Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for January 10, 2024

Isn’t he awfully young to have nose hair?

Eventually you’ll start growing ear hair as well, Spud, and that will be equally disgusting.

Spud was born an old man. All he has left for him now is the development of an insatiable desire to talk about cheese.

You can trim it off, Spud.

What inspired this story line?

You don’t have nose hair if you have to tilt your head back to see it.

Spud should start growing a mustache and then the nose hair won’t be so noticeable.

It’s always funny when little boys first discover their … nose hair..!

Wait until your eyebrows start to grow out of control and look like two rolls of barbed wire.

“Gimme a nose with hair, long beautiful hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen. Give me down to there hair, Shoulder length or longer, Here baby, there mama, Everywhere daddy daddy, nose hair.”

He’s going to need a weed wacker for those locks

Welcome to Spud’s Crisis of the Day.

In my Southern vernacular , That boy ain’t right.

One sneeze, and Spud will look like a party favor!

Fetch the pepper!

Cuticle scissors. Magnifying mirror. (That, or grow a mustache!)

Does Spud have hair in other parts of his body as well?

Personally, the part of having nose hair I hate is every now and then having one of the hairs tickle the inside of my nose, aggravating my allergies and overall making me more miserable about it.

I feel sorry for him when he gets my age. Stay young kid and enjoy it while you have it…..

…a wall-to-wall carpet?

Spud is Snug Harbor’s Benjamin Button.

Think of it as a Mustache!

With those natural gifts, Spud should learn Hanage Shinken (Super Fist of the Nose Hair.) He could become an unstoppable force for good.

I’ve seen people where the hair on their heads seem to be migrating to the nose and ears

I feel your pain Spud!

Wait till he’s older. He’ll have hair growing out of all sorts of places.

Who’d have thought Spud would be the precocious one?!

Love that his nose hair is tinted the same lovely shade of mauve as his hair. Leave it to Spud to coordinate body hair color!

I wonder where else Spud will find hair growth as he gets older. They sure can come out of unexpected places!

The round red thing Spud is holding makes me think of a ball game called “Spud,” which was taught to us on the grade school playground eons ago. The one who catches the ball has to toss it and tag another player under certain rules, one of which is that the players who run away have to freeze in place as soon as the ball is caught. I think. When I first saw this strip in the paper minus color, I thought the ball was a tambour, or perhaps a wheel of Dutch cheese.