Really, not enough cold water? Does the Trail family maintain refrigerated cisterns!? Oy vey, if this week isn’t going to progress beyond tiresome punchlines, all I can do is hope that Bill Ellis calls tomorrow so Mark can get back on the job as quickly as possible. Even then, this home interlude could stretch to two weeks, since Jules Rivera likes to start stories on Mondays.

Art Dept. Yesterday’s first panel was a well-planed composition. Today’s panel 1 is a compositional mess. The hummingbird should have been placed more to the right, with the cabin below and to the left, so they don’t overlap. In fact, Rivera should have made this a 3-panel format,like yesterday. She could still have easily consolidated panels 2 and 3 into one and killed two birds with one panel.

Alas, what’s with the drawing of that Ruby-throated hummingbird? Is it actually gliding!? Hummingbird wings are a blur, unless captured by high-speed photography, which makes for fake-looking drawing. Well, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this bird will be the next Sunday topic. Mark last talked about hummingbirds on April 21, 2024.