Snark It Up, FuzzBall!

..at least until Mark’s editor from Wilderness & Wildlife, or Woozy & Weird, or Whatever the Hell It Is, Bill, calls him. Can it be that there’s a hot new assignment for Mark, when he’s been home for only a few days? What’ll Cherry do without him? And what about Rusty? AND WHAT ABOUT THE MAMA COUGAR???

Heck, maybe Mark might give this assignment a pass!

Hmmm. Looks like Mark’s gonna have a lot of convincing…

Mark can hardly catch a break…Cherry really rubs it in, that remedial Rusty does very well reading snarky comments about the comic strips, up to and including Mark’s own strips! How’s that for respect?!??

Poor Mark! To come home, only to have a cougar squatting on the front porch AND discovering that Rusty is smart (sort of) enough to read the comics. Will the horror never end?

…when you come home from a business trip…or even a vacation!…and wish you could sit back and relax….

….and you don’t even know where Rusty is.

(There was all sorts of neat action with an ol’ grizzly and a mama cougar and her baby while Mark was coming home from Arizona, too!)

And I think I forgot to welcome Mark home!

…one of those days, and sometimes you can’t get away from them.

(But sometimes it’s kind cute….)

Mark hasn’t been shot, so that’s good. So Doc and Leola are still fine, great…

…let’s go home, if there aren’t any more animals.

…because even the Moonpie Saloon and Pizza Joint has standards, or at least closing hours. What’s a young couple to do?

…we’ll just stand by here quietly, and you can reminisce about glurgy old 60s anti-war songs.

Deep in an abandoned gold mine, Mark and Doc and Leola and JJ actually FIND a locked chest!! After Mark waylays the impertinent lock, Doc opens the chest…

As if Mark’s Fists o’ Justice weren’t enough on Thursday! The Adventure in the Chiricahuas continues! Who would’ve thought it possible?!??