Yes, indeed, readers! Just what would Olive Pitt do in Mark’s place? I think if the hunting situation was the same, but with Olive in the tree, she would clean Tess’s clock after her cheap stunt. The razorback would have company in the back of the truck on the way back.

All that is to say, What’s going on here today? Jess just contradicted what Tess told Mark about the shooting. Is Jess saying that Tess potted that shot near Mark just for fun, so he should just man-up and move on? Or does Jess suggest that Tess’s priorities were perfectly in order when she chose to take a shot at Mark before shooting the hog bearing down on her friend?

I suppose we could interpret this dialog exchange as Rivera promoting Jess as an empty-headed good ol’ boy parody of Texans and hunters. Well, maybe, until we read Rivera’s closing text box: “Don’t mess with Texas!” Now, I’m a tad confused: Is Rivera taking Jess’s side and putting Mark in his place? Is she continuing the parody of Jess by damning him with faint praise? Or is Rivera just trying to be cute with her rhyming, but remaining oblivious to the subtext?

I hope we find out before the Giant Armadillo from Space in panel 4 decides to crush the house and eat Tess, Jess, and Mark for dinner.