Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 23, 2017

So Aaron’s only eating well twice a month? His build would suggest otherwise.

Yep, I mentioned payday yesterday. He’s starving and still has money for raves?

So Aaron is too proud to apply for the free lunch program? Can’t he eat at Molly’s house or is she secretly poor also?

Did Granger run his hand through a table saw? Looks like every finger has been cut off at the top joint.

Momma actuary in back room getting him to throw games for money to live on?

Alright, kids, I called this hunger games thing a couple of weeks ago. What we don’t know is how the A Quad’s got into this situation. Was there a divorce and Mr. A Quad had the better lawyer? Or maybe he died and didn’t have a life insurance policy? Our 2 intrepid detectives still have a lot of work to do to solve this mystery. Luckily, well for them anyway, is that there’s still a few months left before baseball practice begins.

In all reality , whose the wise guy who drew a mustache on B K Brown’s face in P 2 ?

Why does Mike Granger have a blackened drumstick poking him in the eye in P1. And no, the color version doesn’t help with this.

When I was in high school, the teams didn’t have a locker room separate from the regular gym class lockers. Does the kid in the background in P2, hang his pictures up inside the door before every game or does Milford have a separate locker room for each sport? That school must be huge.

True Standish. Addison Radley. Swifti-Mart. Mysterious pick up truck. Hmmm. Perhaps an Aagard was the driver. Mrs. Lark’s wine club wants to know. Good call BStarfish and Dutchpuppy.

Okay – move along now. Present your theory to Gil, let him butt his nose in again, get them food stamps or whatever, and break out the baseball equipment. And speaking of breaking out, before you break out in a cold sweat, never fear, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is here.

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So as been said before, the apple juggling trick was just a ploy to get extra food. Which is kind of stupid – I mean if it was me I’d be juggling hamburgers or twinkies or something with a hell of a lot more calories!

As per SGODDDER, so Momma is running the book? If she laying off the bets to someone like Ransom, she’d be wearing cement galoshes by now.

These two should be called douche and douchier

What does a candy bar have to do with it??

Everybody likes Payday. It’s the nuttiest bar in town.

Marty can use the phrase “He’s playing on a full/ empty stomach” next game. I also enjoyed playing Payday in my youth. The deal for copper piping tripled your initial investment.

Okay going to the color version to check the ‘chicken leg’ that Starfish saw made me notice something else. In panel three Alfred E. Neuman has two thumbs instead of having an index finger.

Read today’s “MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM”………… you especially “CJ”.

Let’s say their money situation is desperate. Why the intense anger from both Aaron and mother when Gil came by to see her?