Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for August 01, 2021

A charming Beneficence for us readers. Just when you think you’ve got those two pegged… especially her… Surprise!

Totally in character for both but still Unexpected.

The details would be boring, but four of us in my college dorm used similar outlandish costumery… and ritual mummery, chanting, incense, and fire… to freak out the pizza delivery kid.

Coincidentally, the record on the turntable that night was…

Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

The seagull looks pleasantly surprised at Amelia.

Delivering the Dynamite!

Tonk tonk!

I love the the fact that Amelia studied and wrote everything.

And Rose and Spud just observe from a safe distance.

Freaking out the tourists is usually just Amelia’s bag, wonder how she got Wallace to go along. He seems much more a befriend the tourist kind of chap.

The choice of music will really make it all work!

I think the horseshoe crab shell helmet is a nice touch.

I think the horseshoe crab helmet is still a little ripe..

Nice :) Somehow I get Groucho Marx vibes

Sounds like a nice way to spend the afternoon

I would have had a pack of children if I could have been guaranteed they’d be like these!

I get the feeling that his mother would approve. LOL

I mean, the locals gotta have fun during the tourist season too.

You ARE the Man……

Whats on his head?

Truly bizarre but I think he’d need to be an adult to really freak people out.

Wallace is in Rhode Island but you could see the same thing in Provincetown MA every time they have a Pride parade.

The tourists will think -What an odd little man!

I wonder how many more tourists have fallen for Amelia‘s “peach” prank.

love it

Another excellent Sunday comic – but what blew me away this time is a totally mundane part: the ground in the middle panel. For some reason, when I look at the ground, with the dirt, the pebbles, the stray shells and tufts of grass, and then the side of the little beach hut, I feel like I’m there. I’ve been in those kind of settings before, as have most people I’m sure, and suddenly I’m reliving my childhood feelings, where everything seems so immediate and full of meaning. OK, so I’m waxing poetic, but this strip just brings it pouring out of my memories. Thank you yet again, Will Henry!

Time to make life surreal!

Yep, if I were a tourist I would probably stop and stare for a moment.

They’ve lived sheltered lives imagining that that is going to freak out many people.

That would do it.