I think James Allen dislikes drawing Rusty as much as most of us dislike seeking hi ever-morphing features!  Other that the always-slow-roll of the unfolding story line, what else would explain the fact that we hardly ever see him??

Ol’ Doc Davis has a crush on the local School Marm?  That’s creepy!  Depending on her age, I suppose… Are school teachers in the Lost Forest School District allowed to date??  Have adult relationships??  Until the second Word War, Teachers generally weren’t allowed to Marry, if they did they had to forfeit their job…  Assuming that Mark uses a cell phone now, let’s hope that the cultural norms in Northern Georgia have evolved to include Teachers marrying!

Apples on Pancakes?  Yum?  Maybe the kind that are baked and meant for pie?

Cherry is busy offering up her father in exchange for favorable treatment down at the Schoolhouse?  This disturbing on many, many levels!

And what’s with the disembodied laugh accompanying Mark in the enter panel?  The laughing certainly doesn’t match the look of shock and dismay on his face!!  But again, more new expressions to try out!  I hope he doesn’t hurt himself!!

No more Stonewall Mark it would seem.

While the head shot of Cherry is right out of clip-art central, the two shots of Mark have his face all screwed up and contorted…  expressing emotion, irony, intrigue.  How odd.

Pacing, as we see, is slow here… we’ll know what the Trails are up to in the next week or two, but certainly no sooner!

You’ll convince yourselves eventually.  Not that you have shown an ounce of concern over Rusty’s welfare, other than rescuing him from his abusive/ alcoholic father… from what we can tell, he’s kept locked in his room until it’s time for his appearances…

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But anyway, off they go to Meh-Hee-Cho!  Let’s see what kind of trouble they can get into!!

Or vice versa…

Edumacational trip, huh?  That’s almost as good as saying you are going on a Cruise, or Disney World for that matter…

But I am having trouble remembering whether Mark made a promise… I think he did…  Yup!  Man of his word!!

Off to Mexico we go!  Won’t Dirty be disappointed when he arrives at Lost Forest only to see them gone!

Nurse Bambi?

Nope.

Read the damn paper and see the h*ll is going on this world…

I am surprised that a physical Newspaper can make its way to the stoop of Lost Forest.  Heck, Ol’ Doc might have to drive into town, or at least to the end of the long driveway…