I wonder if Rick Redfern will be laughing quite so diabolically when his son moves back in.

In the current Straw Poll it's too bad GBT didn't include an answer D: All of the above!

Knew this was coming; as always, too good to be true. For some reason though I feel a bit uneasy about Jeff's fall from grace. It's like you say finally someone has found success in even a small part of the world, only to have things tipped upside-down just like that. It feels too much like the real world now, everyone asking for more and more, but we aren't getting any better. Depressing...

Another Trudeau psychic phenomenon: anticipating in 1972 that a strip about McGovern would serve as his epitaph in 2012.

Wait, Jeff! Don't panic! Just go to your computer and dash off a little missive about how the Red Rascal finds terrorist repo men trying to plant a bomb in his ride, the Rascal trounces them all, and tosses the bomb to explode harmlessly in an empty field. It's perfect! Send it off to your publisher, look outside, and... Oh, wow. The car's still gone. So much for magical thinking. Jeff Redfern -- legend in his own mind, a loser in real life.

Oh bother - I was just starting to believe in the American Dream...

This isn't simply a blow to Jeff. It's a setback to boneheaded, Oakley-wearing posers the world over.

As much as I'd like to see the Red Rascal get his comeuppance, seeing him done in by a repo man is still sad.

I called it early when Jeff blew his advance on the mansion. Most people don't understand how advances against sales work in publishing. I look forward to Rick and Jeff getting closer now and maybe even working together.

Oh God, this week is going to be great. Karma is finally catching up with Jeff!

I have been reading your strip since I started delivering Newsday in 1971. I am amazed that you still come up with the things that you do. Rock on, Garry!

Every morning, when I turn on my computer, my first stop is "Doonesbury Strip." That dash of humor braces me for the second link, "The New York Times," and the third, my email. Since the function to copy and send strips has been enabled, I sometimes email those out. Garry Trudeau and I are contemporaries. I hope I die before he does.

Oy vey, Mark has some serious intimacy issues. He needs a workshop or something to move him forward out of his adolescent self-obsession. Getting a dog sounds like a good first move after doing some research on canine cohabitation, though he better damn-well commit to the dog. Perhaps it would be wiser if he starts with a talking daffodil and sees how that goes.

Maybe instead of going for the Anderson Cooper look, Mark should have been going after Anderson Cooper.

Get with it, Mark. While you've been wandering around lost in a self-absorbed haze, my next door neighbors got married (as soon as Massachusetts made it legal) and have moved into a long-term loving relationship that puts most straight relationships to shame. They're also the greatest neighbors my wife and I have ever had.

What an engrossing current series of strips! As a fellow gay man named Mark also looking for a life partner, I so hope that Mr. Slackmeyer finds his Mr. Right. Since the beginning, Mark and B.D. have been my favorite characters in the strip. (I'm not hoping for anything to happen between them; I know B.D. is very hetero, but it'd be interesting to see him and Mark interact. I take it they are friends.) Banal as it sounds I care about those two guys a lot. Here's hoping Mark finds happiness -- me too, for that matter!

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?