Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for May 20, 2016

The hike ends, and the sprint begins. Sorry Tank. She’s most likely faster.

Bear with me…

Looks like a black bear, which, if you must confront bears, is in the good. Give it space and it will likely stay away from you. Try to take a close up picture, or something equally dumb, things might become unfortunate.

Since they are on the A.T. it has to be a black bear. No grizzlies in the east. Although black bears can show in lighter colors.

Looks black to me.

Keep your distance. They’re pretty dangerous.

I guess, they’ll have to grin and bear it.

I remember when Tank used to dive for things that were barely fumbles…..

Thanks everyone for the comments (actually hadn’t noticed the bear in P3 before reading them – caused me to take a second look).

Mr Hinds, are you borrowing one of Wiley’s(Non Sequitur) Bears? So does Tank get a chance to save his new GF?I remember when Tank was a fumble mouthed recently retired lineman who had a trained reflex to seize a fumble, so anything or everything that people dropped he yelled fumble and tried to grab it. Way back in Tanks early years, his was the only Sports comic around, I have tried for years to get my daily paper(San Antonio Express News) to buy the strip and put it in the sports section. Its far better than some they have now. Tank also kind of reminds me of Doonesbury(late 60s early 70s) back when he left college satire and started doing political satire.I love how Mr Hinds does Sports Satire with Tank, Keep it up sir, keep it up

Q: How do you tell the difference between a brown bear and a grizzly bear?A: Climb a tree. If the bear climbs after you, it’s a brown bear. If it knocks the tree down, it’s a grizzly bear.

♪♫ Hey lord, if you can’t help me, for goodness sake don’t help that bear! ♪♫.I’m tellin’ you.. HE’S BIG!!!