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I continued work on the current iteration through the dataset of my Doonesbury Navigator project through the beginning of June 1972 today, encompassing B.D.'s return from military service in Vietnam. If I manage to do at least four weeks of strips tomorrow, that will put me more than halfway through the year before Diablo III consumes my life.
Concurrently with my recent work on the Navigator project, I've also been reading through Doonesbury strips from the early 2000's, following a comment I wrote in my "Doonesbury is Relevant" hobby on Reddit. In my comment, I advised a reader who claimed interest in the comic strip but was unwilling to slog through its forty-year backlog to choose a cultural or political milestone he or she lived through... and start reading the strip about three weeks after that date, when lead-times and narrative imperatives allowed the strip to address it. I used the 9/11 Terror Attacks as an example, and felt obliged to start reading there myself.
This evening, after a suspiciously long string of reprints, I reached a threshold I had long anticipated: April 19, 2004, the start of one of the best storylines the strip had ever seen, in which the Iraq War extracts a huge penalty from its most ardent proponent among the major characters.