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Mark Trail, 1/6/05

Mark’s a man who knows good “stuff” when he tastes it. M-m-m indeed!
Fact I wanted to know about Mark Trail: he can identify illicit drugs by taste. Fact I didn’t want to know about Mark Trail: he likes to take stuff off of Kelly’s shoes and then put it in his mouth.
Hubris
January 7th, 2005 at 9:57 am
Is this the first actual appearance of Mark’s narrow, reptilian devil-tongue?
dalton
January 7th, 2005 at 10:02 am
What kind of drug dealer lets a young girl walk all over his “stuff”?
enfanta
January 7th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
I’m more concerned that he knows what Plaster of Paris tastes like.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
Wouldn’t it be wonderfully ironic if it turns out to be desicant? Then Mark’s tongue will get all dry and shrivel up.
kat
January 7th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
But wait … he didn’t sniff her feet!
LabRat
January 8th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Actually, that’s a perfectly simple way to identify cocaine. It used to be used as a local anaesthetic; it makes the tip of your tongue go numb and tingle.
Of course, if the Stuff had turned out to be something else, Mark’s line might very well be “That powder is mmmmMMMaaaaaarrrrgh the cactus demons!”
Hubris
January 8th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
You know what, I retract my earlier jibe. I realized that this is probably the first time that Jack Elrod has had to draw a human tongue. I bet that third panel went through at least five frustrating drafts.
CuteLucca
January 8th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
I’m actually more disturbed by Mark’s dainty little-girl hand in the last panel. Looks more like he ripped Kelly’s arm off and is tasting HER fingers.
Anonymous
January 9th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
Kelly doesn’t need arms. Look at that rack!
OrlopRat
January 19th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
It’s a pleasure to hear other folks can enjoy the absolute absurdity of this comic. My problem is that Elrod must be serious about it himself, a world where it’s quite OK to just walk into someone’s place and snoop around, where the solution to a difficult situation is to let fly with the fist. And has he never heard of cell phones or seen a digital camera? His primitive efforts to draw the inside of an airplane cockpit are laughable. What era does this guy live in? The whole thing is pitiful. And of course, that’s the whole appeal, I guess, but has anyone told him the truth? Could he at least get MT into a different looking shirt, without those freakin’ nerdy buttondown pockets!! Oh, the humanity….
peep
March 2nd, 2005 at 3:05 am
i believe m.t. is wearing a jumpsuit, thank you very much.
peep
March 3rd, 2005 at 12:16 am
also, how could he satisfy ANY woman (pink polo shirt or no) with that tounge? (let alone 3?)