it's got to be a downward slope, it's a riverbed.
if it wasn't a downward slope, what are the strands of grass/algae doing hanging 'up' off of the jaw?
anyway. the skull shape might not have ruled out because mulefoot's art has changed significantly between dry run and the end of red river. however, despite being dumped in the river, travis didn't have a watch, let alone a wedding ring. i figure those two are a bit more damning.
i think the wedding ring is what we should be looking for, since a watch can be covered up.
the only time in all of slop-history, including comics AFTER (because sometimes i get the impression slop is not linear) red river that i spotted rings or something that might be mistaken for watches were:
-on in tony ray's fantasy, she wears a ring (obviously not this, then)
-on 's wrist. but given that's obviously a medalert kinda thing and franklin's a boxer with a significantly different shaped muzzle, no dice here.
-. right wrist, right muzzle...but i think from the decay it's not mikey. also if that is the pelt and not dirt covering a body, then the pelt rules it out too. plus we'd prolly see a few more pieces of metal junk from mikey's face lying around.
- has a watch, right colour, matches the face shape and is dead...but if this is scotty, then who's the brice-clone in the freezer at the morgue? also when scotty left brice, was no longer wearing the watch.
- have watches but man, that'd really be reaching.
so that's all our suspects, at least ones with visable wrists/ring fingers. and none of em seem too likely.
soooo next, how about the black paws that go beyond the wrist and a canid-ish skull?
-immediately ruling out brice, scotty and laura due to the fact that we know the locations of their bodies (if brice is indeed the fox in interlude) as well as brice's father (ID'd the body) and laura's father (skinned the body).
- and both seem ambigously coloured...but it's unlikely it's them.
-once again, shows up.
-, aka the chatty one...but she gets dropped off. so we assume she got away.
-, but when tony last saw her he was in no condition to take her down to a river. then again, maybe it wasn't him. this just seems unlikely though. no watch, no ring.
so my money is currently on mikey as the most likely subject since he fits into both catagories better than anyone else. it's possible crows yoinked his piercings off the body, or some other scavenger did. maybe discolouration went all crazy on the pelt or the fur was pulled out or something. last we saw him, uthy had him at gunpoint, which the two casings also support it might be him.
oh and all this rereading reminds me. nobody noticed that runs self defense classes for women and . wonder what their connection is.