Wow! The tension has really been building in my absence…

Doesn’t the owner of the “trap” ever check his traps? Is this a DNR trap? A Poacher trap? One might think I’d remember how this story ends up, other than Andy be recued, of course… but this is all new to me, again…

There’s Doc Davis! Returned from the wood-shed or some such thing!
Fans of the strip know that Rusty’s face can take on frightening transmogrifications… that third panel is almost too much to look at… Way to soothe his fears, Mark!

DAYS pass… And so now it’s sinking in… using the past tense… <Andy> WAS so much part of our lives… Goodness! Mark, are you getting ready to bawl?