Funnies Get Serious

While Garfield still bemoans Mondays, Dennis the Menace keeps bugging Mr. Wilson and even Beetle Bailey continues to avoid any actual combat, some serious stuff is going on elsewhere on the funny pages.

Specifically, this week, the battles in Iraq are hitting home in two comic strips. In Doonesbury, it appears that football coach and Army reservist B.D. has been wounded:

Of course, issues of war -- and even life and death -- are nothing new for "Doonesbury" readers. But it is an unusual storyline for Get Fuzzy, which normally takes a more lighthearted look at lead character Rob Wilco, his sarcastic cat Bucky and naive pooch Satchel. This week, Rob gets an unfortunate call:

I'm very interested to see how both storylines play out this week, and gotta give them both credit for tackling such a tough subject.