Okay, maybe I was too optimistic when I saw that “The Forest needs a hero!” oath roaring out of Rusty’s mouth a few days ago. Alas, Rusty is not Robin, the Boy Wonder or Bilbo Baggins; just an 11 year-old kid with a vivid imagination and a developing sense of right and wrong. It’s not a bad combination to have. But he doesn’t have the experience or maturity to know what to do with it. It’s not a fault. He’s trying.

But I don’t think we can look forward to Rusty creating clever traps in the forest like Macaulay Culkin did in Home Alone, playing the incredibly inventive kid, Kevin, who could put together funny traps and pratfalls faster than Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland could assemble a fully decked out stage show from items found in a barn. Over the weekend.

One question on somebody’s mind out there is likely to be “Will the Grungey boys act even stupider than Rusty thinks, and try to hold their lawnmower races on wet, sloppy ground?” My response would be “Have you ever seen a demolition derby?”

Extra: Have you been “following” or “enduring” the on-again, off-again, on-again adventure strip “Mara Llave: Keeper of Time“? Well, seems like Mara ran out of time, as the strip has disappeared from the Comics Kingdom web site, after 3 years of erratic submissions, dropped storylines, and ever-changing art styles. Too bad, as the premise was interesting, though a clear offshoot of Dr. Who.