What was Trudeau thinking?!? (in his own words)

[DarkPhenyx]

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/index.html

Q:

I'm shocked by the current storyline. B.D. losing a leg? What was Trudeau thinking?!?
-- Lela A., Portland, OR

A:

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The strips are about sacrifice, about the kind of shattering loss that completely changes lives. In B.D., I've placed a central character in harm's way, and his charmed life takes a dramatic turn on a road outside Fallujah. In the opening panels, he's in shock, hallucinating, with voices cutting in and out. Medics call this time the golden hour, that small window of opportunity when lives are most easily saved. B.D. is medevaced out, and in the third strip, the point of view is reversed, revealing just how grievous his wound really is. We also see his hair, its presence almost as startling as the absence of his leg.

[randr]

1. Thanks Gary!

BRINGING IT HOME IT THE BRIGHT DAYLIGHT!

[brainshrub]

2. Perhaps now Mallard Fillmore will get a no-bid contract

to do business in Iraq.

That would balance everything out.

[Jim Sagle]

3. Reading Mallard Fillmore is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Really stupid ducks. n/m

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