Mark and the Cops

At last we've got some implications of violence, not just perverse sex.

Frolf Factor

Sam's dad likes to travel on dark trails.

Mark is Getting Busy

I think he suffers from priapism.
Click on the image if you want to know what he's saying, but I'm warning you: you aren't going to like it.

Sam managed to convince the conspirators

Maybe it's because she can suck the lead out of a pencil. And now we know where she gets it from.

Click on the image so you can read what they're saying.

Mark and Sam's Dad Comfort Each Other

Such manly men! They don't show their grief at her apparent loss.




Click on the picture to enlarge it so you can read the words!

Sam Stays Spunky

Then ends up bargaining for her life.

Party Time at Buzzard's

Now I'm thinking maybe there's a DieHard element to this. Or Sam is like that Russian nuke technician in Goldeneye, only this comic strip implies a lot more naughty stuff.

Come Not Between the Dragon and His Wrath

I don't trust that karate talk. Watch out for the roundhouse, Dad!

Buzzard's Billy Club

This plot development is really disgusting, but I like how Buzzard's language is getting more and more slurred and garbled. Look for him to speak completely phonetically and idiotically in future appearances.

This is Starting to remind me of Pulp Fiction, somehow

Or maybe Silence of the Lambs. Either way, it's really freaky.
If you haven't been reading Mark Trail -- first of all, shame on you; why not? -- you might not realize how wildly unmarked the dark trail is about to become for a few days. As we saw earlier when I dumped one of the villains in the landfill (oh that's going to come back and bite me in the butt again!), it's a whole new level of challenge when I'm doing stuff to the characters that isn't happening in Mark. It was a lot easier when I was just revising the word balloons with innuendoes and non-sequiturs (hah! I think I remembered how to spell it).