Rocket Raccoon is apparently aghast, presumably at the totally slack safety standards that allowed this stupidity to occur.

But speaking of logic (or thinking about it), how come Bear-Man #1 is not coming to help Bear-Man #2? How come Rita and Skeezer are still AWOL?

Well, maybe the Rocket Raccoon reacts to the textual content.

I think we can all agree that the dialog and most of the narration today is weak, like a high school student trying to learn how to use similes and metaphors. Take the dialog in panel 2. The original “Wolf in sheep’s clothing” idiom was meant to suggest a person blending in with the crowd, only pretending to be like them. The idiom refers to a person’s duplicitous nature. But there is no “blending into the crowd” here, because everybody is not a bear or dressed in bear costumes. The bear-person is not pretending to be part of the crew, either. So this mixed-metaphor fails. And do mother bears really grab their young with their paws and yank them backwards? Like, I am no biologist, but I would bet not. More than likely, I think the mother would nudge the cub with her head (or mouth) or just swat little Boo-Boo into the closest bush.

I forget whether it was Mark the Contrarian or Daniel who used to complain about Rivera inserting narration boxes to describe the obvious (i.e. panels 3 and 4), but I agree.

Art Dept: I was surprised that nobody brought up the shape-shifting manatee truck, which seemed to change its size. Check out yesterday’s strip and compare panel 1 to panel 4. This is definitely not a case of foreshortening. Otherwise, it is not well-executed when you see that the truck in panel 1 is drawn at a more acute angle than in panel 4. I find no graphic reason for this abrupt resizing.