Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for September 25, 2020

Spud be swoonin’ hard in that last panel.

Amelia has a career as a Defence Attorney ahead of her. Or a middle school teacher…same thing.

And now we all zoom in our screens to see if we could see what Amelia was saying.I see 3 exclamation points!!!

Amelia’s reputation, swagger, and a sparkling list of adjectives convinces a Big Gunther (nice skull eyes, btw), which saves Amelia the trouble of actually following through.

And that’s how you handle a bully

Never get into an atomic wedgie contest with a girl.

Spud is like, “I’m going to marry this woman! ❤”

Several in the last couple of days have pointed out that there’s a lot going on in almost every panel of this strip. Very true.

Careful attention and even re-reading have been recommended and are rewarded by the discovery of little hidden treasures.

Hidden, as is said, in plain sight. Example today, the destruction of the propeller on BG’s beanie in the second panel above. I love these little extras Mr. Henry gifts to us.

It’s what they call lagniappe New Orleans.

It’s like the technique of hiding “Easter Eggs” in movies to reward close attention. My favorite of these is the picture of the X-Man Wolverine, clawed forearms crossed, tucked into a decorative border in the opening title sequences of The Greatest Showman … which starred Hugh Jackman, who also played Wolverine, doncha know. But where his face should have been was an… Easter Egg.

Here it is :

https://i.redd.it/59wlx1lidsg11.jpg

Wonder Woman when she was a kid…

POP goes the beanie! :D

I love how Amlia shows shows up and Gunther takes off the beanie, out of respect.

But has he given back the money?

Well guys, it’s this way. You want the truth! You can’t….

Spud loves her more and more.

Anyone else notice the skulls in Gunther’s eyes in second panel?

Yea, he’s buying Spud a choco taco (what IS that, anyway?), with the money he stole from him.

“Ma Ma”. Love it.

Amelia is my spirit animal.

I wonder what Amelia’s reputation was in her old town?

I’m thinking of Chris Farley in “Tommy Boy” who said something like “ I know where you sleep and some night I’m going to do something so bad to you it will make your mother cry”

I’d believe it, too.

Amelia has tactical nukes?!?

She’s the one for me…..

Just love the propeller popping off the thugs beanie.

Double skull eyeball bad!!

And that’s why Spud loves Amelia. He likes a take charge no-nonsense woman.

Like I predicted yesterday, she’s got something on him.

Amelia is a precocious lass. I was like that, not in school, but a more adult than my age.

I love Amelia!

In stories and movies, the big scary challenger obligingly leans down for the hero to murmur in his ear, as here. Just try it IRL. Ditto the “angry mob” that goes politely silent long enough to hear a speech and be swayed (lookin’ at you, Marc Antony). I ain’t buyin’ it.

Gunther has already flattened one of Spud’s friends who threatened him; why wouldn’t he flatten another? This bothered me because the strip seems to be setting up Amelia to be some kind of feminist hero. If you get the bully to back off just because he’s afraid to hit a girl, that’s some pretty old-fashioned problem solving.

i need Amelia to teach me that threat, whatever it was.