Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for May 13, 2021

What’s going on here?

Mussels vs muscles?

Homonyms ‘r’ us….

There’s no need to fear / Wonder Spud is here.

Just a little misunderstanding. At least they’ll have nice dinner.

That did take me a while to figure out. At first, I thought Spud wanted Wallace to attach the shells down along his spine to make a wimpy Godzilla.

I would have thought they were barnacles, and not something to eat.

Had to read the comments first.

If Spud is looking for mussels, well….

Wallace is such a good friend, helping Spud get some mussels – and seagull is extremely interested in the leftovers..!

Clever, Mr. Henry, very clever.

♫ Macho macho man … ♪ ♫

I like the seagull peeking at what Wallace is doing.

Wallace wins. Yes, I had to read the comments also to get the joke.

spud ….. I need some muscles (mussels)

Don’t you dare let those go to waste.

Don’t feel bad Wallace I’m sure your muscles are bigger than spuds

Muscles and mussels.

pluk!

Excellent rendition of mussels, especially the ones in close-up in the second panel: not only the color, but also the little curved growth lines on the shells.Also, great underside of the wharf!

Ok, I live in a town in Montana where cows outnumber people, so it took a LOOOONG time to get this one. Still funny though.

Does anybody see a difference in spud?

Mussels have become a delicacy, evidently.. just shows what a good propaganda campaign can accomplish.

When I was a kid, I’d go down to the beach, pick a mussel off the rocks, crack it open and use it for bait. Good bait, but gross and disgusting. I could never eat the things.

Every day I always save this strip for last, wrapping up my comics reading with Wallace and the gang because it always makes me smile and often makes me laugh out loud. I also enjoy these comments because I typically discover something I didn’t know – or missed, like the seagull today – and this board is so…pleasant…compared to other boards. What a delightful community this is!

While tasty – thus mussels can be really hard to peel off of rocks and stuff!

But Spud has no muscles.

Took reading the comments for me to get the joke. But why is there a speech balloon coming from that cottage in panel three with the name of the Author?

Midwesterner, so I was also thrown off, not knowing mussels from barnacles and expecting Barnacle Boy to be part of the joke, from Amelia’s name for Spud a week or so back.

Mussels

Pulling mussels from a shell. That’s what you do with what Wallace has. Spud is just flexing muscles. There was a song by the band Squeeze. That had the chorus: “Pulling mussels from a shell.” I always thought it said, “Pulling muscles for Michelle.” LOL.

Spud, you can’t eat that kind…

As a very funny chess GM likes to say: “ex-clam! … former mussel”

Spud… What Are You Doing?

Of course, a fisherman’s son would make that interpretation.