The Doonesbury Nation

"Trudeau finds angles." --Jerry Seinfeld

While millions of pilgrims flock to upstate New York for the 25th anniversary of Woodstock, Zonker flashes back to the original (acid triage, the bummer tent, Hendrix eating his guitar) with memories made all the more poignant by the fact that they're hallucinatory. His response to this revelation: "Whoa! Do you suppose I wasn't at the moon landing either?"

While Zonk wasn't there, he is here, and here is surreal enough. Tobacco executives swearing under oath that smoking is as safe as eating Twinkies; Ollie North wrapping himself in a Confederate battle flag; and the president devolving into a flying waffle--who said the sixties had the corner on weirdness? As refreshing as a full pitcher of Kool-Aid, this mind-altering collection from G.B. Trudeau, Doonesbury Nation, is only the latest to pose the question: Is it real--or is it Doonesbury?

In this Doonesbury collection, Zonker is shocked to discover that he missed Woodstock the first time around, so he tries to make up for it by catching the sequel. Uncle Duke continues his ongoing mission to hook up with every suspicious character in the world by becoming a security adviser for Oliver North, a man almost certainly more sinning than sinned against. President Clinton gets his very own icon in a reader survey, with a waffle winning out over a flipping coin, and Mikes shocks his fellow Walden alums by voting Republican. But all of this is swept aside when Boopsie becomes an alternate juror in the O.J. Simpson circus. What will she wear? --Simon Leake