Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 05, 2013

Umm.. Why are they not talking about why he doesn’t talk?

Hong Kong?! Oh man, they kill people there who don’t talk exactly!

Mark Walther looks so unlike the first strip he was in, two days ago, that he’s unrecognizable.

What’s the problem, can’t John Pascoe be silent in Chinese?

Whoa! The sinister-looking P3 guy responded to the sinister-looking P2 guy and then the sinister-looking P2 guy responded back! I think they may have just shattered the comic strip space-time continuum.

If he won’t or can’t speak seems like a place where a foreign language is spoken would be easy for him.

Mimi. Eavesdropping.

BBJ’s mother got transferred to Hong Kong, so he suffered an achy, brekke heart? Is that Kim Cattrall or Mimi in P1?P3- The aliens above Gil monitor the situation in stealth mode.

James Bond once told Tiffany Case he knew of a good tailor in Hong Kong.

Stepford Mimi in P1

John Brekke? That’s not some kind of urban slang for something really freaky is it? I mean, like, something you wouldn’t even want to talk about?

Geez, people. Everyone knows you take kids who won’t talk to Shanghai, not Hong Kong.

In all reality, Mr Walther is really flashing the gang signs in Gil s face. No reaction to them by Gil.

Gil just wants to know if they’ve doctored his medical records so this 24-yr. old mutant can give him 2 good years as a 2-way player. Playdowns hello, boosters KMA.

P2: Gil goes for the old ‘pick two’ eye gouge gag.

Wow, Mark Walther is talking to the future and the future’s talking back. A revolutionary new technique from Mr. Rubin!

The camera gets closer and closer each panel. When they finally get to the point in a few days it will just be a shot up someone’s nostril.

At first, I thought Mimi was telling us John Pascoe’s life story in Panel 1, but now I see that it was Mr. Walther’s elbow that was doing the talking. What was really confusing, though, is the flow of dialog from Panel 2 to Panel 3 and then back again. It’s like word-balloon roulette.

Well, well. The hand talks to the face (P2-P3)