Oh, God, I knew that if I read long enough, this day would come eventually: the day when I started recognizing the repeats in Mark Trail. “Sexy” Kelly Welly lounging around in your slip and scheming on November 26, 2010, meet “sexy” Kelly Welly lounging around in her slip and scheming on June 23, 2006! I’m sure you’ll have a lot to talk about, mostly about how finding Mark is never that difficult — it’s seducing him that’s the real trick.
Beetle Bailey, 11/25/10
Oh, also, today is the day we all give thanks that nobody at Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC is talented enough to draw human viscera.
This entry was posted on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 10:05 am and is filed under Beetle Bailey, Mark Trail. | 70 responses to “” cheech wizard
November 26th, 2010 at 10:07 am [Reply]
Sexy Kelly Welly was much sexier in 2006 – but I guess she’s getting older.
That Library Nut
November 26th, 2010 at 10:11 am [Reply]
Alien 5: Sarge’s Demise. Coming this summer to a theatre near you.
Doctor Handsome
November 26th, 2010 at 10:17 am [Reply]
“Rumble in my tummy?!” BITCH, MY GODDAMN ARM IS MISSING!!!
whozitwhatzit
November 26th, 2010 at 10:17 am [Reply]
I .. I can’t tell how many eyes that moose has.
Scott Bot
November 26th, 2010 at 10:18 am [Reply]
DT – Oooh, a supervillian! Someone call Peter Parker!
FW – Don’t make me hate you, Becky…
MW – ‘I’m happy the way things are between us. I don’t have time for meddling and a marriage, too.’
MT – Somehow ’sexy’ and ‘Mark Trail’ seems like a contradiction in terms.
Pluggers – Considering that Black Friday is a national holiday in Pluggerland, the fact that this strip doesn’t have a Black Friday joke is somewhat disappointing.
John C Fremont
November 26th, 2010 at 10:18 am [Reply]
Dear Em Stone,
Would you please, please redraw panel one of today’s Mark Trail? If you do, I will be the happiest boy in Puppetland. Plus, I’ll also bear your children. Somehow. Unless you don’t want kids, in which case, I won’t. But still.
Think about it, won’t you?
JP – I’ve been pretty slow to jump on the Mike Manley bandwagon, but I’m really liking Gloria these days.
DT – That’s not Mordred. That’s Moltar. Somebody get Space Ghost on the line.
SF – I’ll bet they end up watching it a second time with the RiffTrax commentary.
@Bryan (#y108): I don’t think I like what you’re saying about Starcrash, man. It was totally awesome. And totally original. It was Marjoe-riffic. And those special effects were mind boggling. It was like no other movie ever seen. Except Invaders From Mars. And several Harryhausen movies. And, inexplicably, Caligula. Okay, but it was like no other movie ever made that was set in space! With the word “star” right there in the title so you know where it’s set, man.
Hey, is there an official name for the day after Life Day? Like “She Gets Paid On” Friday, maybe?
That Library Nut
November 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am [Reply]
@whozitwhatzit (#4): I’m fairly certain that this entire debacle is one of Mark Trail’s more “interesting” dreams. It starts off with Kelly Welly in the most modest skimpy clothing ever, and then moves on to A NIGHTMARE MOOSE THAT WILL EAT YOUR MIND WITH ITS TWO MOUTHS
zenvelo
November 26th, 2010 at 10:31 am [Reply]
It’s been four years and Kelly Welly is wearing the same nightgown? I hope she has washed it…
Charlene
November 26th, 2010 at 10:32 am [Reply]
@That Library Nut (#7): That’s supposed to be a moose?? No, seriously: I live in Manitoba, I know moose. That is no moose.
It looks like a cross between a capybara and a caribou.
Riff Chick
November 26th, 2010 at 10:32 am [Reply]
MT: god, elrod didn’t even bother to draw up 2 different scenes. He just traced the 2006 strip. For the love of all that is holy. and I thought Tom Batiuk was lazy.
dyslexic dog
November 26th, 2010 at 10:33 am [Reply]
Do not underestimate Kelly Welly. You try to move in on her and she flattens your thumb with a steamroller.
Charlene
November 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am [Reply]
Incidentally, how many eyes does that “moose” have?
Oavis
November 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am [Reply]
Sarge, it turns out, is not actually fat, but is a fifth columnist, send to Camp Swampy by the Politburo, who has been wearing a suicide vest for some sixty years, dreading, waiting and finally praying for the day it would go off.
