Ol’ George “Cannot tell a lie” Washington lived in a time when conversing on an equal footing with persons of a different color, much less a woman, would almost never happen. And Washington certainly would not ask her “How was that for you?” But he’s dead and gone, so we can just move on.

Now, isn’t that’s a nice Monarch butterfly?! Also noteworthy: Jules Rivera managed to include the Green House in the back yard once again. What next, an interactive conversation with Ralph the Rat Snake? On the other hand, Mark is talking about a rescue disaster as if it was an amusement park ride or a hot date (panel 1).

However, Diana Daggers has a point: Why is Mark calling her weeks after the event? Surely they had time to a postmortem or victory dinner by now. What is Mark up to, besides not soliciting work from Bill Ellis?