Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for June 27, 2024

She does he just won’t listen. And while I like this arc a lot, especially for the wallace nad rose content, I do feel he’s somehow learned nothing from being grounded last year nor his moms offers to destroy them in another way.

His dad is right

I also wonder why Wallace isn’t concerned about the environmental impact of his shoes in the ocean. I KNOW he loves nature

AND his Dad isn’t getting rich out there on the water. Shoes cost money his parents had to budget for. Wallace needs us to go have a little chat with him. We ride at dawn. ( it gonna take us a while to get back there)

“The thing I learned folks, and this is absolutely key: It’s not the thing you fling. It’s the fling itself. Let’s fling something!”

- Chris Stevens

Speaking of seagulls (were we?) Skippy by Percy Crosby has some interesting physiological thoughts about them today.

At least in their imagination, people could lay off the “should do” things for a bit

and away they go!

Old saying: You can tell a man in love, but he won’t listen.

What do all children have in common with a man in love?

I’ll bet Wallaces Dad wasn’t calling Spud “Spud” while protecting his cheddar.

At least save them as hand-me-downs for Sterling to destroy..!?

Love those night clouds!

Spud should try extra sharp, or swiss, instead!

Something about throwing rocks into the water really bugged my mother; she always told us not to do it. I can just imagine her reaction if I threw shoes in.

I got a chuckle from Rose’s comment about Mr. MacClellan.

I love free wheeling, devil may care Wallace. I’m kinda disappointed in stubborn, I’m gonna do what I feel like Wallace.

Which is probably how his mother is going to feel in the morning. Hate the sin, love the sinner.

FREEDOM!

I guess that’s why they call him “BRAVE”!!!!!

Not sure your dad meant that statement in quite that sort of context though, Wallace.

to a little boy last year does not exist :)

Wallace ought to take a lesson from this week’s Red and Rover arc.

I mean, we haven’t seen the shoes actually hit the bay yet. Given the contradiction of Wallace worrying about a balloon hitting the water (last Autumn I think) vs tossing his own shoes in there each year, I wonder if Mom won’t have commandeered Dad’s boat and be waiting to catch said shoes in tomorrow’s arc (or somethings equally hilarious).

Another observation – this feels to me like the last hurrah for the shoes-in-the-bay gag. The arc is happening at night – symbolic that the sun has set on this topic? – and he’s having to go way out of his way to make sure it’s done in secret – feels like this might be our last time seeing our boy throw his shoes, whether they make it to the bay or not!

He used to have a bigger audience on the annual shoes into the sea toss.

Noticed someone in a house in the distance calling out Will Henry’s name. A former lover?

Wallace does seem to learn some things the hard way!

…Cheerily, then, my little man,

Live and laugh, as boyhood can!

Though the flinty slopes be hard,

Stubble-speared the new-mown sward,

Every morn shall lead thee through

Fresh baptisms of the dew;

Every evening from thy feet

Shall the cool wind kiss the heat:

All too soon these feet must hide

In the prison cells of pride,

Lose the freedom of the sod,

Like a colt’s for work be shod,

Made to tread the mills of toil,

Up and down in ceaseless moil:

Happy if their track be found

Never on forbidden ground;

Happy if they sink not in

Quick and treacherous sands of sin.

Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,

Ere it passes, barefoot boy!

-John Greenleaf Whittier

Maybe Wallace listens to his dad’s advice in a curious way and thinks, ‘Sure, I’ll learn them later on in life, just not right now!’