Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for January 29, 2024

LOL Instead of stars over his head, Carl has spinning cold cuts.

Get em gary! You’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.

It’s the “Batman” sound effect card that I never knew I needed.

Could Carl have bitten off more than he can chew!?

Terrible sandwich metaphor. Sorry!

Could these two end up as friends?

I live in the UK and read a Scottish newspaper called The Sunday Post with a comic strip called “Oor Wullie” in. One of the strips had a wonderful use of printed fight effects and also stars. I have described it before on Nancy Classics, Andy Capp and Calvin and Hobbes:-

Wullie turned down an invitation to rollerskate with his “sometime girlfriend” Primrose. A blonde then asked him to rollerskate with her instead and Wullie replied, “Try and stop me, hen. I’m not bashful!” Wullie’s girlfriend had overheard this and tripped Wullie up. It then turned out that the blonde was two-timing a boy herself. Like Primrose, the boy took his anger out on Wullie. In the first panel of the bottom strip, Wullie had stars around his head and the boy was saying, “What were you doing with my lass, Doris?” Wullie replied, “Your l-lass, ooer!” The second panel of the bottom line had some English and Scottish words to signify violence – THUMP! SMASH! SKUD! BLOOTER! CRUNCH! BANJO! – and some more stars. The final panel showed Wullie with more stars spinning around his head and he now had a black eye, a lump on his head, bruises and a sticking plaster between his lump and his black eye. “Not bashful, eh?” scoffed Primrose, “You look well-bashed to me! Ha! Ha!”

Blooter is a Scottish word meaning “To hit hard”. “Blootered” can also be Scottish for drunk.

Bologna beat down

Now, Carl! Hit Gary with a loaf of stale pumpernickel! Use some of that wonderful Scottish engineering!

First time I see Gary this aggressive… I’m scared!

I laughed WAY too much at that last line, Carl!!

Huh, didn’t see that coming.

Poor Carl. Coldcocked with coldcuts.

Carl’s been taken out by the upper cut. Without Wallace, he’s gotten pretty crusty.

Has Carl met his match? Has Gary released the beast within him? Was that sub sandwich meant for Spud? Tune in next time for Sandwich Sir? or Balogna Beatdown.

Every saga has to start with a setback, so the hero can rise.

Gary is force to be reckoned with! He’ll subdue Carl with a sub!

That was an Uppercuts.

Wow, must be some very hard crust on that artisan bread sandwich.

Oh no! Gary is allied with a hero (sandwich).

“BOLOGNA” LMAO

This story is very weird but lots of fun!

Oh, the humanity! Stunned senseless by bologna!

The Hero of the day is the Bologna sandwich, much like the movie Troll 2

I am reminded that many years ago in the strip Bloom County Opus the penguin got into the news for hitting some threatening characters with an olive loaf he had just purchased. This is the first time since then that I’ve seen weaponized cold cuts!

Carl – strike back with a tube of dried Haggis!

Wow, some bologna! Worthy of a “Weird Al” Yankovich song.

Haggis on a bun?

It’s a GREAT sound effect if you mis-pronounce and say “boe-log-na!” Also, pretty sure that gloom/doom dripping “sandwich” in panel 3 is a threat.

You definitely should not eat that sandwich.

First round goes to Gary.

this didn’t go exactly as planned.

guess they’ll be friends now

what’s a few salami slices between friends?

This is the first comic in a long time I cant find the Gull.

this is a epic fight

Definitely a polite sandwich monster…..

I can’t believe that Gary just knocked the prosciutto out of Carl with a hoagy! A cold cut, indeed!

Maybe it’s a question of who has the stronger imagination – Spud or Wallace. I can’t believe Spud’s imagination is stronger than Wallace’s.

Never underestimate the fighting ability of a waiter who knows how to make sandwiches!

OK, now it’s just turning into one of Wallace & Spud’s elaborate combat fantasy games, with the fancy choreography, chants, and secret handshakes.

This. Is. Awesome!

Love it! ❤️

I think there might be bricks, as well as cold cuts, in that sandwich

Reminds me of playing cards as a kid with my cousins. Nothing more satisfying then calling one out with a loud BALONEY!

Poor Carl, Gary must’ve hit him with a bronze bread sammich.

Most violent scene this comic has ever had