Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for August 24, 2024

I don’t see Bigfoot in the trees this time. Batman, maybe, just behind the womperbaht.

Pronounced “Whomper butt.” Make sure you get it right.

With a Sousaphone

What are you going to wish for? Beware the Monkey paw.

I thought that was Snorlax.

Are you sure you don’t mean wombat? ’Cause if you wake it up that way, it will probably just emit square poops at you..

Oh Wallace, I feel you got some bad intel on this one. If someone woke me like that, good things would NOT be happening.

What we are looking at in that middle panel … is Spud’s next imaginary friend

I wonder if the bunny will get a wish.

The “Theys” in Rhode Island must be interesting people

That’ll do it

Seagull looks like he is all in. Tagging along to see what happend.

i wonder if it stuffs spud into the sousaphone

The only reason it will grant you a wish is to keep you quiet so it can go back to sleep. Be careful with that wish, however.

Looks like somebody’s imagination has been influenced by a recent viewing of “My Neighbor Totoro.”

I’d hate to be a womperbaht with a runny nose…

Spud found his spirit instrument.

spud being helpful as per usual

I wonder if it’s related to a Wumpus, or maybe the dreaded Snipe.

BUNNY!

I love the way Wallace always has his net when he’s out and about.

a Sousaphone like that one will wake almost anybody!

I’m up! I’m up!

This actually reminds me a lot of the Psammead from a story we read to with our kids last year called “Five Children and It” by E. Nesbit. He’s an ancient ‘sand-nymph’ who, when woken up, grants the children one wish a day.

The Psammead is described as having “eyes that were on long horns like a snail’s eyes. It could move them in and out like telescopes; it had ears like a bat’s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider’s and covered with thick soft fur; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkey’s” and whiskers like a rat’s.

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I just noticed the inset picture, the way Wallace is holding the net. It looks like he has it in some kind of salute posture, like a flag, as if he’s making a proclamation.

Low notes to me are more calm and relaxing than high pitched shrilly notes. I know those gas powered leaf blowers wake me up pretty good.

John Philip Sousa would be proud!

…..same as gold at the end of the rainbow!!!!

Hmmm…does Wallace come up with these things on his own, or does his dad invent them to get him out of the house?

Wonder what you could wake with a euphonium?

The coloring on the “Womperbaht” reminds me of a Dr. Suess book.

A French Horn ought to be good for waking a “whomperbaht”.

No group of humans could be more ridiculous or inspirational or important than these kids. Gahhh! As a former teacher, not janitor, i am regularly surprised at how much this comic gives me hope for the future. But this platform editing my “incendiary” language does not.