“Hi, I’m Mark the Journalist” Really!? What happened to “Hi, I’m Mark Trail”? Has Mark’s reputation plummeted so much that he is forced to identify himself in relation to a magazine for teenage girls? In Texas!?

Mark can sure be a real yenta. Why is he so concerned about Jess being husband number five or six? I mean, who cares!? If Mark was really concerned about Jess, wouldn’t he be more interested whether Jess knows about Tess’s corrupt past?

While I’m on this subject, would a bunch of teenage girls really be interested in women who hunt wild pigs? Just wondering how this topic got linked to Teen Girl Sparkle, rather than one of the other 16 magazines in Bill Ellis’s publishing empire. Perhaps Jules Rivera is being lazy or just can’t afford to spend more time on the strip. She came up with the concept of Mark working for different magazines when she took over the strip in 2020, but has more less abandoned that plot device, without really exploring the possibilities.