Let’s see, what happened this past week…? Nothing, really. Cherry spent the week quizzing Georgia about “colony collapse” as she was outside tending to the depleted beehives. Never mind that Georgia already informed Cherry about this some time ago and Mark just delivered his Sunday nature lesson about ravioli mites. Er, the Varroa mites, that is. I reckon all of that wasn’t enough for Rivera, so we spent another six days on it! And the week ended with an ominous phone call about Mark being “wanted by the police”, thus ending Cherry’s superhero fantasy of fighting the mites to save beehives and bees.

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“And that concludes the week, folks. Okay Dizzy, what are the stats (1-10) for this week?”

“Well, Pee Wee, after considering the content and the management’s overall decision-making, I give it the following:”

Story Development: 2 (the phone call)
Action: 0
Character Development: 2 (Georgia’s look of despair for bees or Cherry’s interrogation)
Ho-Hum Factor: 9

“Those are troubling numbers, Dizzy, but I hope that they can pull themselves up and salvage this storyline.”

“Well, we won’t begin to see the results for another two to three weeks, Pee Wee, as the strip will be returning to its main storyline, ‘On the lam with Mark Trail.'”

“Good grief!”

“Hey, you can’t say that, Pee Wee. It’s a slogan for a different cartoon character.”

“D’oh!”

“And that’s another one! Sorry, folks. And now a few words from our sponsor….”

Today’s Sunday Supplement should ruffle a few feathers, but in a good way. Rivera does not force the jokes (or puns) this time and the information is actually interesting. The title panel is cleverly designed (as is common). I think Rivera must have enjoyed doing this one. Coincidentally, my wife was telling me today about a murder of very large crows she saw across the street, but I missed them. And that’s about usual, as well.