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Mon 3 Dec, 2007 08:02 am
I'm not sure if I've been so chilled by a cartoon before. Excepting Maus.
Perhaps there is a generation gap here--war zones are very dangerous places. My reaction is not horror, but deep sadness.
I'm afraid at least a hundred families of at least a hundred soldiers are going to have unexpectedly melancholy holidays again this year.
Yes, I agree.
The context is part of it, and part of what I appreciate -- it's been mostly silly stuff lately, even the stuff set in Iraq, and then boom. Literally.
I think it very effectively brings home the reality of war, which Trudeau has made a sort of mission, it seems. And I respect that. First the B.D. storyline, and now this. (I expect Toggle is a goner, but that Ray will emerge at some level of wholeness.)
Civilian compartmentalization is natural--and unrealistic.
Quite possibly dozens of Christmas Cheerleaders are scribbling notes of indignation to their local newspapers about the poor taste of mentioning arbitrary, capricious death in the month of December.
Doonesbury keeps it real, for a lot of us.
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