28th
I'm Back, and I Like Another Thing: Mark Trail's Molly the Bear Saga!
I used to read the comics everyday. Even the shittiest ones (Is there still a shittiness gradient for comics? Have we still not come to terms with the fact that all syndicated comics are shitty and that we ought to just do away with the whole thing? Would I still be incredibly upset if these musings, no matter how rational, were made manifest? The only one of those questions I can answer is the last one, and the answer is yes.) That means I read Spider-man, Gil Thorpe, Apartment 3G, and Mark Trail. Does anyone else remember MT’s Molly the Bear? The pet bear who got separated from her devoted elderly owner when he had to be taken to the ER because he had crashed his truck? Because Molly had been trying to make out with him from the backseat? Kind of like the accident that forever maimed Stephen King (where the guy lost control of his van because his rottweiler was trying to get into the front seat where there was a cooler of venison?) And then Molly lumbered about evoking the ire of the locals? Who tried to shoot her because she may or may not have terrorized some farm animals or something? Even though it was actually this other bear? Who got shot in the ass but was still sort of ok? A la the movie, “The Bear”? From which my parents had to remove me, bawling, at the age of six because I couldn’t handle said film’s many gratuitous deaths (remember when the adult bear mauls the hunter’s horse and it’s all skinless and bloody and the hunter’s like “Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn yoooooooooooooooouuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!)? ANYBODY?
Well even if you don’t remember, here are some of the original strips via an awesome blog I found called The Comics Curmudgeon!
And no, I am not drunk at the time of this posting!
