The Perishers save money. Actually there might be something in that; Wellington (unlike the majority of comic characters) has noticed that he and his friends never seem to get any older. On those rare occasions when he cheers up a small raincloud usually appears to dampen his spirits. An Old English Sheepdog who lives with his boy, Wellington. Boot is a generally affable and mellow character, given to flights of fancy and daydreaming. In this respect, Boot is the UK equivalent of Snoopy from Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" strip. Boot is also convinced that he is in fact an 18th-century English lord
The 5th Wave (comic strip) The 5th Wave (comic strip) The 5th Wave is a weekly gag cartoon by Rich Tennant, published on Sundays. Started in 1981, the comic usually deals with computers and technology. Tennant's cartoons regularly appear in the "For Dummies" book series, and have appeared in "PC Magazine" and "Computerworld", a magazine for which he worked from 1987 to 1999. Like most gag cartoons, Tennant's comics have no continuity, no recurring characters, and no storylines that continue into the next week. The name of the comic comes from "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. In this book, societies are listed in waves, e.g.,