Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for January 24, 2021

Sterling, making a little speech before joining his loyal subjects.

(Whispered)….turn around…

Awesome! This gave me the biggest laugh. Thank you

Sterling returning to his natural habitat and being released back to the wild

Sterling: “It’s not an eel pit, that’s true. But it is still a chance for me to join my people.”

Well, at least he’s not getting his clothes wet.

It looks like all the fish are looking up at Sterling and making room for him to jump in.

Cowabunga!!!

The. Best. Cartoon. Ever.

Fish eat worms, Sterling. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

So much to love here.

I think the cat and the closed/open sign are fun things. The cat has two eyes but still puts me in mind of Elvis singing Shake Rattle and Roll. “I’m like a one-eyed cat, peepin’ in a seafood store.”

Riddle… She wears a crown but is not a queen, she has scales but is not a fish; Who is she?

Or if not a Queenfish, maybe this is George “Kingfish” Stevens?

Yes, I agree with the idea that this tableau is a reference to one of the Sterling Secret Origin stories in which he was pulled out of a lobster trap looking more piscine than human, more like the feral humanoid amphibian Gill-Man.

“I heard a big splash. Thats when I got in the tractor and drove up here.” (Richard Pryor as “Mudbone”)

Kingfisher.

His clothes laid out so neat somehow takes the edge off him for me. & his cute tooshie!

I’m so glad I read this on my phone. I had to zoom in and scroll across panel by panel, and I had no idea what they were staring at until the very end! What a great payoff.

Wallace and Dad’s eyes meet in the fourth panel. A great moment.

Love it!

Oh, my!

SPLASH!!!!

Can’t take that boy anywhere…

Sterling does so like to grandstand.

HAHAHAHA!!

Toupee? Never even noticed. Sorry, gotta run.

You’d be much more attractive without the toupee, you know.. wait, what?!

Mr. Henry says his ideas often come from personal experience…

This strip has become one of my favorites. I wonder how well it would transfer to animation?

Why’s a fisherman buying fish at a store?

Stirling at his stirlingest!

Is he the King Fish or does he see the King Fish? In any event, he hasn’t a care in the world, God love him. This will be a tale to be told throughout the ages. However, Wallace is very lucky that his mother is not there…..

At this point, I think they’re quite content to let the worker keep thinking they’re staring at his toupee (which honestly isn’t that unjustified, as it really isn’t that convincing) while they try and figure out what to do about the Sterling situation…or if they should just leave now and pretend they have nothing to do with him, because, c’mon, there’s gotta be a temptation to do that sometimes.

The Shape of Water – prequel.

I have no words. XD

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!

Does sterling even wear underwear!

It is not all about you.

The mistake was leaving the seagull outside and bringing Sterling in.

Life with Sterling is never boring.

See, Mom would be all over this, but Dad and Wallace are like, lets see where this goes…..

Sterling is obviously homesick.

Thanks for the great laugh!

As a parent there is a specific moment of dread … it is right when you realize that your child is about to do something disastrous, and that you figured it out … just … too … late. :-)

Will Henry’s mind must be an interesting place. Terrifying at times, but always interesting I’d guess.

Cat!

The fishmonger may be happy it wasn’t his toupee they were looking at.

I don’t see Will Henry’s signature anywhere, does anyone see it?

Strangely enough, just yesterday I read about an early Rhode Islander (born in Portsmouth) whose name was “Preserved Fish.”

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

(I also like the little cat’s face pressed against the glass on the left of the last panel.)

Is that a little doggie resting on a cushion in the furthest right section of the under-counter storage? Sure looks like it to me. Another Sunday saver strip!

The feral one strikes again. Go King of the Fishes!

HAHAHAHA – you know it’s hard to get the eyes just right so you can believe where they’re looking

Now that’s the way to do it Sterling au natural.

It’s the rarest thing for a strip to be laugh-out-loud funny. What a treat!

Go Sterling! You be you! You’re a natural.

Now that’s what I call a COMIC STRIP

Genius strip, made me laugh out loud. The power of mistaken perspective, Mr. Toupee.

This has the highest likes, so far, as I work backwards through this year’s WTB!

HAAAAAAAA!