I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised that Cliff is the one that has to keep Mark focused. After all, he’s the guy who held Mark’s hand in the doomed Men’s Survival Fishing camp (“For Men Only”) when Mark was feeling like a failure. Why is it that Jules Rivera seems to take delight in portraying Mark as a distracted hick, unable to figure things out and unable to even get good sartorial advice?

And how is it that only Cliff knows the Olympic events schedule? Weren’t they all briefed ahead of time? Didn’t Mark and Cliff even discuss their game strategy? At least he knows how to deliver a funny line. This is sure one odd Olympics. Perhaps you are wondering: Is this Woodsman Olympics really the point of this story? Maybe Mark intuited something more important, after all. Maybe Tad Crass is the nexus. Maybe he has been hawking a phony “How to Win the Woodsman Olympics” book. And maybe Connor—not the sharpest axe in the logging camp—bought Tad’s book and read it.

Art Dept. Don’t look too closely at the art today, especially Cliff in panel 2 … no, don’t do it. Just focus on the text. SO STOP! I told you to NOT LOOK TOO CLOSELY…..ah, you did it, anyway. What now!? You want me to explain what that bubble portrait of Mark is about in panel 3!? Heck, just ask Cliff. He knows everything!