I know; I just belatedly posted last week’s Sunday blog, and here I am posting the next one! Well, it’s been a somewhat chaotic time these past few weeks. As I’m back once again on the road Monday morning to return home, things may likely get a bit chaotic for a few more days. Please excuse the mess and try to stay with me! 😀 It might be easier for me to again collate several days into one post. We’ll see how things go.

Anyway, this past week Mark was picked up and driven to his assignment by Diana Daggers, who turns out to be the owner of the magazine that hired him for this job. Daggers admitted that she needed a “loose cannon” and Mark came immediately to mind. Frankly, that was my impression of her at one time. Dagger’s position on the wild horse controversy is clearly on the side of “wild horses” being as American as apple pie, and that corrupt businesses and government officials are deliberately mistreating and misrepresenting the horses for personal and commercial gain. Daggers wants Mark to push that angle in his investigation and subsequent article. This coincides with Mark’s own feelings, so these two should get along, right?

Here you are again with the jokes, Mark? You should stick to what you are good at. Er, I’ll get back to you on that. But I hear you write pretty good nature articles. Never seen one, though.

The 17-year cycle is not for all species of cicadas, and not all cicadas follow that exact pattern, as some of them appear annually. But a swarm of the periodic cicadas is probably something you want to avoid, especially walking or in a car.

Can’t say much about the title panel this week. I would have expected to see swarms of cicadas in the sky, spelling out Mark Trail. Today’s panel looks rather bland, compared to many of Rivera’s Sunday panels.