Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for August 04, 2022

to where on a crab would you tie string?

Seagull is just hoping something yummy is under that rock.

Wallace, such aplomb. And Spuddly Duddly, those eyes. Will — our Beloved Will — such a vigorously flamboyant imagination. (Oh dear, I hope he doesn’t get a fat head … )

I tried doing that with flies. I tied hairs around the flies to make a huge buzzy balloon so they’d carry me to school and I wouldn’t have to walk. Worked great. Only problem was that it took so long to find enough flies that by the time I got halfway, the first ones in the group started dying off like, like, like…

That’s some serious crab wrangling there!

Can you tie a string to a crab in less time than it takes for the previous crab to get tangled up in its string?

One question Wallace, how do you get them to all go in the same direction?

Get along little crabby.

As I’ve walked around, I’ve often wished that I could attach a dragonfly to a long tether so that it could act as my personal mosquito killer.

And after the ride, supper!

Crab harnesses! Now that’s a business model to revive old boring crab towns.

Only a kid in a seaside town could think to do this.

Not sure that you could train them to walk in the direction you want but if you can, I’ll toss you some candy….

You’ll have to provide that part yourself, Spud.

You’d never get them to go straight down the street – don’t crabs always go sideways?

Then – Wallace can sayyyy!, …

" Hey Everybody!! … I’ve Got The CRABS !! " …

(Wait!! … Probably NOT a good idea!! … :)

But wouldn’t you be going sideways?

Crabs do not move that fast any way.

Now we know why Gull always fallows Wallace around.

Easy pickings around that kid.

I’ve tied beetles to strings. You can fly them like kites

That would be spectacular!

I’ll volunteer to toss the candy!

It would be a slow and sometimes sideways parade, Wallace.

My kids always called candy tossed at a parade “road giblets.”

Might work better than my dog tied to my Radio Flyer when I was six.

Move ’em on, head ’em upHead ’em up, move ’em onMove ’em on, head ’em up, rawhideCut ’em out, ride ’em inRide ’em in, cut ’em outCut ’em out, ride ’em in, rawhide

No crabs were harmed during the drawing of this strip!

As long as it’s not that old lady that tosses fire from the candy truck.

Those Grimm bothers got to me.

It is fantastic when it works in imagination.

That’d be the slowest parade ever, Wallace.