I take back most of what I wrote to Mark the Contrarian Commenter in a comment on yesterday’s strip. This is troubling, from the cut-and-pasted Bunny in panel 1, to the simplistic compositions, to the suddenly ten-years-younger-looking Olive, whose head changes in every panel and whose Mohawk keeps switching sides (kudos to Be Ware of Eve Hill) every day. Maybe it’s the wind?

And what has Olive Pitt turned into? From an edgy, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners gal, she is now somebody who wears bunny slippers and thinks the Grungey Boys may really be a menace. This reminds me of the transformation of Diana Daggers, from impulsive and threatening bodyguard persona for Professor Bee Sharp to the hapless and ineffective nobody she has become.

What is going on!? It certainly does not even qualify as satire or parody. You would be forgiven for thinking that a guy was handling this strip.

Does Rivera think that Mark must be the only person in the strip capable of solving problems and facing down bullies, thugs, and cons? Does everybody here have to look weak to make Mark look strong? And does Rivera have to keep trying to own the Trailheads?

Oh, and the storyline? We’ll get back to it if and when it shows up.