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.”