Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for May 11, 2024

You’re assuming that he is wearing any clothes.

Wallace is the only person who likes mud season.

Wallace has no laundry to do, and a very supportive mother.

Why assume that he is wearing clothes.

Wallace’s Mother is going to have gray hair and ulcers before her 30th birthday.

Well, there was this cold, wet day in football practice…..

Wallace? Does your mother know you’re inviting girls to get into the mud pit with you?

He’s smart enough to wear eye protection!

Third day of this rainy story line. I wonder what Will has in store for us.

At first, I thought Seagull was saying, “He’s here.”

I think he’s channeling Bigfoot…..

Only the strong and clothes survive!!!!

Oh, don’t get his mother even STARTED on that subject, Amelia. ;)

You mean his mother……

Spud: “Mud worms in my ears. Yck.”

Good thing Spud already knew Wallace was in there or he would have completely freaked out when that THING came up from the ooze!!

What laundry? It’s raining!

I’m sure Wallace isn’t the one doing the laundry!

Wallace will never be bored for certain.

Let’s not even mention all the shoes he’s thrown into the bay.

Mud, mud, glorious mud,

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.

So follow me, follow, down to the hollow

And there let us wallow in glorious mud.

“The Hippopotamus” by Flanders & Swann

“In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood

Re: the washing. Wallace’s mom will just tie a bowline under his arms, toss him off a pier, swish him up/down a few times, and make him walk home. Or dad will tow him behind the Narhwal.

As a bonus Wallace will count either as an adventure.

Wallace has created the 100% natural and organic ghillie suit…

Wallace’s Mom makes him strip down to his skivies and wash down with the garden hose before he comes in the house.

“Only I and the rose bush knows, how good mud feels between the toes” — somebody else’s poem, from memory.

Oh, it’s not how MUCH laundry, but, boy, does it take a lot more work per load!

The Creature.

Multum in parvo—simple concept, yet drawn in detail. No extravagant effects, but much to see: every raindrop tracked; minimalist faces but we can recognize individuals even bundled up in rain gear or covered in mud; few words, but fitting characters that have been built and shaped over the years till we believe and care about them. Ordinary situations, yet vivid and memorable.

As opposed to sterling which likes to go nude?

Always liked a good mud pit!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you rain and dirt, make mud pies.