This is another “one of those days” when you have to wonder who is drawing the strip. Rivera’s style is already pretty stylized and expressionistic. However, what we see here is a different order, a different style in some respects.

Even some of our popular critics will have to admit the drawings of Cherry look like somebody trying to draw like Jules Rivera and not pulling it off. Each attempt at Cherry is more garish than the previous one. About the only thing that comes off looking normal is Rusty in panels 3 and 4. However, I don’t think we’ve seen such a highly motivated, aggressive Rusty before.

Rusty may sound like a cheap action movie trailer in panel 4, but I’m okay with that, if he can deliver the goods. So far, he hasn’t shown much ability in that department, but I’m going to give him the benefit of a doubt. Maybe Rusty has found his calling and will try to do what the hapless and hopeless Ranger Shaw cannot do.