Doonemom? My mother claimed that she could observe both her Yalie sons objectively, and that if we weren't the absolute best children in the world and completely perfect in every way, she would have said so plainly and openly.

I like that the twins can communicate telepathically. Mine could.