“My fiancée runs…” may be more accurate than Happy realizes. This story is getting deliciously nutty. Why are the police here? Did Mark call them in, as well? Why would cops show up at an animal medical emergency? I half expected that panel 2 was a setup for some kind of bad joke: “You’re saying a gorilla passed out during your wedding?”, “Yes”, “I see. Somebody on your fiancée’s side of the family, Sir?”

In any event, it seems like the gorillas are off to be examined at the animal hospital. It’s possible Mark went along, but we’ll have to see if he shows up tomorrow. Otherwise, our story has moved along as we all suspected:  Once Gail saw that she couldn’t get the Trails away from the gorillas or complete the wedding to help secure what she thought was a big financial payout, she decided to cut her losses and split town with her son, Guyler. Just a presumption.  Will the cops try to put the arm on Happy if Gail has truly fled?

Art Dept. Panel 4 holds some interest. An opossum (not a possum!) takes center stage and has been drawn freehand, by Jules Rivera. Its fur is defined by a series of individual lines that are  mirrored in other locations of the panel, including the inconsistent rays of the setting sun framing Happy and the investigating cop. The repetition of these short, adjacent lines provides a continuity of texture designed to give a cohesiveness to the picture. This is the kind of hard-hitting, high-quality analysis you won’t get in other comic strip analysis web sites!