Oavis
November 26th, 2010 at 10:42 am [Reply]
@Charlene (#9): Another Manitoban here, and as someone who has stared one of these great beasts directly in their properly-aligned eyes, I’ve concluded that only the dessicated corpse of Walt Kelly could have drawn that “moose.”
That Library Nut
November 26th, 2010 at 10:43 am [Reply]
@Charlene (#9): That’s not a moose. It’s an Eldritch Abomination!
Karmyn
November 26th, 2010 at 10:43 am [Reply]
@whozitwhatzit (#4):
That’s not a moose. It’s ALF in disguise. Look at it closely. It looks just like ALF.
Karmyn
November 26th, 2010 at 10:47 am [Reply]
I finally got around to catching up on Luann. Yeah, I was very bored.
I think I got it. Dirk is going to be a missionary. Either that or he’s pulling the greatest prank ever by doing absolutely nothing and letting Brad and Toni go slowly insane waiting for him to strike. Or techinically more insane since neiter are very sane to begin with.
Buck Ripsnort
November 26th, 2010 at 10:51 am [Reply]
Zits: Really, fart jokes? That’s what we’ve come to?
Pickles: Only works if he swats her w/ the newspaper.
Pseudo3D
November 26th, 2010 at 10:53 am [Reply]
@Scott Bot (#5): I’m pretty sure the only stores in Pluggerland are Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, and maybe a small JCPenney…if they’re lucky.
mr 12 oz can
November 26th, 2010 at 10:57 am [Reply]
mark trail- wow imagine the protests if more then a 100 people read mark trail. i wonder if elrod knows most woman wear bra and panties these days.
mary worth- i think dr jeff proposed marriage because he wants sex on another day besides his birthday and arbor day .
Dano
November 26th, 2010 at 11:00 am [Reply]
MT missed the lead as Mark has successfully crossed a moose with a flounder. Now THAT”S good eating!
Little A and his Crystal Ball That Might Finally Be Right Predicts:
November 26th, 2010 at 11:10 am [Reply]
LUANN: My Cloudy Crystal Ball (which hasn’t helped me win the lottery yet) predicts that tomorrow (as it is the end of the strip-week, and we have to be kept hanging (so to speak), TONI WILL SAY TO DIRK: “YOU ARE GOING AWAY? WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHAT ABOUT OUR DAUGHTER SHANNON??!! Or something like that.
And The dufus, who has been listening and watching from the doorway, will be shocked and dismayed.
THAT’s WHAT MY CRYSTAL BALL PREDICTS.
I figure, also, that if I write in upper-case, soembody will pay attention to this post.
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 26th, 2010 at 11:10 am [Reply]
@whozitwhatzit (#4): That’s no moose… it’s a flounder!
Amateur
November 26th, 2010 at 11:14 am [Reply]
MW: So is there a reason that Mary, who obsessively pairs up everyone else around her, mercilessly shoots her own suitor out of the saddle? Is it just that it brings joy to her cruel, icy heart to make Jeff suffer? Or is she afraid Jill will want to plan the wedding?
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 26th, 2010 at 11:15 am [Reply]
Why did the artist draw Sarge’s backside facing out? (Talk about ass backwards!)
Rusty
November 26th, 2010 at 11:20 am [Reply]
BB: Sarge has a gunt.
Terry in Maryland
November 26th, 2010 at 11:24 am [Reply]
MW: Mary explains the concept of f%^& buddy to Jeff.
terrapin
November 26th, 2010 at 11:34 am [Reply]
MT- Kelly Welly seems to have put on some weighty keighty.
Luann-Dirk is the bigger man. What does that tell you about your strip Evans?
Rex MD-”Political asset! Ha ha…see what I did there? Prostate/asset? It’s wit like that that’s gonna get me another term as Mayor Rex!”
Red Greenback
November 26th, 2010 at 11:35 am [Reply]
M!T!:
Oh, Kelly. Always thinking with your neck… or as I like to call it: “Little Kelly”
Meanwhile, in panel 3, the moose/halibut abomination wants Mark to call it, while Cherry(?!) inexplicably calls it “Honey” and tells it she will. Gawd, I LOVE MARK TRAIL!
JD
November 26th, 2010 at 11:36 am [Reply]
“The one place [Mole Man would] hide out would be his palace,” growls Ben Grimm, as he and Spiderman head off in the Fantastic Four’s flying davenport, “under THE BURMUDA TRIANGLE.”
