Yikes! Indeed. Rivera must have a low opinion of her readers’ capacity to remember simple plots if she has to rehash yesterday’s installment in the first two panels of today’s strip. Talk about unnecessary story padding. See anything else kind of odd?

Rivera also continues to indulge her fascination for alliteration with that “trash trove” label Mark bellows out to Ranger Shaw in panel 3. So Shaw now thinks somebody is stealing and storing “trash” in the Lost Forest, albeit in a very haphazard manner. I think he’s way off base.

Art Dept.  The mouths keep getting weirder. What can you say about Mark’s yapper in panel 3? Is he, perhaps, now singing his dialog? And is Ranger Shaw so shocked in panel 4 that he has to yell? I don’t know what to tell you. The very close staging of the two dudes in panel 2 suggests to me Shaw delivers his clunky dialog in some kind of flat, monotone voice, as if there was a period between words.

What can we say about the layout of the scene in panel 1?