Tastes a bit like celery.

Well, I was wrong about the moose, but isn't this so much better?  Doesn't this really help to bring the whole life and death struggle that is the water shortage to life?  Yes.  Yes it does, even though Mark and Pop will probably show up in the nick of time to save her so she won't have to try to imitate Bear Grylls and kill the thing.  (Hmm, didn't think that I'd write about Bear twice in such a short period of time, or ever.)  What she needs to do is kick those shoes off and run.  After all, if you can outrun an alligator for 20-30 feet, you've got a good chance of surviving (but it's getting to that 20-30 feet that's the trick.)  And let this be a lesson to you all:  When you're going to go traipsing about the wilderness, wear sensible shoes.  I don't care how well the ones you're wearing go with your outfit.  If you can't get away, no one is going to see you to give you a compliment.  I'd also like to know just what it was that she tripped on, though I can understand if she tripped on air.  I do that all of the time.

But what does this alligator really mean?  It means that the forest animals are through playing nice and that they want to get rid of the Kelly, I mean, Shelly, problem once and for all.  That, or they have identified her as a pod person, in which case, for the good of humanity, she has to go.  I'd say that they stand a good chance of accomplishing their goal, but then I remember the impressionable youngsters who might be reading this comic and I begin to have my doubts.  (I also didn't realize that this story was taking place in an area where there were alligators.  I guess I always assumed that it was somewhere in the forested north.  Oh well, live and learn.)

And one last thing:  Where's her car?  I thought it was nearby, but apparently, "What...?" is the magic word used to teleport someone from relative safety into peril.  Just remember that the next time you're out in the wilderness and you won't get hurt.  (A lesson that Shelly may be learning too late, I'm afraid.)