If old readers are dying off, try to attract younger readers, such as primary school-age kids, with puns.

Meeting up with friends at Planet Pancake—where everybody knows your order—is the kind of repetitious activity that seems reasonable, unlike Mark going on different assignments to different places in the country, but still dealing with the same oddballs.

We haven’t seen Georgia and her “Underground Black Rose Garden Club” members for about a year and a half, so it will be interesting to see what comes out of this reunion. I just hope it does not involve anybody connected with the Sunny Soleil Society, or Honest Ernest. They are Cherry’s version of Mark’s constant nemeses, the Crypto Bros and “Professor” Bee Sharp.