Blowback

Blowback

A clean, well-lit place to vent

Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.

  • SAM

    John P. | Silverton, CO | January 28, 2014

    I hope that Sam has a safety valve, like Walden or Harvard.

  • PETE SEEGER

    David Ferrier | Edmonton, CANADA | January 28, 2014

    Thanks so much for today's Daily Briefing link to the NYT Pete Seeger obit. He was my favourite folksinger.  Doonesbury readers might also like to read this piece in The Telegraph: "Pete Seeger: Ten Great Songs."

    Editor's Note:

     And there's this, by performer, educator and author Stuart Stotts: "He was about singing together."

  • BIG DIFFERENCE

    Maryhelen Posey | Calgary, CANADA | January 28, 2014

    There's a big difference between a blunt and snappish response to baby screams at 2:00 am (probably for the third time since 1:00 am) and moving out on the kids!

  • HATS OFF

    Chuck | Columbus, OH | January 28, 2014

    Hats off to Alpha House, one of the brightest, most well-cast comedies on any platform. I really hope we see a Season Two.

  • BARKING

    Gahd Shemava | New York, NY | January 28, 2014

    It's a little scary to see Alex barking angrily at the twins. After all, she's got some serious family baggage to deal with already. Her mother (J.J.) abandoned her, and J.J. had been abandoned by her own mother, Joanie. Is Alex starting to play out a recurring role?

  • NITTY GRITTY

    Peter Mikkelsen | Pasco, WA | January 28, 2014

    Ahh, I love it! Alex channels Ralph Kramden! Move it on over, Hunk-Ra, it's getting real nitty-gritty right now...

  • ALPHA HOUSE

    Treva Obbard | Baltimore, MD | January 24, 2014

    I just watched all of Alpha House in two days (I was off my game, it should have taken one) and I just wanted to say that it was fantastic. Live-action Doonesbury, in terms of humor and ridiculousness of situation! I hope we're goiing to get a Season 2.

  • THE EYES

    Ray Lampe | Templeton, MA | January 24, 2014

    To those who say Sam can't get to MIT, I say "Watch this space." She already has the eyes.

  • MIT

    Vaughn | Lucerne, CA | January 23, 2014

    Re Alex and MIT: My rural California friends' high school son decided last week that he wants to go to Harvard. His mother's comment was, "Baby, I don't think you can get there from here."

  • LOINS

    Stephen Malcolm | Westminster, MD | January 23, 2014

    Boopsie and menopause ?  B.D. had better gird his loins. I can already feel the presence of Hunk Ra!

  • BEST WISHES

    Mary Collins | Long Creek, SC | January 22, 2014

    Best wishes to GBT and his family -- and not because of the Flashbacks, which are fun.

  • PRECEDENCE

    David Chamberlin | Arlington, VA | January 22, 2014

    Family emergencies take precedence over daily script requirements. Mr. Trudeau has planted so many new situations the wait will be worth it.

  • FLASHBACKS AGAIN

    Michael Morrone | Biloxi, MS | January 21, 2014

    Flashbacks again. Did I miss something? Is Mr. Trudeau off writing more Alpha House scripts, or just taking a break? The Flashbacks are great too, I'm just wondering.

    Editor's Note:

     Sorry for the unexpected reversion to Flashback strips. The syndicate sent a notice to client newspapers indicating that GBT couldn’t file new material due to an illness in the family. New strips will resume next week.

  • FLASHBACKS

    Mike | Rome, NY | January 21, 2014

    Now my Flashbacks are having flashbacks. Noooooooooo!

  • CONFUSED

    Ed Cherlin | Columbus, IN | January 21, 2014

    Weren't the Blue Bandit and Lord Dirtbag both Republican candidates in 2012? Wait, that can't be; neither of them would have worn blue. Okay, I'm really, definitely confused.

  • RICK

    Andrus | Geneva, SWITZERLAND | January 20, 2014

    If only we could all age as gracefully as Rick.

  • HEY!

    Marcello Franchi | Bologna, ITALY | January 19, 2014

    Hey! Twenty years ago Mark was coming out. Did anybody notice ?

  • PRESCIENCE

    Peter Mikkelsen | Pasco, WA | January 19, 2014

    GBT's prescience is profound. The Flashback to the strip that ran 40 years ago today shows a possible scenario for the nascence of the corporatization of social movements as driven by self-interest -- and lo, the fragmentation of the Left.

  • ROLAND

    Darin | Brisbane, AUSTRALIA | January 19, 2014

    If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to take a selfie with it and post it on social media, did it really happen? Roland says no.

  • UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

    Fritz | The Happy Valley, MA | January 18, 2014

    It's interesting that the unrealistic college expectations are coming from Sam. Usually, it is the parents who are clueless about how hard it is to get into a top school today. They think about what it was like when they applied to college, and can't imagine how different it will be for their child.