Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 22, 2018

Judging from the first message, it will take about 15 seconds to post the second one. I wonder if he will go to worship it like he did before.

Well, it’s been awhile since I criticized the art, but that rim and net are in a mighty odd position relative to the backboard.

Going for that hard to capture Jerry Lewis look.

P3 Don’t look like it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for Gil as the pressure for him to resign mounts. Kind of like Penn State ant Joe Pa..time to hit the road jack!!! Let’s get Milford on top of the Valley Conference like the good old days.

Wait til Marty Moon jumps on the bandwagon!!!

P2, You need some work done on that crab claw, too Gil.

P2, BStatWhiz plots his next move at the Copyright Cafe.

P3, Sign Man will be rolling in Christmas money this year.

In all reality , where is Mopman in P1 he should be out on his highly polished award winning basketball court yelling Get off of my court with your street shoes on ! Hey guy wearing stilts and you too Thorp get the hell off the court , you know how long it takes to polish it ?

Lemme guess… he wants Thorp’s job – either for himself or someone else.

P2- I see Marty aligning with BStatWhiz after having a few more Bailey’s & coffee. And hitting on Mullet Girl.

Wait – the mug in P2. It really does say “Copyright Café”? They must read MUT!

P2: one of the GoComics commentators makes a cameo

Can any of you remember how old the Thorp kids were when they “disappeared mysteriously from Milford and memory”? Is this kid one of them grown up and getting back at his father for doing whatever was done to him and his sister (right? there was a sister too wasn’t there?)

Vito from Goshen has moved his man in to start getting this Thorp has-been to start paying attention to the spread. With legalized betting in the future, Vito wants betting kiosks in the bleachers, and this Thorp guy all-of-a-sudden wants a piece of the action. Says he has some burly backup.

Geez, it’s the freaking weekend BStatWhiz! I’ll get to it on Monday, you can’t rush genius!

Was the old billboard long enough for everyone to see? And will they remember it? Obviously didn’t learn anything from Burma Shave

Perhaps this kid is related to Wildcat Maris

Haven’t seen a candy bar phone in a while.

In panel three he’s morphed from Robert Irvine to looking more like John Denver.

P-1: Nobody notices that the kid behind Gil has an amazing vertical leap

No update this fine Monday morning, December 24?

The Mudlarks showed they won’t quit. Rubin and Whigham, on the other hand…

Don’t we the readers deserve better??

Sorry everyone, my fault! I haven’t finished the new billboard yet. Give me another hour or two.

Mopman. Isn’t it better to give than receive? We sure could use a MUT Christmas edition.

Jerry Lewis has an agenda and apparently a big grudge against Thorpe.

Is the GoComics site closed for Festivus? What’s going on here?

Hey, is that Marty Moon in the background in P2? His anti-Gil radar went off, he can smell an opportunity to take down the big guy.

In all reality , was that Gil and MimI being forced into a beat up panel van by masked gunmen in the Milford Mall parking lot last night and I thought I saw the driver who looked a lot like Jamie Thorp .

Oh well….. “Merry Christmas” all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMDMLF2j1A

…as a paean to the old days, a quick time out to my fellow Thorpians for a safe, hale and hearty Christmas.Perhaps by tomorrow R & W will have slept off their Holiday cheer and we can be back to the snark we richly deserve.

I guess there was a delay in getting the second message up….no update today

It is updated on the color version on AZ comics. Here’s a link to Gil:

http://comics.azcentral.com/slideshow?comic=Gil_Thorp&feature_id=Gil_Thorp

Damn you Go Comics, where is Gil Thorp and his Christmas message? The same place as the Thorp kids and the dog? The color version is up but we can’t snark on that.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight.

In all reality , Merry Christmas to all .

Nooooo! We’re cheated out of the one time out message we get all year? C’mon, GoComics, why is it only this strip? We’re sorry, we’ll stop being so mean!

If only the strip were here. I worked all night on the gym floor, I spelled out “Merry Christmas, Commenters!” in an extra bright floor shine.

Color version: http://comics.azcentral.com/slideshow?comic=Gil_Thorp&feature_id=Gil_Thorp

That’s a weird wish, I haven’t heard it phrased that way before. Other observations…First, it looks like they poured gasoline on their fireplace logs. And second, who’s the blondie? That ain’t Mimi! And finally, HE DIDN’T CALL TIMEOUT!!!! I’ve been waiting a year for that!

You all shouldn’t have been so mean. We are shutting this thing down and now you will never know how it turns out with the anti-Gil signage campaign and Mike’s depression—so there!

Merry Christmas to the few people who still remember me!

Okay, my 1 minute break is over, back to sewing more “State Champion Gil Thorp” shirts.

Hah! Hah! As GilPa wishes The Snark Nation a Merry Christmas, the internet ninja holds the mistletoe over the head of big lug Kaz. Tapping a few keys is not enough for this little frisky.

Mmm, Gil’s mug has fiery orange whipped cream.

Merry Christmas, all Thorpaholics!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope yours is better than mediocre.

I know Rubin and Whigham aren’t taking the week off; so what’s with GoComics? I saw the colorized version on AZComics, but I want my B&W fix! Not to mention the daily brilliance of the comments. Get with the program, GoComics!

Today’s sign: “Merry Christmas to all you Thorpaholics!”

Merry Christmas, fellow Thorpsters!

Kaz’s favorite Christmas song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySQhNplzxk

Maybe try updating?

OK, now I’m worried….anyone check the obits?

Has GoComics stopped offering the strip? Now 12-26-18 and no new strips since 12-22.

In all reality , is this the end of snarking Gil Thorp ? It was fun while it lasted .

