Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 07, 2022

Hey, Duke saw the errors of his ways and is now on the right side of the law.

Please do, Earl.

Duke, you talk too much!!!

Birds of a feather. In this case, buzzards.

Being caught doing it vs not being caught.

The difference between being a Wall St executive in pinstripes, and not getting enough calories per day while wearing an orange jumpsuit.

Duke you can tempt him or set him up or whatever but you gotta remember he’s stupid.

Interesting choice of story thread right now when we, in real life, have a seemingly untouchable criminal who has done so much worse than steal some soon-to-become worthless goods.

Now tell him that the original owner of the stolen beanie babies is the girl who just turned him in.

I remember that Beanie Baby Craze. I was working at McDonald’s when they had the Teenie Beanies. The place was a madhouse for a week. Yep, that’s how fast we went thru five weeks of Happy Meal toys. And normally you’re allowed to buy just a Happy Meal toy. Not while we had those, because they were too popular. You HAD to buy the Happy Meal. I had a customer come in during breakfast who was willing to pay for Happy Meals to get the Beanies, even though she couldn’t get the food. I heard others were buying the meals and just throwing the food out. I was buying the Happy Meals too, but jeez, I ate the food!

the point is duke wasn’t arrested.

They’re just like two peas in a pot.

TrumpCorp.will try to pay their just-imposed fine withbaseball card collectibles——but Choo Choo Coleman turns out to be not so valuable

What it means is that if Zeke had saved some of that money, he could bribe Duke and be free in minutes.

Wack him again!

Zeke will squeal to get a lighter sentence

As I seem to recall, some those had Alex’s name on them. Bad Zeke. Very bad.

Quis custodiet…

Oh OK. Asked and answered.

They both are sleaze balls, but Duke is the smarter of the two.