Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for December 01, 2020

Spud vs squirrels in 3…2…1…

Spud’ll be on the ground before he even knows what hit him.

The signature 3D speech balloon “tails” in panel 1 are particularly graceful and charming today.

In panel 2, the use of color to emphasize alarm in Spud’s screech balloon ( or explosion?)… and the colored and shaded lettering classing up Wallace’s exclamation… are little free bonuses.

I love the sprouted signature in the third panel.

Oh, and (not) an afterthought, the overall art is its customary beauteous self.

We are being spoiled.

Where’d I get classing up from?

I love all the squirrels waiting for that granola bar!

Spud better not let up on the death grip..!

I wonder if the Snug Harbor fire dept. is about to get a call.

Squirrels love granola bars.I think Spuds in trouble

The squirrels agree.

It’s been awhile since I climbed a tree, but I did have a granola bar yesterday.

Sometimes we do need to just calm down and eat a granola bar

Food can solve so many problems….

Squirrels are evilness pure!

I guess these squirrels are tree-gulls!

These Wallace cartoons could be so improved by … by … um, er, OK, no. They cannot be improved. They are utterly, completely perfect.

In olden times when I was young and we did not have cameras with us everywhere we went, I used to fly RC airplanes. A favorite activity was to go out with my friend Marlin looking for interesting places to fly our sail planes. US 20 followed along the top of a high ridge, and near the highest point in Illinois, the ridge and highway made a broad right turn making a place that channeled the breeze and created an updraft. At the bottom was a spring with nice tasting water and THE GREAT OAK. What a tree! One day, the wind dropped, and I was too low to make it back to the top where I was standing. Instead, my red sailplane made it back to the very top of THE GREAT OAK. I left the remote with Marlin and began to climb. 40 ft up in that tree, the limbs were still so thick it was more like walking on a floor! I got to where I could touch it with my fingertips and managed to nudge it just far enough to fall. Marlin flew it to the ground and landed just on the other side of the fence. I did a lot of climbing that day. I saw a photo about a 300-year-old oak, and it was dwarfed by THE GREAT OAK. So I climbed the ridge, the tree and a fence that afternoon after work.

i think those squirrels have another plan for that granola bar.

Some of the squirrels look a little bit like cats with tails

Hey Gary, you’re master needs a snack!

That is one weird tentacular tree.

I have a feelin that spud is gonna join the dogs side on the war with squirrels

(Splat)