Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for September 08, 2023

Gah, what else can go wrong?!

Oh Wallace, you really need to keep your mouth shut for a little while…..He’s so guileless he doesn’t realize.

It must still be Monday… two weeks later

Oh, my! This is getting nerve-racking!

Oil’s well that ends well.

One of these days when you should have stayed in bed with a good book (Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for example) and a hot chocolate. Boy do I feel for her. Even Sterling is looking a bit concerned.

Why are her hands so greasy? Because she’s rescuing your father!

Congrats to Will Henry for winning the 2023 Reuben Awards for Newspaper Comic Strip!

You all KNOW the dingy will spring a leak….

Mrs. Maclellan and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Hope that phone is in an Otter Box..

greasy hands from pawing around dad’s greasy shop

The tension is mounting with each day! When will Mom blow her top?

Mrs. MacLellan and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Ms. Maclellan is having a very bad day.

And Sterling is being very very quiet and…good?

I don’t see the fuel filter.

squirk, a seldom used wonderful word

Mom’s usually this troubled.

At this point I’d hand the filter to Wallace, tell him to get down to the pier ASAP, lock Sterling in a closet, and go back to bed.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse!

Storm slowly approaching Dad’s location

The hits just keep on coming….

Time to enlist that Search Party guy, Brandon Jordan !! … :)

Boys – RUN!

That made it even worse

Yo, Will! You get any merch?

Sterling’s nose on the gunnel cracks me up- plus those big eyes!

This is one of those days where you get everything that absolutely HAS to be done finished, get someone to watch the kids for the rest of the day, kiss the spouse on the forehead and shut yourself in the bedroom with a bottle of wine and appropriate snacks and stream the most brainless comedies you can come up with.

I sure hope she’s got the right fuel filter and that she didn’t just leave it in the truck.

Fetch, Sterling!

Into the drink! (“plip” is a such a good sound effect)

If this story arc ends with him finding a spare fuel filter onboard, and all these shenanigans being for nothing, I’m going to be very disappointed in this comic strip

This storyline is making me anxious

Dad knows how to sweet talk Mom when he’s in desperate need. :D

Mom’s explanation to the phone insurer: “Greasy hands while hero empowered.“

Kind of reminds of the Frank Grimes episode of The Simpsons. When the sane person enters the world of Wallace and Dad.

Oh, right, a mermaid will have no problem finding that phone again.

So first Wallace’s dad boat sinks, then his mom rips her shirt, gets her haircut by sterling, finds out the truck in out of gas, and now she loses her phone. What else can go wrong?

Mom will remember this day for a very long time.

oh. no. !!!

So strange that today’s episode of Science Friday (via NPR) included a mention of hyperhydrosis, which makes it hard for those afflicted to hold onto things “even phones.” The scientist of the day said there is no good treatment for it, and more research is needed. (So far, the temporary fix is Botox injections—“expensive and painful.”)

By this time I usually decide that the universe is trying to tell me something… though I don’t always listen.