Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for July 11, 2021

Well, we’ve already had Planet Pea…

The Chowder Nebula …

Also thankful it’s a quahog, not a geoduck …

If it ever collides with Earth, it will be a clamity of massive proportions.

“Clam Nine from Outer Space!”

How about a big crab?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo6HXsHgizc

Not a clam, but another denizen of the deep, a giant space-traveling alien starfish… Starro the Conquerer… was the enemy defeated by the Justice League of America_ in their very first appearance in The Brave and the Bold #28 in 1960.

I’ve always imagined a link between that story and this comic strip.

Why? Well Starro began his invasion of Earth in Rhode Island in a seaside town called S̶n̶u̶g̶ Happy Harbor. [ After all, the bad guy was (more or less) a starfish. ] And I think it goes without saying that Wallace is both brave and bold.

The surprise hero of the tale was a young boy (a teenager) named Snapper Carr. He became the JLA’s mascot/sidekick and an honarary member. Comic relief too because he talked in a clumsily written pseudo-beatnik patois, à la Maynard G. Krebs. He was able to attend their meetings because they built their Secret Sanctuary headquarters inside a nearby mountain. Not near New York or Metropolis or Gotham but on the outskirts of quaint little S̶n̶u̶g̶ Happy Harbor.

Wallace knows all the best stories.

thought his name would be “branson”….

I love Will’s imagination. That, and the fact that he draws it in so much detail. I could get lost in each days strip :-))

They could have made the world’s largest bowl of chowdah!

Pew? The clam didn’t go Zippy do into outer space?

Don’t reply, Wallace! Clam up!

I like that this doesn’t lead to a labored pun in the last panel.

In the title panel that we miss seeing here, the seagull is also there with the gang!

And don’t even get me started on the tortilla chip

In that middle panel, bottom row, I have the “Lost in Space” theme running through my head. The good one, from season 1 and 2, with all the Robinson’s doing EVA. Season 3 just doesn’t work for a giant flying space clam.

Spud took this surprisingly calmly. (Not clamly.)

Yeah, admittedly, this is definitely one of the more “out there” of Wallace’s tall tales. Still amusing as all heck, though.

Factually wrong with that scenario in so many ways but it’s the innocent way young children think and react. God love em…..

Hey! That’s no guided mussel!

— Seriously, there’s no way a clam would grow that large without being well and truly shucked.

I’m guessing they used more than a hydraulic hand pump to remove it… Also, too bad Howard Johnson’s aren’t still around. They could’ve had a heck of a Tuesday special!

I think we need a bigger pot…

Bad move. It could’ve fed the planet’s population many times over. That’s how Ordinary Bill would look at it.

" It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats . . . and travelers from a hundred worlds. Could be a dangerous place – but we accepted the risk, because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace."

It is now known and universally feared as…"Clamactus!"

I am enchanted by the comet (meteor?) in the penultimate panel!

I just noticed, it’s wayyy bigger than Saturn – it must have kept on growing long after it left Earth! It’s got to be 100 times bigger than Saturn, which means many more times bigger than Earth is. Great A’Tuin needs to look out!