Hoo-boy! I didn’t see this one coming. I was prepared to dismiss the Wednesday strip as just more of the same. For the most part it is. But what was that BZZZ? 

Well we found out today. It seems that the so-called Grungy Boys must be riding electric lawnmowers in Lost Forest. After all, gas-powered mowers don’t buzz, right!? Does this make the dudes green? Well, it’s hard to call this a race when only one person is riding. 

Now, what’s with putting in the incompetent Grungy Boys once again as the vilains du jour? C’mon, Rivera! They are just wannabe 3 Stooges. Perhaps they are sufficiently “bad” for somebody of Rusty’s age and may just become the stock bad guys for his adventures.

Art Dept. When I first looked at Panel 1, I thought Rusty and Olive were looking down at elves because of the ridiculous disparity in proportions between them and the Grungy Boys. Ouch! Rivera could have chosen the viewpoint she employed in panel 3, where the same figures could have been depicted without the problematic proportional distortions.

But then I was amazed at how boneless the Grungy Boys are depicted! They look like the rubberized progeny of Gumby. It doesn’t help when they are also depicted as flat figures with no apparent volume.