![]() If you note a sense of optimism and hopefulness in a title that would usually cause some alarm (no one likes losing their way, right?), then you’ve nailed the very essence of this wondrously lovely comic strip which harkens back to the types of carefree childhoods evident in the comic strips like Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes (with which it shares a lot of surreal-adventures-of-a-super-game-for-anything-young-boy DNA) and Cul De Sac. Snug Harbor, in which the adventures of Wallace McLellan are set, draws much of its inspiration from Jamestown, and it’s honestly a delight to return to this piece of cosy small town America in the latest Wallace the Brave collection, Are We Lost Yet? If you’ve forgotten what that’s like, and honestly, it’s a hard thing to do hang onto (though not possible), then one way to get it back, at least for the time it takes to read 171 pages of comic strips is to dive into a Wallace the Brave collection, a love letter to the surreal innocence and fun of childhood by Will Henry (the pen name of William Henry Wilson, whose own growing up took place in the town of Jamestown, Rhode Island. ![]() One of them is that sense of carefree abandonment that comes with a loving childhood and secure family home – no matter how awful the world around us might be, and for this reviewer there were bullies everywhere 24/7 from kindergarten through to the final year of high school, you can take refuge in the endless possibilities and wonder of being a kid. There’s a lot of things we gain on our headlong rush to adulthood – increased self-choice, that special someone (hopefully), personal and career fulfillment all of them mostly good and wonderful things – but there are some very precious things we lose.
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