Mark Trail: Well, thanks to both of you things turned out the way they did!

Jack Elrod is a shockingly bad writer. Everybody already knows this, of course, but the dialogue in the first panel of today's strip is one of the worst things I've ever read. Doc's declaration fails on almost every level. It is not naturalistic. It is not clear. It is a grammatical disaster.

But oh, look. A pretty bird.