Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for August 04, 2024

Friendship.

Yes, a meeting of the minds…

If only all disagreements/discussions could resolve so amicably.

Finally, today’s Venn diagram of interests is found!

Dinos it is!

And staring at cell phones all day is not an option!

A roaring good comic strip.

Stinky dead fish dogs off the pier! I’m in!

Blind cat playing piano, and … Amelia!

Afterwards, pizza and ice cream!!

I like how most of Wallace’s ideas are active, and Spud’s are sedentary – there’s a lot of “thought” behind those choices!

Finding common ground – a concept that we can all benefit from.

If your going to play dinosaurs, watch out for the native Sterling.

nobody agreed with the seagull tho :(

For those of you who haven’t been to Rhode Island, Spud’s last item in the first panel is a Del’s Frozen Lemonade, an Ocean State speciality. Especially appropriate on these scorching hot summer days.

Food or dinosaurs.

Love what’s on Seagull’s mind!!!

Spud wants Dels lemonade! I’d go for some.

Dem boys are all over the place!!!!

I love that all of Wallace’s are active, where all of Spuds are couch potato, except for running through the sprinkler and dinosaurs.

What is our gull friend thinking of besides a fish skeleton and a hot dog? Is that a pair of pilings for sitting on and gazing philosophically out to sea?

Five Aces? Does that beat my Royal Straight Flush?

Poor Seagull got left out. I thought getting a hot dog might appeal to Spud.

So much to look at, so much attention to detail. Thank you.

“Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” Sorry but I couldn’t help myself. Every time I see toy dinos, I think of Wash from Firefly.

I’m with Seagull: hot dogs on the pier!

grr! aaarrghhhh!

This is BRILLIANT Will Henry! It captures the entire process by which little kids go through the entire litany of possibilities to fill their day and then logically end up with dinosaurs!! Can I assume the large ape was a possible visit to the zoo? Again BRILLIANT

I spy: is that a ladybug drawn on the garden fence in the main panel?

I love how you can hear the Thwap of the ball smacking into the glove in that moment of silence when they realize they landed on a shared idea. This strip and its creator are simply genius.

I love this!

At least they are outdoors. :)

I’m surprised that Spud’s collection of ideas doesn’t include his beloved NPR.

I love these picture speech bubble ones

The Venn diagram of friendship.

Heh, Del’s. They oughta throw a couple bucks to Will Henry for the nice ad!

I had a box full of plastic dinosaurs when I was a kid.

So, so cool!

This was me and my best friend when I was about 10. We saved our allowances to buy the deluxe box of dinosaurs from the discount dept store. There was a large field behind my house – we dug out a big ditch that was our stage for playing with marbles, cars, army men and dinosaurs. Those were good time.

I’m a little surprised Wallace wasn’t thinking of the sprinkler, too

It’s better to synthesize ideas. I’m thinking playing with dinosaurs while eating pizza and ice cream.

along comes Sterling and the next thing you know everyone’s extinct… Raawwwr!!

Dinosaurs are wonderful!

Absolutely brilliant.

Dinosaurs win out again. Darn that meteor…..

Ok, this is gonna be way out of there, but Wallace isn’t changing clothes at all? Wouldn’t he stink by now, badly?

Quite a few of our favorite things.

Thank you for your work, Will Henry, I’m a bitter, old man and your work makes me smile.

The gull is center stage in the title panel: Each letter of W-A-L-L-A-C-E and B-R-A-V-E is announced (? somehow) by the cocky fellow in a separate speech balloon, creating a vast cluster (stems of the top ones are tucked behind the bottom row). There’s one more balloon in the middle for “THE.” Some gopherlike creature is popping up from the ground to say “by Will Henry.”

Best-Friends-R-Us!