Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for December 29, 2022

I live 3-4 miles from an active volcano. Sometimes the wind shifts. You know it’s not snow because: 1) It’s still July. 2) Ash doesn’t melt on your tongue.

Exactly our reaction in San Jose, CA, when it happens about once in a generation

Garfield once mistook ash from Jon’s (unnoticed) burn pile for snow when about to catch a bit on his tongue. (Also, know of any winter volcanic eruptions?)

Guyladriel sez: “I always use pyroclastic flows to exfoliate.”

Spud needs therapy reeeeally bad!

I love the exclamation points in the background!

It’s just fallout.

Spud, that’s the natural hazard you least have to worry about!

I love the coloring of Spud’s speech balloon in panel 2.

Sounds like this is a yearly occurrence for Spud. Or does it happen with any fresh snowfall?

One big difference. Snow, OK to use windshield wipers. Volcanic ash, do not use windshield wipers.

Spud, you’re at 11. Can you drop it down to about 4?

Spud’s stress level must be at 11

Spud’s face in panel 2 is magnificent!!

Not since 1980.

Enough documentaries on Pompei for Spud.

Do they even have a major volcano in their region?

Spud’s just engaging in some wishful thinking.

We had ash fall in Portland when Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980 but it was only flurries.

Is Rhode Island inside the Ring of Fire?

Has Spud been watching too many disaster documentaries about Yellowstone? That’s the only volcano that could throw ash as far as Rhode Island, unless one went off in Iceland and the winds for some reason went west, not east nor south or north.

With everything going on in the world, I was wondering if he was referring to fallout at first. Linus had the same reaction the first time he saw snow – thought it was fallout from WW3.

You’re in the Northeast, Spud. Geology is on your side here.

Take your Benadryl, Spud. Or let go of the psilocybin already. :D

It is volcanic ash though