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Cherry shoots down Mark’s excuse in front of Rusty

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Oh my. I wasn’t around in 1946, but what I saw of early Mark Trail (and summarized on Mark Trail Confidential) was that the bear in question was, in fact, Cherry’s “pet” bear that Mark mistook for an attacking bear. And they weren’t bonding too much at first, until Mark handed over a pile of cash he got from winning a nature photo contest.

Now, is Cherry seriously pushing to have Rusty tag along with Mark to search a house filled with lions!? That sounds like grounds for a child endangerment rap.

And how could Mark justify taking Rusty along as his partner/backup? Sure, he could suggest to Bill Ellis that Rusty would function as a staked goat to lure the lions out of the way, perhaps. That puts both Cherry and Mark in the pokey for child endangerment, and Rusty in the hospital. Or the ground.

I dunno. It all sounds so weird. Maybe Mark and Cherry want to break free from their restrictive lifestyle and start anew, on their own…and in another country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States.

Cherry, will you just take Rusty to the zoo?

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The silliness continues. I wonder why Rivera continues to highlight Rusty’s adolescent exuberance? Sure, it’s nice to see a father take the time to treat a son’s fantasy seriously, but how does that advance this story? It’s as if Rivera decided to exploit this distraction in order to pad the storyline for a second week. By the way, padding was a good excuse in the 1800s when authors were paid based on word count. That helped result in such wordy novels as “The Three Musketeers“, “The Count of Monte Cristo“, and “Oliver Twist.”

Although there are various types of animal wranglers, I wonder if those people really do use the word “wrangle” like Mark does (panel 3): “Honey, I’d love to go to Dollar Tree with you, but Brenda has some new goats and I need to wrangle them.”