Now, exactly how did Diana and Mark arrive at Tad Crass’s Plainsight, Inc.? Perhaps in a car left back at the company HQ … where the fire is!

I might be presumptive, but I’m pretty sure Artemis knows the way home on her own, as most horses will. So a better use of Mark’s and Diana’s time might be saving their own transportation. I wonder if anybody called the fire department?

But hat’s off to Artemis, at least, for showing Diana and Mark where the large secret stone arch gateway exit was located. There are probably several readers who were hoping they would not find the exit. Shame on them! :) Newspaper is pretty flammable, and there is the danger that this wildfire could spread to other comic strips.

In fact, I seem to recall a similar incident in Pearls Before Swine, where Rat threw a lantern at Pig, who ducked. The lamp crossed over and crashed into the Gasoline Alley strip setting fire to several automobiles, which in turn spread their flames into other legacy strips, including BC, Mary Worth, Peanuts, and Garfield. Unfortunately, they were all fire-resistant and survived. They still get published.