Okay, so the fight continues over the Holly-Peach business deal. This is all fine from a plot position, though the dialog is sometimes confusing. Peach’s accusation in panel 1 is an all-too-true claim and a sad comment on the state of visual evidence. It reminds me of times when Communist Russia manually manipulated official photos to erase the image of an official who had been permanently removed, as if they never existed. Here, Peach is making the opposite claim.

But Peach’s statements aren’t always on point, like when she claims (panel 3) she got a contract “fair and square.” Not sure what that has to do with the argument, but it’s her rationale. Olive could have offered once again to take her, but she did not. Probably because Jules Rivera needed a hook to keep the opposition between the sisters continuing until it eventually gets resolved through a later event.

Art Dept. We could have a field day lining up all of the different faces that Cherry has owned over the  years Rivera has been drawing the strip. Same for Mark. There are several possible reasons for this, one being less of a desire for exactitude than for the importance of expression. Another reason is one that happens to almost all longer-term comic strips, is that the cartoonist’s understanding and expectation of the character changes over time, resulting in reshaping a character’s appearance.  Same thing for Mark.