Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for July 08, 2024

Does an upside-down grak sound just like a right-side-up grak? In Wallace world.

“His name was Adam!”

I love that Wallace’s final comment is a short periodic sentence. (That is, unless we count the long chant of mom mom mom mom….) Usually they are long and complex. But their principal characteristic is that the main point is withheld till the end. Winston Churchill, John Milton, and Walt Whitman are seen to have used them to great effect. In this case, the very last word, “yesterday” flash-crystalizes the annoying/hilarious nature of the whole rant. Love it.

I love that first panel.

I remember the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Atom Ant and the 1980s singer Adam Ant. I also remember a 1970s strip in Hotspur Comic called “Charley’s Ant” which I later learned was a play on the title of the play “Charley’s Aunt”.

Wallace putting the ant in antecedent

Ants are amazing!

Was it in the kitchen? The little boogers keep sending out scouts in mine..

I wonder what he would call if he saw an uncle?

Sterling, rushing in- “AND I ATE IT.”

……..everything is not 911!!!!!

Why I stayed single.

Who heard that in Stewie’s voice?

‘grak’

Hee-hee, yup! Both been on the receiving and the giving side of that before. :P

Aunt are everywhere.

Untypical Wallace behavior.

Was it….. “THEM!”

That Is so far the worst reason l have ever heard for getting your Mother’s attention…..

Two things: (1) Yes, parenthood is like this, and (2) priorities are an individual state of mind.

We took a cinnamon breakfast loaf to sister in law’s house. We found all of her ant colonies the next morning.

Just a little soap destroys their scent trails—and also them, since they breathe through their skeletons. You can’t drown them in water but you can in soapy water, clogging them up.

“It was your Aunt Margaret. I saw her, too.”

Mahm!

Now Wallace is just out to bug Mom.

Talk about a delayed reaction!

Wallace is not very brave today.

I know how that is—when you want to share something but know you’ll forget if you don’t blurt it out now. It’s a fine feature of email as opposed to writing or phoning: it’s easy and acceptable to jot another missive with one more tiny remark that you didn’t include in your previous note.

“Did you see the moon last night??” Or “the clouds today were fantastic.”

Darnell Coles did a version of this joke back when he was doing standup comedy

Seagull wants a mom too.

I love how the seagull also makes a sound, so it goes“Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Grek Mom Mom Mom Mom”

“Want to see an antelope?“