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Burned!

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Starting with a reprise from last week, Jules Rivera changes her camera angle to reveal Tess Tigress standing behind the trio, apparently using the benefit of camouflage to assist with her eavesdropping. Never mind that Rivera forgot to apply the camo pattern to Tess’s suit in panel 1. Still, it provides a plausible cover for her Big Reveal as she lowers the boom.

But what’s going on in panel 3? Rivera revamps one of her more interesting compositions: putting the primary characters in the background in order to focus on something outside of their vision and awareness.  Sometimes the foreground subject is completely irrelevant. In this case, it’s a herd of razorbacks standing off to the side! Looks like the Hog-Hunting Heroines can avoid the possible flood and save some time and trouble by hunting on Jess and Tess’s property!

But where did the storm clouds go?

Art Dept. Originally, Rivera tended to eschew shading, hatching, and similar techniques that emphasize volume, light-and-dark, or thematic atmosphere. A few years ago, she got tired of drawing Mark’s facial stubble and substituted halftone (e.g. ben-day dots) shading. Since then, she has slowly expanded the technique to other parts of the drawing, where we now begin to see a sort of textured look to the panels, replacing the stark linearity of her earlier approach.

Markey! Markey! Markey! It’s always about Markey!

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Mark is already contradicting cartoonist Jules Rivera’s comment in panel 1 about “following” the Hog-Hunting Heroines. So it’s all about Mark today, as the three women he is shadowing fade into a meaningless background, and Mark’s attention is taken up by three wild hogs. I’m not sure about the depth of field or perspective in panel 3, as the hogs looks about as tall as ponies. But isn’t it interesting how Rivera framed the hogs with those tree trunks!?

So who is Mark talking to, if he is more or less alone? Normally, a character in this situation would think his dialog inside of a thought balloon, but Rivera rarely uses them.

Since wild hogs can run up to 25 mph (40 kmph), I’d think Mark would want to stand behind the women with the guns. What I don’t get is why waste a day posting filler material like this, since it does nothing to move the story along or expand on the subject. But perhaps today is meant to be a setup where the women step up tomorrow to save Mark.

Mark Trail’s Slang Seminar: “Heckin’ fast” seems to be a popular phrase on social media among the younger set, and it means what you probably think it means. Of course, it might be obsolete by the time you read this. Still, the term is more specific than “6 7.” Now you can start using it, too, and risk sounding like a heckin’ skibidi toilet trying to be utd.

Why, Mark Trail…How young you look! What’s your secret?

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So, what is Mark’s secret of youth? I gather it’s shaving.

I wonder how disappointed or even angry Cherry will be when she learns that she didn’t really have to shoot any animals, after all. Except maybe with a camera. Anyway, here we go with another round of disconnected dialogs. I also think Jules Rivera really needs to practice more with her narration boxes: “Hog-Hunting Hootenanny”!? Talk about an alliterative non-sequitur…. Rivera could at least have brought the phrase into the 1960s with “Hog-Hunting Hullaballoo!” Or, if she is looking at cute alliterative phrases that more sense, how about “It’s Hog-Hunting Harvest!”, “It’s Hog-Hunting Heaven!”, or even “It’s a Hog-Hunting Halidom!”

Being Saturday, we once again come to the issue of whether we get back to a week of Cherry and Holly Folly, or continue following Mark and the Three Fates. On the other hand, does it matter?