Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 05, 2016

Kelly Leak takes a break from his Harley to spend time with his three girlfriends. I hope Gil can talk him into joining the football team.

Abrupt ending to Tru, Boo and all. Guess baseball and softball teams seasons didn’t end well. The summer appears to be going much faster, maybe 3 panels long?

Summer doesn’t slide by here, it’s going past us in a blink.

Summer “slides by”? It’s felt as if we were stuck in a tar pit since May. We needed some industrial solvents to get unstuck and start sliding.

There’s your summer story…three panels long.

Is this the same Kevin Pekwecki who filled in nicely for the absent Barry Bader?

If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’d missed a week or two worth of strips. Summer didn’t just slide by it blew past like a rocket. Did Tru(e) finally head off to Wake for game 2? How many of those libraries got put up? What happened to the pickup driver? So many questions.

P3, The kid in the sunglasses must be the local drug dealer. They get all the chicks. Or maybe he’s the new mystery QB. Now that summer is over, I guess tomorrow football practice starts. No Mimi poolside in a bikini. What has this world come to.

That reader Mimi has in P1 is a little out of place given Milford’s tendency to be about thirty or forty years behind the rest of the world. Gil’s newspaper seems about right, so like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Let’s do the time warp again.”

Ooh, close to my prediction. One panel about summer “starting”, one referring to the golf club, one about the new student with a weird problem to develop/work on/magically fix/forget about. Then tomorrow we’re in the classroom.How about that touching farewell to Tru(e), who delivered a long sought after state championship to Gil? Man, that was quite an emotional goodbye.

P.4, Del Bader getting married in the yard at MILFord State Pen!

Time to spin the “Wheel of Thorp” for this new story arc. Where will it land?

@kdizzle: well played, Bravo, Bravo!Milford will have to forfiet the first game when it is discovered the seamstress that sews the names on the back of the jerseys is dyslexic and every player is an ineligible ringer.On the other hand, an invisible wide receiver would be tough to cover.

Dare we hope that the kid in second panel is one of the Thorpe kids?

P3- Mike Grainger starts off the new school year with a huge finger point. Mike Damone brokering hot Cheap Trick ducets. Twinkies are a favorite beachside snack.

P-1: Mimi gets drunk while staring sadly into her make up mirror.P-2: Gil arrested for asking under aged girl if she’d like to putter around.P-2: The finger of future INTRIGUE!

Question: In P-1, is that a pitcher of iced beverage or a weirdly shaped lava lamp?

P-3: 3 girls in swimsuits and one guy; can you say: “Let’s play Twister!”

Another dysfunctional kid to deal with! Kelly Leak! nice emac.

Tru(e) will be back. He’s dating Mom Radley now.

Looks like in Milford, summer vacation starts on Labor Day……………..

What is that girl on the far right holding in panel 3 ? And where is that guy’s right hand ? In fact. where is his left hand?

One panel of golf is better than none I guess.

One wrong move and Gil knocks his lemonade onto the deck. The Thorps must have an incredible thirst. Two glasses, plus a full pitcher close at hand?

Yikes, that big finger point at me makes me feel guilty. It would have been great if Rubham had made the kid say something like, “Hey you out there! Knock it off, this is a tough job!” And speaking of tough jobs, it’s not a tough job to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp. So just go ahead and click on it already!