Robbie makes an excellent point, of course. None of the other kids showed up with their daddies (who all probably have stable jobs, anyway). Furthermore, the boys won’t be able to cuss or talk about girls with a parent along! But I covered this point yesterday (And that’s a pretty well-drawn Mark in panel 2).

I’m not sure that Rivera ever got around to naming all of the kids. The kid with the Moe haircut seen in panel 1 of yesterday’s strip is Ernie, son of Jeanette, who operates Planet Pancake. I think that the unnamed kid who says “Pfft”(behind Robbie) is selectively recalling events. The reason Mark saved them from the ‘gators is because he was responsible for putting them on the island with the ‘gators (cf January 2023). And there were no other adults around, anyway!

Finally, I hope you see the parallel drawn here with Rusty and Robbie in relation to Mark, right? That is to say, Mark and his own childhood nemesis (later turned grownup nemesis).