AND HE CALLED HOME!
AND RUSTY ANSWERED THE PHONE!
AND THEN RUSTY TOLD EVERYONE THAT MARK WAS ALIVE!
AND THEN RUSTY TOLD EVERYONE THAT MARK WAS COMING HOME!
~whew!~
What more needs to be said?
…Lost Forest? Seabreeze Fishin’ Camp? The Big City? Oh, heck, who cares?
Mark Trail makes a desperate attempt to escape from La Isla de Druggie by flying a plane! Noble, yes, but it might help if his knowledge of aerodynamics included more than yelling at the single-prop…
I think Mark may still have some of that allergy medication in his system, but he knows what he knows!
Yay, pollen! If it weren’t for you, we could kiss a lot of things good-bye…apples…squash…hayfever…
And who better to talk about pollen and its distributors than Mark Trail himself?
After getting caught up in a spate of 9 Chickweed Lane snark, let’s see how things are going with the diamond-smuggling drug-smuggling fishing trip of the mortally-wounded slightly-grazed hale and hearty Mark Tail, and his exploits with Cherry Kelly Welly Senora Halter-top:
So you were shot in the head by a diamond smuggler…meh.
Now you’re being held captive by a woman who says the island is held in thrall by drug smugglers…double meh.
I think this whole thing is much more insidious:
I rarely mash anything with Dick Tracy (probably because I don’t read Dick Tracy on a regular basis). As the current writer and artist step down into well-earned retirement, it seems some of their creations have “abandoned ship,” so to speak, to other strips.
And it doesn’t stop with Mark Trail! Over in Santa Royale, Dawn Weston’s mirror (and/or mind) is playing tricks with her…looking in the mirror shows nothing like a vague reflection — I mean, the cartoonist used to at least pretend to render a reasonable reflected image.
Oh, I said “reasonable.” Dopey me! Carry on.
WHO is this mysterious woman?
WHY is she so intent on hiding Mark whereabouts?
WHEN will the Coast Guard decide to look for Mark again?
WHERE is this taking place?
WHAT the deuce is going on?
and
HOW do I make random words stop bolding?!
Tie-in time!
(Anyway, Mark Trail goes back far enough (and apparently is stuck in the late 50s/early 60s) that “Mark Trail vs. The Commie Threat” should’ve been a major story.)