Continuing with yesterday’s surprise of Cherry and Mark running into each other at the hospital, today’s strip moves from Rom-Com dialog to Support Group blather. I swear, the expressions of Cherry and Mark in panel 1 look like Cherry caught Mark fooling around with somebody else. Her face does not say “glad to see you!” And Mark just looks kind of guilty.

Their jarring images are somewhat mollified in panel 2. Cherry still looks odd, perhaps from the difficulty Rivera had attempting to portray Cherry’s face seen from slightly behind her right shoulder. Tough to draw! Mark shouldn’t look too worried, though. Connor just has a finger fishhook injury, so we shouldn’t have to worry about a doctor coming out to report that the finger had to be amputated.

I’m curious how Mark’s storyline continues after the hospital. The class is in shambles. For some reason, Cliff decided to come along and hold Mark’s hand rather than take over the class so that the other two “campers” won’t have their entire day is ruined.