From the volume of responses to my closing questions yesterday, it looks like I am either right or I am wrong in my interpretation from yesterday. Perhaps I’ll leave it to History to make that judgement. But for now, I’m going with being right.
Exactly how does Mark know that this senator has actually been “soft” on DDG? And in what ways? I could probably have just copied yesterday’s text and pasted it here. This is all totally absurd, including Rex’s Tardis model of a Trans Am/Firebird.
Anyway, if this is such a serious situation as the first three panels suggest, why does Rivera insist upon concluding with Mark smugly delivering one of his usual, bad Sunday jokes and changing the mood?
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I’d love to answer your question, but I’m lost. How does the presence of a wildebeest prove the senator took a bribe? How is Mark going to prove DDG gave the wildebeest to the senator? Is there some kind of paper trail? Are wildebeests worth a lot of money? Is owning a wildebeest even legal? Where did DDG even get a wildebeest? Is DDG illegally acquiring wild animals?
The back seat of that Trans Am is ridiculous. It looks like they could hold a square dance back there. I knew someone who had a 1978 Trans Am. You might be able to comfortably seat two small children in the back.
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Sounds like you agree that Rivera seems to be driving this strip into a direction that continues to make less and less sense. But will this emotion-driven activism become a new norm for Mark and the strip?
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First Mark and Happy barge into a press conference, throwing unfounded accusations left and right. Then they beat up some cops. Now they’re going to trespass and possibly break and enter into the senator’s property. This is getting ridiculous. What’s next? Holding the senator hostage at gunpoint?
I hope this is not the new norm. I don’t like it at all.
Typical Mark Trail Reader: “On second thought, let’s not read Jules Rivera’s ‘Mark Trail’. Tis a silly comic strip.”
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Ah, a Python fan! Well done.
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