Mark Trail is a comic strip which started in 1946, originally written and drawn by Ed Dodd. The strip focused on environmentalism, with Mark fighting against poachers and pollution from his home in the fictional Lost Forest National Park. Throughout the 1950's, the strip's popularity grew, and Dodd started to bring a number of assistants on board, including his friend Jack Elrod. By the 1960's, the strip had grown from 45 newspapers to around 500.
In 1978, Dodd retired, and Elrod (who had been assisting on the strip for 28 years by this point) took over as the primary artist. At this point, the strip's quality started to drop, often repeating storylines and constantly zooming out in the middle of conversations to show random animals nearby. It remained popular enough to get parodied in the Far Side, but the Mark Trail fandom was gradually shrinking.
The Trailheads Appear
With the advent of the Internet, though, the strip got a new lease on life with "Trailheads", ironic fans of Mark Trail, who appreciated the bizarre, stilted dialogue and uncanny valley faces. This originated with the Comics Curmudgeon, a comics blog (which is still active, in spite of the death of blogs in general) which made fun of newspaper comics, starting in 2004. There was fanart, shirts featuring Mark's famous punching abilities and even...whatever the hell is going on here. Mark Trail still retained its unironic fans, but its ironic internet fandom was starting to grow.
In 2014, just before his 90th birthday, Elrod retired from the strip, passing it on to his longtime assistant James Allen, who continued in much the same vein as before. His tenure on the strip wasn't quite as so-bad-it's-good as Elrod's later work, and the Trailheads shrunk, but they were still definitely there. Up until this point, each artist on Mark Trail had spent years or even decades training an apprentice, passing it off to them only when they were no longer capable of helming the strip, and it was expected tha
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Seriously if you look at it just as a guy getting revenge on the mob boss who killed his family it’s a pretty good movie it’s just when you add in the fact that it’s supposed to be based off the comic book character the Punisher that makes it a piece of shit
Sure, there might be very few funny Garfield strips here and there. But overall, I think the strip is just garbage, not funny, and the drawing is plain lazy. It just rides on people's love for pets, the 'cute a-hole' perception of cats, and marketing.
So I'm trying to read through a few Tintin comic books at the moment which are in French. I came across this part in one of the comics that you can see in this screenshot here: https://ibb.co/d29BwKZ
My understanding is that the the guy on the right is saying "Be calm, I have my eyes on you...here is the boss" and Tintin is saying "What happened to me?"
But what does "n'est-ce pas" mean? I tried to look it up on Google translate but the results are unintelligible.
Back again with another set, this time showing off how awful I am with imgur!
https://imgur.com/gallery/a9uhDAR (PAIN, I USED THE WRONG FONTS FOR THE WRONG BUBBLES.)
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