Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 20, 2018

I wonder what Mimi would think about Gil’s assumption that nobody would buy ads for a GIRL’s game! Sexism is still alive in Milford.

Panel 3: Marty swore on HIS “hair?”

If they really wanted Marty to learn his lesson, make him watch the Milford Pirate Network until his suspension is over

Another season ends with the aroma of a popcorn fart. Marty’s history with Peaches McClure and Holly Dobbs truly labels him as Milford’s Monk. P3- ….I still say Woodstock coulda done a better job of these drawings of little Wildcat and the Mrs..

P1, “Plus Marty has to watch online reruns of I Love Lucy and The Bill Dana Show and does at least one girls game a season.”

P2, I guess Marty will have to buy the ad time the Mexican restaurant might have bought until they heard about his broadcasts.

P3, Looks like two more weeks of winter before baseball practice starts. In Thorp time, that means mid-July.

This just in: neither team made the playdowns anyway.

Technically, if it’s a broadcast it’s a commercial. Ads are print.

Marty still defiant. He hasn’t learned a thing.

“I still say…” Which is what got you in trouble in the first place.

P-1: Great! I accept because it’ll be another 30 years until on line classes exist and who knows if that topic will be among the first.

P-2: If he quits smoking he could cover that for the equivalent of one carton. (Marty’s looking good in this one).P-3: Two weeks? Do I get credit for time served?

I don’t think the FCC regards it as YOUR air, bub.

I guess this is as close as we’re going to get to a wrap. Next week: Baseball! Or softball!

On the plus side, he only has to take an online course. He doesn’t have to pass it.

There only WAS one girls game this season.

Marty sees the date under his elbow, and decides to get an early start.

As for the online Latin American history course, Marty should use a quote from the movie “Crash”:

" Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?"

I yearn for a strip where Miss Douchey is asking Gil who the starting nine will be and move on from this silly story already.

So Marty decides what games the station is going to cover? I thought announcers went where they were told.

Maybe it’s time to just retire the Marty Moon character? It’s clear these guys don’t know how to write him, anyway: the whole storyline existed just to make him look like a jerk, but he came off looking sympathetic compared to the so-called “good guys”. Feh.

Oh cool, suspended even longer so that they insure no Milford games are broadcast. So tomorrow we’ll get a panel or two of wrap up and then a “Meanwhile…” to lead us into baseball season.

I hope the thaw comes to Milford soon. We need some baseball.