I'm sure Mark would be a great Dad. He should ignore the suggestion to get a pup: kids are much easier, in that most eventually get toilet trained. (And you don't have to collect their poop from the floor, or at least not too often). If Mark gets to fulfill his dream, whether by adoption or by meeting the man of his dreams who happens to have kids, I'll be forever grateful.

Oh dear! Mark, I think maybe you should adopt a pup if you want to just play 'catch.' Being a parent never, ever stops -- it is the most arduous, glorious, fabulous, worrisome job in the world.

Mr. Trudeau, regardless of the fact I read Doonesbury for free each day on Slate I still feel we pay you too well for you to take any more vacations. I've already seen this week's strips and my modern day attention span demands new input at all times. Most everyone else is working longer and harder for less these days, so get back to work and entertain me! And don't even think about retirement. George Burns worked well into his 100's. We expect no less.

Will Mark ever learn that it's not about finding "the one," but being the one, and being comfortable in that, which makes life good?

Religions laughing at themselves? Ever been to a Presbyterian church when the pastor tries to get "God's Frozen Chosen" to sing a peppy Baptist hymn? Now, that's funny.

What do women do with three 'extra' minutes in the kitchen? Clean anything that's dirty, put away dry dishes, tidy away mess, prepare something else at the same time...and wish that some men would do the same.

Whaoo! The idea of pushing content to the micro-displays of the kitchen utillities that Earl came up with today strikes me as totally cool. And I'm a programmer! Good thinking!

I have to complain about the options offered in the current Straw Poll on HuffPo. I am a regular HuffPo reader and commenter and I agreed with all three of the choices describing the site. Everyone of them was dead-on.

Ahhhhhhhhh...... There we go! I've been waiting for the punchline for this series all week long. Thanks, Garry. I knew this week wasn't about religion as much as it was going to be about politics and the man himself, whom I reject as well!

You can add Unitarian-Universalists (God doesn't have multiple personalities and everybody gets to heaven eventually) to the list of those who can laugh at themselves. Of course that's because we're not a real religion.

All this week, GBT has been poking fun at the unwashed, slovenly, gauloise-smoking French. When is he going to give us Brits the same treatment?

I am finding it hard to believe this current series, which is set in 1968. At that time no Parisian in their right mind would speak English to a person who was speaking English. Even if they knew English they would be dammed if they would use it -- make the Anglos squirm!

Since when is Mormonism, or any religion, beyond poking fun at? Come on, folks, one of the biggest shows on Broadway is The Book of Mormon!

I must say, in the strip this week Mormons come out better than Parisians. Cheerful, healthy, energetic, clean, smartly turned out -- what's not to like?

Jews do have a good capacity to laugh at themselves. So do Catholics. The rest of us have a bit of an "irony deficiency" as far as laughing at ourselves and our various sectarian foibles is concerned. (I'm neither Mormon, nor Jewish, nor Catholic, but -- in American terms -- a Methodist with marked Episcopalian tendencies.) The concept of Mitt Romney as an earnest young Mormon missionary in ultra-secular 1960s France is tres funny. Let's all lighten up.

Yes indeed. All one has to do is bring up religion to test the humor of the reader. Every great comedian knows that religion is one of the great sacred cows of the human posture. And ridicule and satire is really the only rational response to any religion. R.I.P. Lenny, George, et al.

It's interesting that so many people are accusing GBT of bashing Mormonism in these strips. But the only aspect of Mormonism that is even mentioned is the fact that they send missionaries out door to door. The rest of it is about Mitt. I remember my father telling me about how a book he was reading was "anti-Mormon." I read the book (Irving Wallace's The 27th Wife) and was impressed with how fair and balanced it was. A lot of Mormons seem to believe that anything that isn't praising the religion must be bashing it. When we Mormons finally get over our inferiority complex and are able to laugh at ourselves, then we will have caught up with the Jews.

I've been reading the Blowback comments, and I'm a little disappointed that so many Doonesbury fans are missing the message. It's probably more subtle than usual, but still. This series isn't about Romney's faith, it's about his flipflopping. Really, people should know GBT better by now.

I have been appreciative of your work over the years for its candor, current view, and biting wit. However, I think that your recent strips of Romney in France are very mean-spirited and beneath you. Is there ever an "age of accountability" for political personages? I really don't care what a future politician does in the formative, passionate youthful years. Perhaps we can start poking fun at people when they enter the public eye as neighborhood organizers or company executives, but are our choices in the formative years really germane to the presidential debate? Why not stick to the past 30 years?

People who complain that Trudeau is only mean to Christians obviously haven't been reading the strip. By my count, at least 792 Muslim fanatics have met a violent end at the hands of the Red Rascal.