Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for December 15, 2023

With the way she’s likely to say “Thank You”, it’s best if you DON’T watch, Wallace.

The magic formula.

But it’s such a big, beautiful tree! My brother takes his wife and son to cut down a tree each year. I’m happy with a little plastic one that I can put in the attic afterwards.

Oh, Sterling … when you get that look you remind me of one of my sons when he was about your age.

Sterling, if not for maximum barfage, as you put it, there would be no you

Noooo….Maybe Seagull will show them a community of critters living in the tree.

Don’t do it. Tell them you will do it but you need a bigger saw. Then you don’t take them with you and bring home reasonable sized tree. You can always tell them that the other one was gone when you got there, maybe even eaten whole by a certain forest monster that Wallace keeps looking for.

Move the party, not the tree.

Mom knows just how to……its part of the “secrets” we learn at our mother’s knee.

“That thing must weigh a ton.”

Not going to end well.

This reminds me of the time we had the city’s largest Halloween pumpkin. It was $50 back in I think 1990 when that was a lot for a pumpkin, and no one would pay that much for it, although many stopped by the roadside to marvel and purchase normal pumpkins which was the real purpose. My friend group and I stopped at the last possible hour before sundown and the farmer had already packed up all the other pumpkins. We said how about that one, can we get a discount? And he said you kids take it, I am sure as **** not picking it up and putting it on this truck again. Four doughty young people hoisted it into the back of our trunk which wouldn’t latch with it in there, and one speedcarve later we were the heroes of the neighborhood.

BARFAGE!

Barfing at the right tree

Fir play, long time.. They’re close enough to Boston!

Leave that big tree alone, Mom and Dad: I have a bad feeling about this!

One year my mother wanted a live tree. I mean LIVE!! My father dug a hole in early November for it. After Christmas it would be frozen. They got the tree with the root ball. I don’t remember how it was set up in the house. Then after Christmas he planted it. Many many years later it was about 40’ high and they had it taken down. Needed a crane!! I was in the service and didn’t find out till later. Told them they should have donated it to some city for a Christmas tree. They didn’t want the hassle.

I don’t know why someone would want a dying tree in there house to celebrate Christmas. Don’t kill a tree. Buy a live one in a pot then plant it.

Maximum barfage indeed!

For those of you still looking for a wicked good Christmas present Amazon does sell “Wallace the Brave” books to anyone with a credit card.

Maybe Sterling can chew thru the tree trunk!

“Maximum Barfage” Heh-heh. Heh.

Sterling’s not wrong.

She’s still got it and you will get it IF you cut that tree down. You do have a legal out if that’s in a National Forest as a tree that size can’t be harvested for a Christmas Tree….

This is getting interesting!

Clearly, flattery WILL get you somewhere on this. :P

Sound like something Captain Kirk would say, “Set phasers to maximum barfage.”

The only way this ends well for the tree is if They find your bodies in the spring under a pile of Needles and covered with sap.

The flannel jammies are coming out early this evening, boys.

It would’ve been fun to see the gull’s expression in the third panel.

Compromise: Dad risks his neck to climb to the top of the tree and decorate it, then they set up a tent with all the trimmings and enjoy Christmas there.

Classic child’s reaction to signs of affection or more in there parents. All I can say is they’d better be glad it’s there, or they wouldn’t exist!

maximum barfage indeed.

Unless they live in something the size of the White House, that tree is going to be too big for them

We have an official Charlie Brown Christmas Tree that sits on our fireplace mantel. A single red Christmas ball ornament with Linus’s blue blanket wrapped around the base.