Oh, Lord, and I thought Spiderman was stoopid before! Now I remember why as a kid I thought superhero comics were moronic.
Bryan
November 26th, 2010 at 11:36 am [Reply]
@John C Fremont (#6): I don’t think I like what you’re saying about Starcrash, man
Hey, bro, I certainly didn’t mean to put down Starcrash. It’s one of my favorite movies and one of the first movies I watched with my girlfriend. It is certainly a better cinematic experience than The Star Wars Holiday Special. Caroline Munro is worth the price of admission alone.
Illustrator Steve
November 26th, 2010 at 11:38 am [Reply]
MK: (Here we go again!) Looks like Kelly has been packing on a few pounds since last seen around this comic strip, but I’m sure she will go on a diet once she sees Cherry Trail’s tiny 14″ waist shown in panel three! (juat wait and see how much thinner Kelly will be illustrated once she catches up with good ol’ Mark!)
And, by the way, they must have some very faulty nuclear reactors leaking lots of radiation down at the Lost Forest power plant facility. Because just take a look at that giant twenty foot tall hidious mutant animal with the double set of eyes that’s hoovering it’s ugly head over Cherry and Mark at waters edge! If Elrod actually thinks it’s some sort of Moose then he should get some better help in selecting animal pictures when flipping through his dead boss’s old clip art files! GHEEESH!
Dennis Jimenez
November 26th, 2010 at 11:41 am [Reply]
MT – Plot line prediction – Lost Forest Lolita Cherry Poppin’ Leads to Hard Time on Trail – Mark My Words….
Digger
November 26th, 2010 at 11:42 am [Reply]
We know Kelly’s a “bad girl” because of all the skin she’s showing, unlike the good and pure Cherry, who never even bares her arms.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
November 26th, 2010 at 11:48 am [Reply]
MT: Kelly Welly schemes seductively in her Mad-Men-era slip, complete with pearl earrings and mascara, frilly girly-lamp at her bedside. Next, she’ll dial up her travel agent on her pink princess phone to book tickets on the next Pan Am flight to Sea Breeze fishing camp. Don’t forget to pack your that round, baby-blue cosmetic case, Kelly! You’re gonna need plenty of mascara for this adventure!
FC: “Ah yes,” thinks Grandma wistfully, “I too could be walking under the palm trees to the early-bird buffet, if only I could break free from this lot. I must discover where they’ve hidden my prescription medications; once I have those heart pills in hand, I’ll be free. Free!”
SM: So it took Spidey all that time to figure out they weren’t headed underground? Yeah, that sounds about right.
And I hope that Mole Man has some sort of speedy subterranean conveyance to get his bride-to-be to his Bermudan palace. That’s quite a distance, and she’s wearing heels.
MW: Mary, I imagine, is pretty skilled at this sort of block: “Move your hand away from there, Jeff.” “Somehow, I knew you’d say that, Mary. But I was in the moment, and I had to try.”
A3G: I was going to say that Luann would have to do more than answer the phone to get that piano out of there, but then I realized that it’s hunky Polish moving man on the phone, and she’ll pretty much solve their problem by answering it. I mean it. Seriously.
Snowshoecat
November 26th, 2010 at 11:49 am [Reply]
After comparing the two versions of the “sexy” Kelly, I must say that whoever does the drawing should have stuck with the ‘06 version. She didn’t look so freakish then. Of course, many aging celebs didn’t look quite so freakish after four years and multiple surgeries.
And what is with the awkward wrestling match between Mary Worthless and her, um, whatever?
bats :[
November 26th, 2010 at 11:50 am [Reply]
Okay, I’ll risk a repost, just because Josh was inexplicably drawn to Kelly Welly. And because I think this is a moose from the Star Wars galaxy — critters there tend to have superfluous eyes. Or maybe it is a SW flounder, with superfluous legs.
And so this isn’t a complete and utter repeat, let’s see how The Courtship of Adrian’s Father is coming along…
Sarah
November 26th, 2010 at 11:58 am [Reply]
The art in Mark Trail seems to have been degraded pretty significantly since 2006; it is difficult to tell that the look Kelly is giving us in today’s strip’s second panel is in fact “evil sexiness” as you so eloquently put it :p.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
November 26th, 2010 at 11:59 am [Reply]
snark has been post-jumped, but here’s the squee and some lol-snark.
