Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for October 20, 2022

Cordyceps are dangerous only if you’re an insect, Spud, but, yeah, those things gave me nightmares when I was a kid …

Seagull knows his mushrooms.

I like the rock with the hole—low down this time.

Spud sure is Dale from King of the Hill (a paranoid conspiracy theorist).

Pore spores, those poor pore spores, who wants more of those poor pore spores? From the pore stores, those sore pore stores, you can get poor pore spores from the sore pore stores. Boring pore spores, they have bores, those pore spores, who wants poor sore boring pores from the pore stores? More?

Don’t want to be taken over by the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Sounds reasonable to me.

We’re getting Autumn wind this weekend. My allergies are bad enough as it is….

A lot going on in that brain of Seagull, apparently.

About a month ago this purple haired boy was singing the praises of pumpkin spice and sweaters in 90° heat. Now he’s protesting it!?

Myceliumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps

Don’t you work as hard as you play!

The conversation in the last panel is a hoot. It sum things up quite well.

I think Seagull speaks clear English when no one is paying attention: “the myceliumps.“

Since when does Gull speak?

Seagull speaks; in Spuds brain…

Spores from Pores !! … And now for S’MORES ??!! … :)

I’m with Spud on this one. There really is something called fungal pneumonia, and it is nasty stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal_pneumonia

I love Spud.

Medusa Mycelium?

Speaking of creepy fungus, I just finished re-reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and cannot recommend it highly enough!

What the…

Oh yeah, i want that

The imagination “spelled out” visually is one of my favorite parts of this strip =)