…and Mark, you are no Chuck Norris…  So rather than stare down the angry beast and make it high-tail out of there… you let your fear show and choose to run… Hoping that What? That “Old Rex the Grizzly” will help you out?  Brilliant, Mark.  What on earth have you ever done for Rex, and you may be giving that Old Bear way too much credit…

Got to hand it to James Allen…  Mark has become a much deeper character under his pen than he ever was under the doddering Dodd and Elrod…  and while in the past every strip would have the obligatory, throw-away nature shot, Nature is now featured, front and center, made part of the plot, and drawn with the danger and ferocity that it deserves!  Oh my!  Look at the ruby red tongue and saliva dripping from the pursuing beast…  Hopefully Mark can maintain a 20 MPH pace all the way to the bluff, otherwise he’s toast!