A public service for folks who just don’t cotton to moustachioed, 30-something men as “juvenile delinquents.” (It’s not like that ‘s the only thing we have to suspend our disbelief for in Mark Trail…)
…it’s a LOT of fun! Many wonderful insights from the Comics Curmudgeon’s readership!
Child prodigy, kidnapped by bad guys, gets a message to Jungle Patrol.
Child prodigy, rescued by the Ghost-Who-Causes-Quite-A-Bit-of-Property-Damage, eagerly looks forward to returning to his college campus.
Child prodigy ends up at Skull Cave, where he is encouraged to wear a diaper and learn how to box with Kit, Jr.
Child prodigy sends a message to the bad guys, promising them anything for them to rescue him.
To say nothing of the sandwich…
What could be more fun than “doing a Mark Trail” (or more accurately, “doing a crazed survivalist hiding out in Lost Forest”) to 9 Chickweed Lane‘s most unlikeable character?
This might be the Northern equivalent of a pinata party, come to think of it.
Fleas are apparently not uncommon in the Sunday Mark Trail “Let’s Look at Nature” strips. The previous one, complete with Mark chasing Andy to give him a bath, was in August 2008…only three years ago!
Rather than get all testy with a kinda, sorta rerun, I think the strip can be reworked with the thrilling current weekday plot of the Hunt for Red October John Thrasher; he’s a war veteran, special-ops, who’s retreated from “civilization.” He’s a match for Mark’s woodsy ways, and for Andy’s, too. It’s a good thing that Rusty and Sassy didn’t come along — they’d be dead in a hail of poisoned darts and avalanches of boulders by now.
…when a little “backwoods learnin'” will come in handy!
Let’s see, Mary has pretty much been written out of her own strip while Dr. Drew (Manwhore!) romances Nurse Liza (Techno-Addict!), soon to be dismissed from Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Memorial Hospital…Mark is heading off to the high woods to meet with Ted Kaczynski a troubled vet…and a Plugger waits for his inevitable death.
Happy Tuesday, folks!
…with the weather so nice, we should all take a note from a Certain You Know Who’s book and Enjoy Nature!
(watch out for the Rabbit Raisins, though)
Yes, boys and girls, it looks like Mark Trail is going off on another adventure! (How does this hard-working man every have time to Enjoy Nature?) It might be right here in Lost Forest as an ol’ friend, Doctor Thrasher, has a personal problem with his “son John.”
Oh, really?
I think the Comics Curmudgeon‘s contributor Karmann is closer to the mark:
I think so, too:
Here we are, back in Lost Forest, tying up a few loose ends of Mark’s thrilling diamond ‘n’ drug smuggling double!
I wonder what Rusty has to say about all this “mushy stuff!”?
Yeah, I kind of guessed that…