Well, if you’ve followed any of my posts this week, you may as well just skip to the Sunday strip, below. Otherwise, here goes:

Mark and Cherry, after driving to the Lost Forest Jailhouse and haranguing Rick the Bipolar Poacher and ex-beau of Cherry’s sister, Peach, decided to go on another one of their cherished nature walks. 

This one lasted most of the week (in our time, not theirs). Each day favored a different animal vignette for them to gush over, and I suppose we were invited to gush, as well.  The problem was that none of the depictions seemed especially gushable to me. Your mileage may vary, as they say. As Mark relished the idea of getting away from technology for a while, he faced the predictable consequences of a charging phone flush with left calls to answer on their return to the cabin. And wasn’t Mark surprised! Were you?

One of the featured nature walk creatures was this stag beetle. So we get some of the beetle’s lifestyle and personal likes. On the other hand … 

I thought that Rivera had realized the importance of really focusing on the creature-of-the-week by minimizing the appearance of Mark and his pointless puns, as she did last week. Well, call me Mr. Naive. Go ahead; I deserve it! Once again, it’s hard to distinguish what is important here, as the first thing I see is Mark commenting in almost every panel. I mean, honestly, Jules! Aren’t the narration boxes enough!?