Brian and The Buck That....

What follows is too much to condense into one post, or an entire comic book, but it makes for GREAT late night television.

Apparently Brian had applied Wildlife Research Center’s® 2009 Special Golden Estrus® behind his ears, on the soles of his boots…and elsewhere…for his solo game expedition to North Salem, New York.

Within an hour of being in the woods, he was accosted by a rowdy young buck who found him irresistible.

His guns were not yet loaded, so they tussled “mano-a-mano” so to speak.

He’s not sure when or how he went unconscious, or what happened to him while he was out.

But he came to with absolutely no memory of the incident…or of himself for that matter.

His head ached. He was badly bruised. Vague emotions of shame, humiliation, uneasy satisfaction and perverse curiosity were wreaking havoc on him. And oh yes, he had intact recall of 16th Century Italian poetry and Mahler’s symphonies.

He was trying to piece all this together, when a man, seemingly with myasthenia gravis, stumbled upon him.

The man asked some questions.

Brian gave the same answer to all:

“The buck didn’t stop there!”

“The buck didn’t stop there!”

The man, who we later learn is David Letterman, at first thought to call the police, or an ambulance.

But after sharing a few Single Malt Scotches with Brian, he became enamored of the man....For even if he had only one line -- "The buck didn’t stop there!” – at least it was a good one!

Now, Brian, Dr. Knowland and UnderWoman begin weaving together some of the missing pieces:

David Letterman brings Brian back to the city, and wants to have him on the Late Show as a special guest.

But Brian “spooks” and runs off into the city, which, although once his home, is now utterly unfamiliar to him.

It is only in the Central Park Zoo that Brian finds some level of comfort.

What prompts him to still dab Special Golden Estrus® behind his ears, we can only guess.

But UnderWoman is pretty sure of is this -- that the David Letterman who found Brian Liebman in the woods was not myasthenic (indeed, the incident had predated Brian’s myasthenic moments with UnderWoman in Central Park), but rather, intoxicated...symptoms of which are sometimes mistaken for MG.

Brian considers this carefully. Thinks for a moment. And then asks, to everyone’s surprise:

“Dr. Knowland, have you ever considered working with large animals?”