Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for February 24, 2022

Seagull looks like he had one too many…

Hi jschumaker

Ok, my James Garner story. Back around 1978 or 79, I decided to fly out to California, and while there I made a detour to the Hollywood Blvd area. At the far end of the boulevard was a big house set far back from the street that was occasionally used for indoor set shots for a variety of different TV shows. I’d walked past the house to where civilization ended, and turned around to come back. There was a big semi-trailer parked on the street in front of the house, with cables running along the yard to the front door. They were recording an episode of The Rockford Files on location at the time. I was still about 50 feet from the truck when James stepped out of the house and headed for the truck. At the same time, some 40-year-old tourist and his wife approached from the other side of the truck, saw James, and the guy immediately raised his camera to take a photo. James spotted the guy and yelled “You don’t want to do that!” The guy hesitated, lowered the camera a bit, then raised it again to take the photo. James yelled again, “You really don’t want to do that!” The guy stopped, really confused, then started raising the camera again. James, who was still some 20 feet back and walking to the truck, yelled out, “Your lens cap is still on!” The guy looked down at the camera, saw the lens cap, turned a shade of red so deep I could see it from 30 feet away, took the cap off, got his photo, and ran off with his tail between his legs, and his wife trotting after him. James ignored me and disappeared into the truck. Wish I’d had a video recorder to capture it all, it would have been viral gold. (No chickadees, though.)

There’s a photograph of #43 doing that. It happens to just about everyone if they’re distracted at the right moment, but some paparazzi had it timed.

#42, 11 july 1993.

I love love love the font change!

There’s something deeply profound about today’s comic. Pretty sure it can be applied on a societal level, and certainly on a personal level for me.

Wallace’s look says “You’re an idiot sometimes but you always be my Buddy.”

Love the look on Wallace’s and seagull’s faces in the 2nd panel.

Not far into the future and Seagull will have his own thought globe. :D

Up there, it’s a Black-capped Chickadee. Down here, it would be a Carolina Chickadee. Either way, long-time birders would leave those caps off, since the lenses are protected by pointing downward. The eyecaps, definitely leave on until use, though!

Well, that was easy . .

At least he didn’t confuse which end to look through.

That thing was actually pretty accurate the first time…

Spud’s “hey, a chickadee!” makes me think of a time in middle school when, while riding on the bus and boredly making note of the models of cars that were driving by (mostly Fords and Toyotas I believe it was), I suddenly saw one that broke the trend and blurted out, “Hey, a Buick!” in what I figure was probably the same tone of voice as Spud here.

My friend who was sitting next to me at the time razzed me about it for a good few weeks afterwards. :P

I love this comic.

I love the expression on Wallace’s face in panel two!

Ah yes, those who try to peer far into the future with their eyes covered.

LOL!!! However, we have Blue Birds at our feeders this morning :-)

As that Nietzsce guy said, “And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” And right now Odinsdottir, our big black fluffy Norwegian Forest Cat, is staring at me from her perch in the catio.

TIme to give the seagull his own thought globe. :D

I love Spud so much.

George Seagull looks like one of The Fabulous Feathered Freak Brothers!!

This one took me a second, lol