Generally, Richard Thompson’s rendering of the Otterloop parents is wonderful, and Mrs. Otterloop is otherwise depicted as a great mom - centered, understanding, and gently playful. Mr. Thompson, who was a certified genius and whose humor was almost always spot-on, needed Mrs. Otterloop to say what she did in the first panel in order to get to the punchline in the third panel-and the payoff, as it turned out, wasn’t worth it. Even geniuses sometimes miss the mark!
I love the girl on the left in the first panel breaking the huddle with Wallace’s team even though she’s on the other side of the ball. Just one example of those tiny subtleties that makes Mr. Henry’s strip so brilliant.
Brilliant work here, as always—though growing up I never, ever met a kid who would have insisted on keeping his He-Man or Skeleton action figure in the box!
The vulture in panel 3 is further evidence that Will Henry is a genius.