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Doonesbury 5-18-2025
(www.seattletimes.com)
When I was a kid, every Sunday after church we'd go pick up the newspaper from my grandmother's house because she'd be done with it by then and my frugal parents sure as hell weren't going to pay for their own subscription.
I of course was mostly interested in the comics section. I remember Doonesbury being a thing back then, and I'd read it and at some point I even started to understand it when I was a little older, but it was never one I particularly enjoyed, most of the other comics were far more entertaining to my adolescent mind. I remember Non Sequitur and Opus being my favorites back then.
Fast forward almost 2 decades, my wife and I recently got a subscription to our local newspaper, the same one I grew up reading every Sunday. The funny pages are a lot more condensed than they used to be, that's probably a sign of the times as far as traditional print newspapers go. Some of my old favorites are gone, there's a couple new ones that are pretty good, most of the old staples that are as boring and safe as always, I'm happy to see Dilbert gone even though that was once a favorite of mine.
Doonesbury is still there, and maybe it was always this good and I just was too young to appreciate it, but I definitely think it's my new favorite.