MG&G’s offer to Evens to help find the sense in the current Luann story line.
a response to yesterday’s 6Cx and several other strips this week.
just takin’ a break in between fish slappage.
three ikkle big kittehs. [*]
next best thing to butterfly kisses.
droopy puppeh.
concentration, I haz it. (alternative, using the Force to get noms to fall on floor)
Truth in Advertising. (last 2 4bb,u)
dyslexic dog
November 26th, 2010 at 12:01 pm [Reply]
@Sarah (#38):
No kidding…it’s really tough to work up a good case of menace with a frayed yarmulke.
NoahSnark
November 26th, 2010 at 12:10 pm [Reply]
In the missing third panel of Beetle Bailey, Otto cuts his way out of Sarge’s stomach and utters a pithy line that would have been mildly funny fifty years ago.
wossname
November 26th, 2010 at 12:15 pm [Reply]
Arch – Wow, that Jughead, with his closed eyes – what a rebel! What a beatnik!
Jumble – Whoa, that is some mohawk on that slacker!
MT – The comparison with 2006 Sexy Kelly Welly is fascinating. Why does she look so much more like Rusty this time around?
MW – Well that’s a relief. We now resume our normally scheduled program, “Real Doctors of Santa Royale.”
BrS – This is such fun. When it’s resolved, I really am going to go back and re-read the whole thing.
@Steve the Pocket (#Y78): Depends what state they’re in. (Yeah yeah, state of confusion, state of idiocy, I know.) In quite a few states, as long as one party in the conversation agrees (i.e. Toni), it’s legal to tape it.
Amateur
November 26th, 2010 at 12:17 pm [Reply]
MT: What makes you all so sure that thing is meant to be a moose? It looks more like a boar — or a buffalo — or a flounder-faced warthog, or . . . or . . . okay, maybe it’s a moose.
Anonymous
November 26th, 2010 at 12:22 pm [Reply]
@Snowshoecat (#36): as #6 and #10 were pointing out, “drawing” is a generous term for how they got the 2010 version – they just photocopied and enlarged the 2006 version – plus recoloured the hair (far worse job). The art did work better in the smaller size, but whom do we blame? (The newspapers for putting up with legacy strip recyling, right?)
And it’s like old home week here – wow #9-Charlene and #14-Oavis – hi from an ex-pat Manitoban down in the sound-alike US state of Minnesota!
CanuckDownSouth
November 26th, 2010 at 12:23 pm [Reply]
oops #44 is me – cookies reset
Johnny Knuckles
November 26th, 2010 at 12:34 pm [Reply]
@cheech wizard (#1): MT: Elrod could take some booty-drawing lessons from the dude who drew Jughead’s ass.
doug rogers
November 26th, 2010 at 12:38 pm [Reply]
Mooses have neckses
Ed Dravecky
November 26th, 2010 at 12:44 pm [Reply]
Is it US Civil War day in the comics? Frank & Ernest puns on Lee’s surrender to Grant, Pickles sings us a Union prisoner of war song, and Ziggy finally admits his role in the burning of Atlanta.
bachelormanhattan
November 26th, 2010 at 1:24 pm [Reply]
It’s a shame Jack Elrod resisted the urge to turn the third panel into a Sunday-style infographic about whatever that animal is.
Jym Dyer
November 26th, 2010 at 1:26 pm [Reply]
=v= MT: I figure the hideous Kelly Welly closeup in the second panel is testament to what a big-city nose job and just a few years of Botox could do, Mr. DeMille.
I cringe to admit this, but I remember the “sexy” Kelly lounging around in her unmentionables from 2006, and then as now, cringe to notice that’s she’s considerably more ample with her clothes off. I can only conclude that this is some sort of 1940s foundation garment, perhaps a truss/girdle combination like in those old-timey ads in the Old Farmer’s Almanac. The near-primates who colorize King Features comics made this garment pink, but it’s actually a sanitary off-white.
Jym Dyer
November 26th, 2010 at 1:29 pm [Reply]
=v= MW: I’m pretty sure Mary just threatened Dr. Jeff with a kneecapping.
troostie
November 26th, 2010 at 1:33 pm [Reply]
I think Mark has bigger problems than Kelly, the local elk seem to be cross-breeding with halibut!
zenvelo
November 26th, 2010 at 1:49 pm [Reply]
@Amateur (#24): Dr Jeff is sufficient beard for Mary until same sex marriage is legalized for Charterstone.
Mark55025
November 26th, 2010 at 2:34 pm [Reply]
@cheech wizard (#1):
Funny seems to me she hasn’t changed a bit.
