Mark ventures out into the swamp that he might or might not be too familiar with (and I'm going to have to go with not too familiar with since he had to ask a friend where a good place to camp would be) unarmed and without telling anyone where he was going. Mark, Mark, Mark. That is not responsible hiking/investigating. As an experienced woodsman you should know that you should always tell people where you're going and that you should also take a buddy along in case something happens. (No, the Jack
Elrod Ball does not count.) Proving my point, Stu manages to sneak up behind our hero and hit him with a club of some kind when Mark bends down to examine a pile of abandoned ground beef (I mean alligator, which again makes me question whether the group is after the meat or the skin and right now it's looking like the skin). This tells me that his action was premeditated because had Mark happened upon the poachers and been struck with something, I would have thought that it would have been that gun they've been firing. That club just tells me that Stu put some thought into what would be the best thing to use take down an adversary (unless he's been bludgeoning alligators with it, but then why would they have the gun?). Still, I don't know how hard he hit Mark since his club doesn't seem to have made a sound (maybe he picked up a piece of rotten wood by mistake).
Phil and Bob arrive on the scene and Bob once more shows that his heart really isn't into this poaching thing because he actually shows some concern for Mark's welfare. Stu, on the other hand, has put everything into this endeavor and will do whatever it takes not to be captured. (Though why he's so concerned about the fact that Mark is a wildlife man I have no idea. Maybe he's heard about the forest animals or the Jack
Elrod Ball or maybe he thinks that Mark has very powerful friends or maybe he truly fears finding out what The Law Of The Forest really means.) He also decides to let nature take its course and feed Mark to the very alligators that he wants to protect and that they want to skin (or harvest the meat of or whatever they decide to take next). Unfortunately, this plan may not work out since after seeing the alligator in the second panel, I just can't help but hear him tell Phil, Stu, and Bob, "Aw
jeez, guys. I just finished eating. Really, I couldn't eat another thing. You should have told me you were going to do that before I filled up on frogs. Sorry. Maybe next time, okay?" It looks like it's up to Rusty and Sassy to save the day. (Which means that Mark is doomed.)
Mark ventures out into the swamp that he might or might not be too familiar with (and I'm going to have to go with not too familiar with since he had to ask a friend where a good place to camp would be) unarmed and without telling anyone where he was going. Mark, Mark, Mark. That is not responsible hiking/investigating. As an experienced woodsman you should know that you should always tell people where you're going and that you should also take a buddy along in case something happens. (No, the Jack Elrod Ball does not count.) Proving my point, Stu manages to sneak up behind our hero and hit him with a club of some kind when Mark bends down to examine a pile of abandoned ground beef (I mean alligator, which again makes me question whether the group is after the meat or the skin and right now it's looking like the skin). This tells me that his action was premeditated because had Mark happened upon the poachers and been struck with something, I would have thought that it would have been that gun they've been firing. That club just tells me that Stu put some thought into what would be the best thing to use take down an adversary (unless he's been bludgeoning alligators with it, but then why would they have the gun?). Still, I don't know how hard he hit Mark since his club doesn't seem to have made a sound (maybe he picked up a piece of rotten wood by mistake).
Phil and Bob arrive on the scene and Bob once more shows that his heart really isn't into this poaching thing because he actually shows some concern for Mark's welfare. Stu, on the other hand, has put everything into this endeavor and will do whatever it takes not to be captured. (Though why he's so concerned about the fact that Mark is a wildlife man I have no idea. Maybe he's heard about the forest animals or the Jack Elrod Ball or maybe he thinks that Mark has very powerful friends or maybe he truly fears finding out what The Law Of The Forest really means.) He also decides to let nature take its course and feed Mark to the very alligators that he wants to protect and that they want to skin (or harvest the meat of or whatever they decide to take next). Unfortunately, this plan may not work out since after seeing the alligator in the second panel, I just can't help but hear him tell Phil, Stu, and Bob, "Aw jeez, guys. I just finished eating. Really, I couldn't eat another thing. You should have told me you were going to do that before I filled up on frogs. Sorry. Maybe next time, okay?" It looks like it's up to Rusty and Sassy to save the day. (Which means that Mark is doomed.)
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