Mr. Wad Sees the Red Sox Come in All Right—But They Were Not From Boston!

This Sunday strip follows Mr. Wad's mishap at a baseball park, where he mistakes a group of players for the Boston Red Sox. The six-panel layout uses speech balloons, captions, and sequential action to develop the joke across the page—visual conventions that newspaper comics pioneered in the early 1900s. The protagonist's exaggerated expressions and physical comedy reflect the slapstick humor dominating comic strips of the era. By 1911, Sunday newspaper comics had become a dominant medium, with artists developing the panel-based storytelling and character design that would define the emerging comic book industry.