Mark Trail, 2/11/25

Oh, sorry I didn't update you on the "Mark helps return a displaced manatee to the sea" storyline, or even [checks archives] tell you about it in the first place, but today's strip pretty much recaps the high points so I don't have to, in a real reversal of this blog's original mission statement. The whole thing about the guys in bear costumes is actually a story that was ripped from the real-life headlines, except the real-life guys were actually just doing some light insurance fraud rather than trying to prevent the return of a manatee to the sea for murky climate-change-denial reasons. Anyway, I'm showcasing today's strip because I'm furious that Mark is doing "flight" wordplay about guys in bear costumes, and you can tell that foreground bird in the last panel is upset that it's been dragged into this thing as a fig leaf. "They'll be hibernating for the winter ... in jail" was right there!

Luann, 2/11/25