Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for June 20, 2024

That’s not the name of one of Saturn’s moons!!!

Amelia’s expression of fiendish and unabashed glee as she is about to be called …

She was hoping for the Sun. Had a bunch of " burn" jokes at the ready.

Hehe, funny planet name

Neptune?

I would have been interested in how Amelia might have interpreted ‘Uranus’.

But, but, but, Uranus is literally “God of the Heavens.”

The number of people who don’t get this is concerning.

Now they say it’s pronounced UR-a-NOOS. Trying to find a way to say it without embarrassment. Why not just change the name?

Wallace is the largest planet while poor Spud is a small one.

Give her Titan or Phoebe, at least.

So Amelia can be Titan, the only moon with a thick atmosphere. I’d take it.

Wait, I can’t find Uranus

Actually, a moon joke would be much the same as a Uranus joke.

Seagull is the Sun!! :)

I LOL’d WAY too loud at this, and almost disturbed the COL..!

C’mon, do it to scale.

The largest solar system drive in the world, I’m told, has the Sun represented by the telescope at Siding Springs observatory in Coonabarabran, from which you can drive to Pluto 200km away (it was a planet when the drive was constructed)

Being named for one of Saturn’s moon would be really rad.

Well, not completely rad, more rad-ish.

Amelia’s anticipation, followed by Mrs. MacIntosh’s quick thinking had me laughing out loud.

I’d like to be the Voyageur probe, leaving the solar system for endless space. (Otherwise known as daydreaming)

One of my elementary school teachers refused to say it, she’d call it Your-in-eas.

Aw, but she WANTED to be the next planet! And you can pronounce it “yer-uh-nuss”

It took me a second. Almost snorted my coffee.

I love Amelia’s smile in the third panel. She is like, “GIVE ME THE POWER OF IMPENDING DOOM!”

Well-played, teacher.

Oh! Right, right. Amelia was hoping to be Uranus.

She knew better than to hand that one liner to Amelia.

So instead of mooning the whole class, she can only moon Saturn

I still call Pluto a planet.

This is not Mrs. MacIntosh’s first solar system.

Jupiter and Saturn

Oberon, Miranda, and Titania

Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten

With ten grand-kids and three great-grand kids, RADISHES is my new cussword. Replaces all the great cuss-words I’ve had for the last 70 years. :)

Caelus. The next planet is Caelus. Let’s make Uranus use a Roman name like all the other Solar System planets. More uniform that way.

“Titan” works.

Leaving aside everyone’s obsession with Amelia’s Saturn moon, a lots of other nice details there: Will Henry rocks, Rose is a very practical person (earthly), Spud is with his head on Mars, and Wallace’s character fits Jupiter quite well :)

Biscuits!

U-ran-out-on-us. Or Nott-mi-anus. Or Urine-on-us…nope not that!!

Amelia is smarter than she lets on if she put herself in position 7 expecting the assignment of planet 7’s name. Mrs. Macintosh should have called her Titan. That’s a Saturn moon, it’s the second-biggest moon in the solar system, and it has a thick atmosphere the color of Amelia’s hair.

anyone who knows… you know

I like the colored speech bubbles. Perhaps she used a different pitch for each planet =)

Too few planets, way more children.

If Mrs. Macintosh named the moons along the way Amelia could be Io.