What new friends, Mark: The cops who pursued you? The state senator you had arrested? The wildebeest?

And is this going to be a week-long epilog? I hope that Mark updates Cherry on the payoff of his muscle car livestream exposé. Did his site jump to 1,000 followers yet? I never quite figured out how Mark’s livestream was supposed to generate increased viewership, based on his limited reputation and small online presence. I was shocked that Senator Smalls found out about it and listened. Amazing! Did Mark stick around to learn what really happened with the train explosion, rather than depend on the testimony of Rex Scorpius? Well, this was really Happy’s idea in the first place, and Mark was not on assignment. So he can get a pass. This time.

Art Dept: Can’t say that I like that background in panel 1. Rather than a typically smooth gradation from light to dark, it looks like Rivera placed strips of increasingly dark values side by side, as if this was a color theory class assignment. But check out the B&W newspaper version of panel 1:  The striping effect we see in color is less noticeable in black & white. Of course, newsprint has low resolution, which helps smooth the transition. But that is accidental, as Rivera clearly relies on color.