Unfortunately, She Was Also Wired for Sound (A Doonesbury book / by G.B. Trudeau)

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Summary: Mike Doonesbury learns the source of his college tuition...
Review: Like "Ask for May, Settle for June," this particular collection of "Doonesebury" daily strips comes from the period 1981-1982, otherwise known as the early years of the Reagan Administration. However, the biggest target in "Unfortunately, She Was Also Wired for Sound" was not Ronald Reagan but a group of Oklahoma county commissioners caught in a political scandal. You see, the character of Michael Doonesbury just happened to come from Tulsa, which meant that for two weeks Gary Trudeau provided the nation with his own take on the situation, seeing as how Mike's Uncle Henry happened to be one of those commissioners. But before we get to that there are even larger concerns, such as Zonker retiring from competitive tanning, Duke "accidentally" shooting Brenner (and deciding once was not enough), and Richard Davenport trying to get the Maryland Audubon Society behind a call for the resignation of Secretary of the Interior Watt. The left comes in for its share of the fun as Ellie and Jeannie debate the merits of the Equal Rights Amendment with their first grade classmates and Walter Mondale is given a political "makeover" in preparation for challenging Reagan in 1984. As for the Gipper, the line to the woodshed is sure getting long with all of the President's men who had embarrassed the White House. One of the things about those strips that usually impressed me was that even when you had all four frames showing the White House, Trudeau still managed to put something in visually as an artistic counterpoint to the verbal humor. The end result is that this "Doonesbury" collection is average at best. Of course, every political crisis can not be as much fun as Watergate...

Rating:
Summary: Mike Doonesbury learns the source of his college tuition...
Review: Like "Ask for May, Settle for June," this particular collection of "Doonesebury" daily strips comes from the period 1981-1982, otherwise known as the early years of the Reagan Administration. However, the biggest target in "Unfortunately, She Was Also Wired for Sound" was not Ronald Reagan but a group of Oklahoma county commissioners caught in a political scandal. You see, the character of Michael Doonesbury just happened to come from Tulsa, which meant that for two weeks Gary Trudeau provided the nation with his own take on the situation, seeing as how Mike's Uncle Henry happened to be one of those commissioners. But before we get to that there are even larger concerns, such as Zonker retiring from competitive tanning, Duke "accidentally" shooting Brenner (and deciding once was not enough), and Richard Davenport trying to get the Maryland Audubon Society behind a call for the resignation of Secretary of the Interior Watt. The left comes in for its share of the fun as Ellie and Jeannie debate the merits of the Equal Rights Amendment with their first grade classmates and Walter Mondale is given a political "makeover" in preparation for challenging Reagan in 1984. As for the Gipper, the line to the woodshed is sure getting long with all of the President's men who had embarrassed the White House. One of the things about those strips that usually impressed me was that even when you had all four frames showing the White House, Trudeau still managed to put something in visually as an artistic counterpoint to the verbal humor. The end result is that this "Doonesbury" collection is average at best. Of course, every political crisis can not be as much fun as Watergate...