This is an adventure strip, not a documentary, so I’m always willing to extend some degree of latitude in such mundane things as logic, judgement, and actions. But really, now. Are the railroad and the senator running a smear campaign against Mark and Happy? Hard to say. Do they even know their names? Does anybody else?

Clearly, Rivera portrays the state senator as a stereotypical reactive, “say nothing” politician. In his defense,  he couldn’t know very much, anyway, given that the accident occurred the day before. Meanwhile, the Duck Duck Goose shipping company is publicly spouting the usual misinformation that companies do when trying to position themselves as an innocent party. But I think Mark and Happy have yet to talk to any railroad managers or government inspectors.

So it didn’t help that Mark and Happy barged into a dog-and-pony press conference to try and get answers from a politician, rather than an expert. And it didn’t help that Mark and Happy became belligerent, physical, and need I state it, unprofessional? Mark and Happy sound more like characters on The X Files or Hannity. “Got too close”, huh? Will “the deep state” send out assassins to shut them up, like in the Bourne Legacy?

C’mon, guys! Why haven’t you started working social media and news sites, instead of standing around a campfire in the country, affirming each other’s grievances? Why haven’t you been conducting online research? Why haven’t you bothered to talk with other journalists? In short, why haven’t you two been acting like professional journalists?