Did I oversleep again and miss a day? I could have sworn that yesterday we saw Tess ripping into Shania, Reba, and Mark. All of a sudden, Tess is playing nice, with no hint of animosity. Maybe it’s because her photographer has also suddenly arrived on the scene. Repeating a common visual composition, Rivera shows Tess and the photographer standing in the foreground (in front of Mark, Reba, and Shania). But they look backwards at the trio while still facing us. The trio in the background line up, side by side, as if on inspection. It’s as if they are actors whose contracts stipulate that they must always be filmed in full view, never overlapping.

Again, I’m confused on geography. Tess talks about having to “stay” in place, as if they are already at the camping grounds, rather than still at the manse. Speaking of which, where is Jess? He’s been absent all week, though he was supposed to be coming along. Perhaps he picked up and brought Venus Verité along, and now he’s somewhere else parking his car.

A point of weather depiction here: I can totally get behind the “overcast” look in panel 1, with the halftone applied across the upper sky. Very effective.