"most obliviously optimistic nincompoop"

The current Mark Trail storyline has been going on for well over two months now. First it was about a mysterious fence, and then a remarkably stupid little girl and her mother found a fawn and took it home as a pet, and then we discovered the step-father wanted to be governor and was hosting a canned hunt to boost his chances, which Mark of course foiled. Now the embittered and punched out step-father is planning to murder Mark by running him off the road, having cunningly laid his plans by telling Mark to meet him on the mountaintop. Cherry and her father both said they wondered at Frank's wanting to apologize.

Now, today, Mark officially earns the title of "most obliviously optimistic nincompoop" in comicsdom: