Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for April 03, 2024

It’s (almost) ALIVE. …scary music

Finally! Closure.

Scorpion: “I will [wheeze] have my [cough cough] revenge. [gasp]”

I figured Mom ate it.

Next, the dramatic rescue and rebirth of the deadly pepper. It must be one tough plant to have survived.

Oh yeah I also forgot about that. And I can’t tell if Will Henry also forgot and turned it into a gag, or this gag was a yearlong build up. Either way, nice work.

Poor plant!

Attack of the zombie scorpion pepper!

It is now a zombie apocalypse scorpion pepper!

UT oh

That’s an interesting Missing flyer on the post in panel 1.

Careful, those things carry a grudge.

Ah Rose, but you WILL be interested, soon enough. Once that plant has regained its strength!

Da-doo – I was walkin’ in the wholesale flower district that day Shoop da-dooand I passed by this place where this old Chinese man Chang da-doohe sometimes sells me weird and exotic cuttings Snip da-doo‘cause he knows, you see, that strange plants are my hobby Da da da da da da-dooHe didn’t have anything unusual there that day Nope, da-dooSo I was just about to, you know, walk on by Good for youWhen suddenly, and without warning, there was this

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN

It got very dark, And there was this strange humming sound Like something from another world Da-dooAnd when the light came back this weird plant was just sitting there oop-see-doo

just, you know, stuck in, among the zinnias

I coulda sworn it hadn’t been there before, But the old Chinese man sold it to me anyway, For a dolla’ ninety-five!

Ruh-roh.

It’ll be back with a vengeance!

Surround yourself with people who ask questions but aren’t interested in the answer. It teaches you humility.

I’ve made a solemn promise, I will not plant!

Then why did you ask?

But the apocalypse scorpion pepper didn’t forget…

Water! I need WATER!!!

Is it almost entirely legal, this plant?!

dam*

“Its dead, Jim.”