Comics Curmudgeon:
Mark Trail, 11/29/14
“If only this person with political/economic power could see how beautiful this natural area is, surely they wouldn’t despoil it!” is a common Mark Trail trope, and is obviously completely realistic: why wouldn’t the chief executive of a possibly publicly traded corporation write off a multimillion dollar land investment when they discover that nature is pretty? It’s possible, though, that Mark has something more sinister in mind. Doesn’t his smile in panel two seem a bit cruel? Remember, a couple of weeks ago Mark went swimming and encountered a bull shark … a “monster”, you might say. Mark is going to lure this sinister environment-destroying CEO to a bloody, horrible shark-death, is what I’m trying to get at. He’ll listen to the man’s dying screams, stare grimly down at the gore in the water, then call his masters at the Earth Liberation Front. “The shark ate him!” he’ll say.
via joshreads.com
These are the fish species that you might encounter in the Great Dismal Swamp (PDF):
Longnose gar…......................................Lepisosteus osseus
Bowfin…............................................................Amia calva
Redfin pickerel….....................................Esox Americanus
Chain pickerel….................................................Esox niger
Golden shiner…..........................Notemigonus crysoleucas
White catfish…...........................................Ameiurus catus
Channel catfish….................................Ictakurus punctatus
Yellow bullhead…....................................Ameiurus natalis
Brown bullhead…................................Ameiurus nebulosus
American eel….........................................Anquilla rostrata
Mosquitofish…...................................Gambusia holbrooki
Swampfish….......................................Chologaster comuta
Pirate perch…..................................Aphredoderus sayanus
Mud sunfish…..................................Acantharchus pomotis
Flier….........................................Centrarchus marcopterus
Warmouth…..............................................Lepomis gulosus
Bluespotted sunfish….................Enneacanthus gloriousus
Banded sunfish…..............................Enneacanthus obesus
Redbreast sunfish…...................................Lepomis auritus
Pumpkinseed….......................................Lepomis gibbosus
Bluegill…...........................................Lepomis microchirus
Largemouth bass.............................Micropterus salmoides
Black crappie…............................Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Eastern swamp darter…....................Etheostoma fusiforme
Yellow perch….........................................Perca flavescens
Eastern mudminnow..................................Umbra pygmaea
Creek chubsucker..................................Erimyzon oblongus
I see largemouth, but not striped, bass.
