A dislocated shoulder, an angry bear, a twisted ankle — what could possibly be worse for ol’ Mark?

Oh.

Yeah.

Rex Morgan, M.D.

Oh, well…

We all know that six weekdays of Apt. 3-G are rehashed into the Sunday edition. Fine. Sometimes cryptic, for lack of space, but usually not, as the plot generally has the velocity of mayonnaise.  Dried-up mayonnaise.

But don’t cut’n’paste the rehash onto new backgrounds and pretend its all new and shiny.  (And don’t leave me to wonder if the color monkeys have been handed blunt-tip safety scissors and given even more resposibilities.)

Fortunately, the Sunday nightmare ends and we’re back at Jack’s Happiness Falls Vet Clinic…

…and then someone has to step in to ruin it.

Remember the day-trip that Tommie is making to upstate New York to find a wildlife rehab center for her fawn?  And that the vet in Happiness Falls NY offers her a job (when last we saw Tommie, she was a licensed and practicing R.N./midwife)?

THREE WEEKS GOES BY!  It says that right in narration box!!!  I don’t know what’s more unsettling:  no one has seen Tommie in her place in NYC for nearly a month, or she’s wearing that same damned pink turtleneck that the fawn probably piddled on and that Tommie’s been mucking out stalls in for the last dozen days.  Ewwww.

Or.

Is it really Tommie?

Two Words:  So easily.

Two More Words: Hi, Mark!

Four More Words:  Yep.  So very easily.

Eleven more words:  Will there be anyone like Luann there to ridicule and deride?

Sometimes a whole strip doesn’t inspire me, but several do:

Even the next day!

But, hey! Or, even “But, hay!”…this might all work out.

And yet, Jeffy survives, moves on, and always stops to smell the roses…or the asphalt, or something.

Still, the old man isn’t as dumb as he looks…he’s still alive after Thel’s given birth to four melonheads!

…the work proposition from Jack, DVM, was a complete surprise. ‘Cuz vet assistants and nurses are so closely related (most likely the folks of Happiness Falls are desperately trying to find candidates so that the population can outbreed).

And all Spidey had to do was show JJ a few smoooooth moves…