I can't help thinking that yesterday's fifteen-years-ago Flashback strip was just slightly irresponsible. The ground invasion of Iraq started 11 days later, if memory serves, and I've always wondered whether GWB wasn't shamed into it by GBT.

How perfect were the details in Sunday's strip. Mel, after all she has been through with the military, still wears ARMY on her sweater. Harassed, hurt and damaged -- but unable to let go...

Aerosmith for Andy's funeral sounds good to me. I've told my kids to play me out with the Beatles' "When I'm 64" and "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Segar. Crank it up!

On yesterday's strip? I got to the fifth panel and straight-up cried. Thank you for that, and please come back to the dailies soon!

Melissa is a brilliant candidate and Joanie on the campaign will make this a helluva team. Go for it! And of course GBT will have to resume daily strips in order to cover the race...

When will Jeff wander through the kitchen? I love watching Mel skewer him.

Oh please bring Joan back to the campaign trail on behalf of Melissa, and please involve Rick's dry wit. ("We need a noun, Senator.")

Yes! Yes! Yes!! I heard myself shouting when I read today's strip. I don't know yet exactly what Melissa's running for, but in hindsight it's so obvious -- of course she will run; I don't need to list all the reasons why, but who could possibly be a more perfect candidate in 2018? Getting Joanie on her team is icing on the cake, although also brilliant. I can't remember when I've been this excited...!

I can’t help thinking that Rick did that on purpose to get Joanie back in the game. Good for him. Good for her. Good for them all.

Mel's running for congress -- that's brilliant! She's the perfect character, and her campaign is the perfect vehicle for commentary on the Big Orange Catastrophe. Good luck, Mel, you have my vote!

Today's strip is like a breath of fresh air. Thank you for reminding me that our country's political system may have problems, but that there are people like Melissa who give us hope for the future.

What a wonderful new story line! Thanks and can't wait to follow it.

What a perfect linkage of past and present, reality and cartoon! Melissa is a great candidate for these times, as Ginny Sloan was back decades ago! Let's hope that if Melissa can't win, she loses to a worthy candidate such as Lacey Davenport. Nice job, GBT, again staying relevant on the cutting edge of comedy and politics. Granted, these days there is a fine line between them...

I'll just point out that Duke has disappeared several times, and always seems to reappear. It's part of what makes him Duke. When Trump became President, I thought: "Ugh. This is going to be a long four years. But, on the bright side, Doonesbury and SNL are going to have a lot of material to work with!" Thanks, Garry, for proving me correct. Doonesbury got me through the '70s, '80s, '90s, and '00s. I have no doubt I will survive the '10s with your help!

I'm bemused that so many people think Duke's Sunday strip "disappearance" was anything but a one-time gag. It never for a moment occurred to me that it was anything else.

Duke's thoroughly outrageous behavior, closely resembling reality, has cracked me up for decades, He deserves a more suitable and flamboyant ending, like the one he once fantasized -- grabbing his gun and krugerrands and going out in a hail of bullets.

If ever there was a fictional character who summed up everything venal and plain wrong about the last forty years it is Duke, so if this really is the end of his character then so be it. It's been one hell of a ride. Actually, no it hasn't. Duke is like a cigarette. The idea sounds okay at first but pretty soon everything is dirty and cheapened. Duke always was a low-rent John Falstaff, and who would actually want to meet that odious creep in real life?

Trff is a perfect fit for this administration, right down to the "no complaints" shrug-off in today's strip. But then I got to the end, and I'm all "Nooooo! Not the Duke!" I genuinely wonder if and slightly fear that we may never see him again. Also, I actually don't remember him ever sexually harassing a woman. Maltreat another and advantage himself, sure, but only to the same degree he did everyone else. I'd like to think it's possible Duke may see some future reform.

Trff set a fashion in dictator hairdos, one followed, it seems, by Kim Jong Un.