Black Drazon
November 26th, 2010 at 2:44 pm [Reply]
I’m not positive what part of Mark’s fishing trip involves him going for a walk with his wife while hefting a heavy shovel, but I figure it’s the part where he said he might have trouble getting her “permission.” So he’s going to dig her a flower garden! Isn’t that nice. Wait, what did you think I meant?
But What Do I Know?
November 26th, 2010 at 3:23 pm [Reply]
MT–Kelly Welly actually might have a hard time finding the Sea Breeze Fishing Camp–since it’s apparently at a landlocked lake hundreds of miles from the ocean. . .
Rixter
November 26th, 2010 at 3:28 pm [Reply]
Gee, not only has Kelly not redecorated in over 4 years, but she still has that same old issue of “Honcho” close by on the bed.
greghousesgf
November 26th, 2010 at 3:33 pm [Reply]
did Sarge just fart out his belly button?
The Ghost of Jarrod
November 26th, 2010 at 4:21 pm [Reply]
A Møøse once bit my sister. No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink”…
thunderheels
November 26th, 2010 at 10:13 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#19): You forgot Dollar Tree.
Crankenstank
November 27th, 2010 at 1:02 am [Reply]
I love the talking moose in Mark Trail! A great shout-out to the famous desk accessory of ye old Macintoshen, circa 1986. Of course, the utterances of the computerized moose made considerably more sense than the strange be-lingered soliloquies of contemporary Mark Trail.
Packherd
November 27th, 2010 at 10:47 am [Reply]
@Oavis (#13): Worst. Suicide bombing. Ever.
Illustrator Steve, again
November 27th, 2010 at 11:17 am [Reply]
MK –
Panel one: Others have mentioned Kelly’s resemblance to Rusty, and I also see it in the face. Wait a second! Since it’s well known that Rusty was adopted by Mark and his giant animals, this could only mean one thing… KELLY IS RUSTY’S BIRTH MOTHER!!!!! Now it all starts to make sence why Kelly is always running after Mark, she wants to keep tabs on her son since she abandoned him at birth so she could run away to further her life’s work as an annoying flirt with every man she sees!
Panel two: If Elrod’s untalented staff are going to colorize a recycled close-up of Kelly’s ugly face then they could have at least blended in the blue hair along the forehead rather than just using masking tape and spray painting the blue color straight across this bimbo’s forehead! (NOTE TO JACK ELROD: Maybe this technique would have gone unnoticed back when newspaper comic strips would have only been printed in black and white but, TIME TO WAKE UP ELROD! In this century we now get to see you’re dead boss’s old recycled drawings in color, you idiot!!!)
Panel three: Maybe that’s not a talking-mutant-star wars-flounder-moose at all. Maybe it’s Kelly! Afterall, she does seem a bit “moose-like” in panel one!
Groucho
November 27th, 2010 at 4:11 pm [Reply]
@whozitwhatzit (#4): @whozitwhatzit (#4):
This was the week Mel Lazarus guest drew the animals. No matter how hard he tried to create realistic looking creatures, he just couldn’t resist putting both eyes on the same side of the nose.
Donkey Hotey
November 28th, 2010 at 1:59 am [Reply]
@The Ghost of Jarrod (#59): I see what you did there.
Daniel
November 28th, 2010 at 4:46 am [Reply]
MT REALLY looks like a Lichtenstein piece.
Just Human
November 28th, 2010 at 12:08 pm [Reply]
BB: Am I the only person who thinks it looks like the large woman next to Sarge just took a swipe at him that cost a good chunk of his chest?
Écureuil Écumant
November 28th, 2010 at 5:56 pm [Reply]
@35 bourbon babe, unbuckled said:
MT: Kelly Welly schemes seductively in her Mad-Men-era slip, complete with pearl earrings and mascara, frilly girly-lamp at her bedside. Next, she’ll dial up her travel agent on her pink princess phone to book tickets on the next Pan Am flight to Sea Breeze fishing camp.
Well of course it has to be Pan Am because you get one of those lil’ blue wool blankies, and the cuuuute sleep booties and eyeshade, and even an enameled stewardess wing pin that says “Stewardess” right under the wings!
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GDwarf
November 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pm [Reply]
Looking at both of the Mark Trail strips, I have to say that this one looks like it’s been redrawn. Kelly’s head’s position v. the headboard, the off-centredness of the lampshade…They apparently decided to redraw the two panels as closely as they could.
Does this save them money or time somehow? Wouldn’t it just make sense to simply use the same panels over again, rather than drawing them again almost from scratch?
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