Let's face it, our favorite comic strip is frequently obscure or inconsistent, and key characters are sometimes left stranded for years. Long-suffering readers are within their rights to demand some full explanations. Each week a trusted Town Hall intern will harvest only the best questions e-mailed to us via the "Ask GBT" form, then forward them to the home office in Manhattan. Selected questions will be personally answered by G.B. Trudeau or one of his top aides, and immediately posted. As each new Q&A is added, the previous one will be archived, thus slowly building a remarkable primary source for scholars in the years ahead.

		B.D. and Mark seem to have a strained relationship. The source of this conflict must be way back, since I have no recollection of the two having issues. When did it happen? What was its root? -- Mike Irwin, Sequim, WA
		Football hero B.D. and campus radical Mark banged heads from the start, different by nature and in principle. Though they met in the Walden dorms and went on to become habitues of Walden Commune, their interactions during the first five years of the strip were only occasional -- and usually confrontational. Here's a look back. Click here to submit an FAQ to GBT

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