Let’s all sit down and enjoy family dinner! Mark is still down in Florida. But where is Cherry’s dad, Doc Davis? Did he permanently move into his vet office? In the pre-Rivera period, Doc Davis was a standard fixture at home, like a wall painting or end table. But at least Doc was present and even talked from time to time. I suppose Rivera could invoke the usual “artistic license” of not having enough room in the panel to show Doc, or claim he finished dinner early and then retired, as some people do.

When we last saw the siblings, they were at the weekend farmers market. Peach’s ex-beau, Rick, showed up and tried to strong-arm her back to Florida. Really Big Brother Dirk (and stand-in for the absent Mark) intervened to send the bipolar former boyfriend on his way. Of course, he is not really leaving, so we’ll see him return fairly soon. It is that conflict between Rick and Peach that is the whole point of this adventure. Anybody want to predict how the story will end?