Today is something of a recap of the Friday and Saturday strips. Fair enough, I suppose. It’s still funny that today’s action actually takes place between panels 3 and 4 of Saturday’s strip. Sharp-eyed readers (which should be most of you) will note that last Saturday, Mark was already heading to the doorway in the clothing we see Mark putting on today.
Do we see another unnecessary narration box in panel 1? It certainly is formal: “catch up with Rusty” would be better, right? I mean, we all know that Rusty is Mark’s son.
Instead of the narration box, Mark’s verbal statements in today’s panels better explain the situation. In addition, and perhaps totally irrelevant, we see another change of outside lighting, as Mark now casts a shadow, but from a full moon, not from some ambiguous source that Rusty experienced.
Nevertheless, this adventure progresses and that’s good.
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Why didn’t Mark say anything to Rusty? Didn’t want to wake Cherry?
How did Rusty disappear so quickly? Teleportation?
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Indeed. I was going to put my money on an alien abduction ray, but I really don’t think Rivera’s going to go that way, darn it. Of course, in order to create drama and suspense, comic strips—like movies—have to make people do stupid things they would not normally do in real life, like searching for a killer on your own with only a flashlight, tripping on an invisible tree root when running away from the killer, or maybe hiding out in a buzz saw shed.
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