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I'd just like to say that "His assignments inevitably lead him to discover environmental misdeeds which are most often solved with his crushing right cross" is an amazing sentance. Kudos to whoever wrote it. It's not entirely encylopedic, I suppose, but given that we're talking about a comic book character, it seems appropriate.

It's completely accurate. If you read the strip, you'd soon come to believe that there isn't any threat to our natural environment that couldn't be solved by beating people up. This strip is awesome. --Jfruh (talk) 22:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree that that sentence is awesome. This article must never be nominated for a collaboration or for featured status, as I'm sure some humorless git would insist on removing it. john k 16:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
As the original author of this article, I take credit for the sentence. I know it is un-wikipedia-ish, but I was rather proud of the sentence. Unfortunately, the page history does not span a deep enough period to point this out... Thanks for noticing.--The Anti-Joey 12:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Biblio confusion

Do these seem like they're in the right order?

  • Mark Trail's 2nd book of Animals: (North American Mammals) by Ed Dodd (1959)
  • Mark Trail's Book Of Animals (North American Mammals) by Ed Dodd (1965)

-Tenebrae 23:52, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


is Rusty his or Cherry adopted son the article gives contradicting information Smith03 19:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crushing right cross?

I don't think that this term should be allowed in the article. This is because

1) There has never been any evidence or documentation from medical professionals that the attacks from Mr. Trail cause any sort of concussion, crushing injuries, or compression of bone and/or tissue in or around the area of injury. I would want to see a list of hospital records to indeed prove that Mark Trail punches can crush.

2) Has it been shown that each and every punch from Mark Trail is being done with his right fist? If not, then we may need to change the phrase to "powerful ambidextrous fist-strikes".

3) The motion of Mark Trail fist-strikes, when placed into a computer program (that I created) were shown to create more of an arc, rather than a cross, shape. Subsequent analysis of the strikes, when taking into account humid and cool forest air, show that even the currents generated from the strikes return a semi-circular shape. At no time have I observed crosses.

Forthwith and quid pro quo, 24.82.95.146 04:30, 2 May 2007 (UTC) the third, esq.

Edit: Pepso, please provide a link to an article that speaks of the uses of newspaper in the food industry.

Newspaper comics pages are often crushed when not used to wrap fish. Pepso 07:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not being taken seriously

The problem sentence that I pointed out a little while ago is still in this article. For crying out loud, this is Wikipedia, not some informative, interesting site that is meant to make people feel good about themselves! This site was founded on some fairly strict principles, including a lack of humour, dry clinical analysis of subject matter, and an air of seriousness that is meant to break spirits. How dare people use humour in Wikipedia Articles (or WA's, as I call them). Funny is meant for those slacker sites such as Microsoft or the New Yorker.

Recaltricant and imbibed with gandiose queries, for sooth and in name only, yours truly and meaningfully, 24.82.95.146 19:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment on differences?

That "problem sentence" was well put as a distinctive trait this strip is known for, and should stand. But on a different topic: would it be appropriate to point out in this article the many differences between Dodd's and Elrod's versions? To a longtime reader, they're not even the same strip. Dodd's Trail was an interesting, complex person -- a good guy, but one who endured a lot and showed a normal male range of emotion. When Dodd started the strip (1946), Trail had just been released from WWII, looked in his twenties, and then gradually matured over the years until by the late 1960s he looked in his forties. There was also impressive foreground and background detail in the art. The current Trail is static, unchanging, and almost devoid of personality ("wooden" is one of several terms describing him in some blogs), the artwork is now known for its amusement value, and time is anomalously frozen--Trail is permanently 32 (after courting Cherry for 47 years) and his adventures recycle about every 20 years.SteveRoper 03:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Yup, I would add any info that you can. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 03:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I just added this point to the Controversy (now Controversies) section, and hope I've been sufficiently informative about this important aspect of the strip without stepping over Wikipedia's boundaries for controversy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveRoper (talk • contribs) 03:03, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Characters

Using some strips from the 1950s, I've added Malotte as an update, and Doc Davis's real name; but wondered about Ranger Rick being described as a writer. He was supposed to be a real park ranger (Elrod always showed him wearing a badge). I found a MT strip from 11/11/2006 that indeed identified him as such, not a writer, and corrected the earlier description. He could probably be deleted as one of many dozens of "friends" of Mark's who appear in one story and are never seen again. SteveRoper (talk) 04:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrongful addition to References

To the unsigned adder of Comics Curmudgeon to the "References" section: this blog (an interesting one, to be sure, but more for humor than for researched information) was not referred to anywhere in the article or used as a source, and has therefore been deleted. If you really think it essential for an encyclopedia, then add it where it belongs, in an External Links section.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Marktrail92260.jpg

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BetacommandBot 07:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)