I truly love the sometimes obtuse political positions your daily strip presents. They are think-making.

(via QR code link ): Do your story lines concentrate on disreputable characters by design? I sometimes stop reading your strip for a week if nobody does anything decent for a while. Then again, if you changed the tone entirely and renamed it "Mother Teresa," that wouldn't be right either. Just my thoughts over morning coffee. Best wishes.

Interesting... I thought I'd skip a lot of Doonesbury Flashbacks over the summer, having seen most of the strips at one time or another. But all summer, and even now (despair! ten more weeks!) I saunter on over to see what's up with the guys, needing my Doonesbury fix at least once a day, old or new. They still entertain. I still enjoy the visit. Should I be surprised?

I loved Sunday's strip. There was a strikingly similar event just two days before, when a cargo ship full of pot went up in flames off the coast of Malta. "Firefighting vessels had to return to port early after running out of snacks."

I love Zonker's tie-dye in the new Sunday strip! Thanks to GBT for drawing the Sunday strips, even if he doesn't have time yet for the dailies. I'm grateful for whatever he can produce.

Perhaps the "Red Rascal" could be diverted to Syria, lending some badly needed help in clearing the fogs of war in the region.

If I don't get my Doonesbury I get like Rainman and his Wapner.

What an interesting juxtaposition on the Doonesbury home page today: the video clip from Erroll Morriss's documentary on Donald Rumsfeld opposite the Huffington Post piece with the TEDTalk video and article on "What Gamers Can Teach Us." Where Rumsfeld continues with his reptilian smile and claims of not being obsessed with Sadddam Hussein, Jane McGonigal shows a determination to not only get 'better' but to also pass on what she's learned. We have to keep the risks posed by the Rumsfelds of the world in mind; I'd much rather listen to the hopeful messages of people like McGonigal any day.

Feeling sort of blah today but here's Zonker walking in like an old friend I haven't seen in way too long. Really brightened my day. Thanks.

Yesss! Welcome back, G.T. ! It's been a long, hot summer without you here in Colorado, as Zipper and Zonker can tell you.

During GBT's hiatus I've really enjoyed the Flashbacks. I dreaded a summer of them, but I have found them to be so well-chosen and well-timed. On the second reading, one can sometimes appreciate the humor, detail, and prescience (and sometimes double-prescience in the Flashback!) even more than the first time around. The often piquant details benefit from being savored a second time.

OK, it's "after Labor Day" and I'm having flashbacks from the Flashbacks! When do the new strips commence?

Re THE NEW STRIPS: If Melissa must have a boyfriend who's a sociopath, rather than Jeff I'd rather she hook up with Earl, spawn of Duke. At least Duke would have someone new to interact with who will serve as a foil for him. Not to mention; if she's going to reform a bad boy, Earl probably deserves redemption more than Jeff does.

Love the daily Flashbacks page. Google Inc. was incorporated on September 4, 1998, two days after Bernie predicted in the strip that a really smart search engine would evaporate the competition. Is GBT a prophet?

Forty years ago today: "That was beautiful, Alice." 'Nuff said.

I have been a fan since 1980, and am an owner/operator of the Duke action figure. I would be very happy to someday hear that Sorkh Rhazil was available as a companion piece.

Reading the Flashback strips these past months got to be like eating slightly old (tho' still savory) salted peanuts one at a time. So I made the big commitment and have just received the huge volume I should have ordered in 2010 when it came out: 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective. Hey, thousands of the best from the first 40 years, and few of us can say we read every one the first time around. Bring on rainy fall nights by the fire! But first, with luck, September 8 and the "live" GBT setting the world right, or slightly off-center, once more.

Today's strip is hilarious. I would've never thought of that. I expected to see Jeff downstairs slaving away, dreaming up and writing all kinds of material. It had me laughing out loud!

Thanks so much for addressing sexual assaults in the military. It needed to be said. Keep up the good work.

Re THE NEW STRIPS: Please no! Not Jeff and Melissa! Whenever Melissa is ready for a relationship with a man, she deserves a regular, grown-up adult, not a delusional Walter Mitty with a superhero complex.