Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for February 15, 2024

ROSE! For heaven’s sake! Oh my stars, this just reminded me of a movie scene (can’t think which movie) where a young woman writes a love letter to one of her profesors and he corrected her grammar. Fortunately, Wallace is made of stern stuff and probably won’t even be offended.

Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ homeMy baby, just-a wrote me a letter, my baby just-a wrote me a letter

Sigh, Rose Rose Rose, you have a lot to learn about boys. Sit down honey and listen carefully…….

What are the odds that Rose, among all of the pressures she feels from having a perfectionist tiger mom, also has ADHD?

Is problemo a word?

Where does she think words come from?

Wallace speak

Oh, Rose…

Too much strictosome in her chromosome

“Grammatical”..?

Rose…

At least he took the time to actually write something. C’mon Rose, don’t let grammar eclipse the gesture.

I’m guessing that Strunk’s “The Elements of Style” is on Rose’s nightstand.

It is now!

I starting to think Rose has OCD.

Just leave it as ‘thank you’ Rose no need to correct grammar.

Sometimes, a little of Rose goes a long way. Maybe she and Spud should become an item?

Awesomatic-adjective The quality of being supremely awesome.

Awesomatically-adverb The state of having done something in an awesomatic fashion.

There. That takes care of that.

Of course awesomatic is a word!

But Rose, you ARE awesomatic.

Better curb that tendency girl if you ever want to have friends in life…..

Rose, you’re so awesomatic that you don’t realize awesomatic applies to you.

Love the “dramatic” scene on panel 3. Awesomatic is a word in my thesaurus.

Give it back, with a lot of additional red ink.

All words are made up and their meanings are determined by mutual consensus.

Cray-cray-nutso!

Wow. For a moment it looked like the beginning of a drama.

And another Valentine’s day spoiled by grammar.

Curse you, grammar!

It should be!

Awsomatic – A mental condition where awesome is mixed with psychosomatic…

Rose is more awesometric than awesomatic.

Hypercritical is.

Love the slightly abstract backgrounds, Will.

I love grammar, and my mind corrects it all the time. But I ignore the mind when it comes to conversational writing. (In spite of being an English teacher, I write like I talk, “gonna” being one of my worst offenses!)

Perhaps a real life Rose would outgrow her compulsions.

Yes, Wallace and Rose: “awesomatic” is a word, not just one recorded enough times to be popular or in dictionaries.

Well, it is now.

Shakespeare made up words that are in the dictionary >

Rose is no fun

All words used in comics should be official, including: kablooey, blammo, crrrick, scrack, blarrg, and awesomatic.