Today’s Wallace the Brave is uncharacteristically plain and simple. The end panels are even more so without Wallace in them. That’s curious. I miss all the beautiful pastels that usually decorate the strip.
Interesting how the first and last panel, which don’t show Wallace or the tire, don’t have borders or colour on the ground. This makes the last panel look like “did this just happen?” Very subtle.
I read into this strip a whole bunch of sentimentality on dad’s part. I think he’s watching his son do fun kid stuff, sharing in his childhood with the high five (and really feeling the gravity of that), and having the bittersweet realization that his kid won’t be a kid forever. I think it might be that desaturated simple panel at the end that made my own heart hurt a little bit. I adore it.
Wallace doesn’t get as many visitors or comments as say Luann (150+ 190 comments and 250 likes each day) so we have him all to ourselves for a while. At least until word leaks out. Shhh!
I get the comics on Washington Post’s Sunday edition. Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorites, along with Pickles sometimes. But Sally Forth or Judge Parker? Yawn, neither is funny.
saobadao about 3 years ago
Dads mostly don’t know what’s going on…Wallace’s dad, bless him, just goes along.
Ivy Valory Premium Member about 3 years ago
He has that “That’s my boy! I wish I could do that” look on his face.
Dirty Dragon about 3 years ago
The way Pop is dressed, he looks like someone from 100 years ago, driving a flivver. Though he could use the goggles, and maybe a scarf.
35&45 about 3 years ago
okay___
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HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 3 years ago
Today’s Wallace the Brave is uncharacteristically plain and simple. The end panels are even more so without Wallace in them. That’s curious. I miss all the beautiful pastels that usually decorate the strip.
Bullet Bronson Premium Member about 3 years ago
Wallace is seriously strange. In a good way.
Ida No about 3 years ago
Dad: “I’ve wasted my entire life. Do I remember where the nearest abandoned tractor tire is?”
crookedwolf Premium Member about 3 years ago
That pause before both hands are up… Don’t leave your kid hanging, Dad!
jschumaker about 3 years ago
Nice sound effects in panel 3.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 3 years ago
Aaand, go do it again!
Diat60 about 3 years ago
307jevans Premium Member about 3 years ago
Well that one’s going on the fridge
ottowald about 3 years ago
Maybe he sees something of himself in Wallace
Kawasaki Cat about 3 years ago
Wallaces dad probably wishes he could try it.
WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago
If the father was working on his lobster trap, he’d most likely be on the pier or close to shore? Close one for Wallace!
raybarb44 about 3 years ago
It’s one of his more safer adventures……
morningglory73 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Wallace can always find something to do. I half expected it to be Sterling instead of Wallace.
Alfred about 3 years ago
Interesting how the first and last panel, which don’t show Wallace or the tire, don’t have borders or colour on the ground. This makes the last panel look like “did this just happen?” Very subtle.
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 3 years ago
Boy fun.. don’t even try to figure it out.. it will only remind you of your own misspent youth when all you had was a stick to play with.
scyphi26 about 3 years ago
I’ve heard stories of kids doing this sort of thing “back in the day.” Doesn’t surprise me at all that Wallace eventually got the same idea.
ilovecomics*infinity about 3 years ago
I read into this strip a whole bunch of sentimentality on dad’s part. I think he’s watching his son do fun kid stuff, sharing in his childhood with the high five (and really feeling the gravity of that), and having the bittersweet realization that his kid won’t be a kid forever. I think it might be that desaturated simple panel at the end that made my own heart hurt a little bit. I adore it.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’m sure dad is sad he can’t do that himself.
Lauren Kramer about 3 years ago
With most dad’s I would expect them to be thinking, “WTF”. But Wallace’s dad is probably wondering if he can find a tire big enough for him to join.
Rosabell about 3 years ago
The changes in dad’s eyes through the panels said it all for me…
goboboyd about 3 years ago
ONE MORE TIME! Then a cup of hot cocoa, with two cups of mini marshmallows on top.
david_reaves Premium Member about 3 years ago
No seagull?
donwestonmysteries about 3 years ago
Wallace doesn’t get as many visitors or comments as say Luann (150+ 190 comments and 250 likes each day) so we have him all to ourselves for a while. At least until word leaks out. Shhh!
shamest Premium Member about 3 years ago
He is your son
Faustus Mitternacht about 3 years ago
Hey, it worked for Jean Finch.
Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago
Looks like he’s spitting the leaf out in the final panel.
MCProfessor about 3 years ago
I had many such moments with my three sons as they were growing up.
jimmjonzz Premium Member about 3 years ago
This: Understated. Evocative. Sweet. Uplifting. Beautiful.
Contradictions: Familiar / Rare… Simple / Complex
Me: Nuchal shivers. Moistened eyes.
Unpremeditated utterance: Oh. [Glossolalia?]
parkerinthehouse about 3 years ago
Laughing out loud all by myself hahHAAHAHA
Julian Dieter about 3 years ago
Hes hust like, wut just happened
wowzah about 3 years ago
where be the seagul
wordsmeet almost 3 years ago
I get the comics on Washington Post’s Sunday edition. Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorites, along with Pickles sometimes. But Sally Forth or Judge Parker? Yawn, neither is funny.