Gil read the second billboard. Left in a hurry. Trending this moment are #Where’sGil, #FollowtheMoney, and #IwantaGilmug.

Anyone know what’s going on? No updates since the 22nd.

did the strip just stop? No updates for a while.

12/26/18- The Milford Kettleheads take a roadie to face the Mad Hatters of Danbury coached by Les Miles.

Are people not reading the comments here before asking “is this strip over?” Well, obviously not, and they won’t read this either. Multiple people have mentioned it’s being updated on other sites. This has happened before on GoComics, where a strip isn’t updated for a while, then resumes. Don’t remember if it’s happened to this one or not before.

Happy Boxing Day everyone!

Maybe R&W raised their royalty rates and GoComics refuses to pay because they think it will be used to build a wall between Gil Thorpe and Mary Worth. SHUTDOWN!

All I know is Seattlepi.com has a colorized version the night before many days. So R&W are probably weeks ahead. That is why their seasons run long. They write and draw it in real time

Surprise! Remember me? Yes, it’s Jami, and my sister Keri is with me. We’re holding Rubin and Whigham hostage until our demands our met. First, we get to return to the United States. Second, we get introduced back into the strip, resuming our co-star roles from many, many years ago. Third, a free year’s supply of Hoo.

These demands better be met, if you ever want to have your need for bland storylines satisfied.

MAD HATTERS?….. so Gil is lost in Wonderland with Alice?

So there is a Dansbury High School in Connecticut – another long road trip for Milford. I guess it’s not a coincidence that the real Dansbury’s nickname is the Hatters. Their logo does look mean too!

https://dhs.danbury.k12.ct.us/about_us

OK…Thorpians, where is the new gathering place?

In all reality , to quote the late great Senator John Blutarsky , Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor , No , It’s not over until we say it’s over !

If we’re going down, go down swinging. 12/27/18 P1- Mike Filion looks like a towhead version of Alfred E. Neuman. You Thorpmeisters better listen to the gritty, gutty Filion and toughen up.

Today’s game is a road trip against the Mad Hatters. Meanwhile, the girls’ team hosts the Mona Lisas.

The last giant billboard is Gil giving the middle finger while showing off all his State Champion trophies. Kaz and his his posse are flashing giant State Champion rings on every finger. Sales of GIL mugs to suddenly disenfranchised Thorpians are financing billboards in every Miford in America. Trending, and a topic for a LarryKing tweet – #freegeriatriccoaches.

Still stuck on 22 Dec w2K18=\=\=\/%*

Someone told me that mediocre was not good enough, so we’re not getting any Gil Thorp until the writers shape up.

We’re stuck here, like with Peanuts Begins a few weeks ago?

An information-filled response from GoComics:

AMU Agent 02, Dec 27, 11:50 AM CST:Hello,

We are working on resolving this issue.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you,GoComics SupportAndrews McMeel Syndication

From: JerryPulver

Profile ID: 1291767

Reason for inquiry: Technical Support_____________________________

What has happened to the Gil Thorp strip? It has been stuck at 12/22 since, well, 12/22. The current strip is available on other sites, but I do prefer to read all my strips on GoComics. Please help!

Sorry everyone, this second sign is taking a lot longer than I thought. I’m trying to do an A+ job, which people in Milford are not used to.

Why isn’t this strip updating?

I think the Van Buren Boys stole the strips.

ok, today is 12/27 and Comics Kingdom and the Post Intellencer site are 3 days further along with this story line athan is GoComics WHAT GIVES?

Milford has the lead, 7 seconds left. . . Butt Pirate Radio signing off until tomorrow.

12/28/18. P3- Gee GilPa. You could be more cosmopolitan if you gave last second advice of you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish. That would be slicker than the Blue Grecian Formula you’re sporting.

In all reality , Breaking News — A huge blast followed by a fireball that lit up the Milford sky destroyed the controversial billboard . No further details are known at this time .

Let’s see – no way they win this game, otherwise it doesn’t provide the ammunition for that third billboard. The Mad Hatters with a miracle shot at the buzzer and Milford goes to 0-2.

A whole week without a new strip?

I think I am stuck in a vicious time loop, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day… Every morning I get up, and as is my usual routine I open the laptop and go directly to GoComics and Gil Thorp. But, for the last week, every morning and Gil Thorp strip has started exactly the same. HELP !!!

Ha. Go Comics thinks that they can stop us from making smart a$$ comments about GT but we will just keep commenting anyway, even if it is the same strip every day

On the plus side, this strip will take the lead for the most Gil Thorp comments ever. Surpassing the miraculous State Championship one. Which I have not gone back to find, but I know it had a ton of comments.

NOW I’m worried, fellas….this is a conspiracy against the snarkers, I say R & W engineered it!

Are they ever gonna restart this ????

Last second shot by the Mad Hatters. . . Oh well, wait ’til Monday.

Mop Man, you may have to go back to some of the strips you haven’t MOPPED yet and start doing those to keep us entertained until CK gets this fixed.

Why is this site a week behind?

In all reality , in the Central City Christmas Classic Milford is quickly eliminated by losing its first game by 23 points to Garbageville. ATF investigators continue to search for clues at the billboard bombing site. Marty Moon has been strangely silent in his criticism of Gil.

If you want to catch up where gocomics won’t: https://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Gil_Thorp/2018-12-29/

I have 7 strips in the “Comics I Follow” section and Gil Thorp is the only one that hasn’t updated since 12/22.

Relax, everyone! This is Gil Thorp. When we get the strip back only ten minutes will have elapsed.

Looks like a loss coming up. More fodder for the billboards.

holding my breath for the strip to come back. Starting to turn blue.

12/29/18- Where is the 3 point line? The ants traveled with The Fighting GilPa’s, covering the walls of Danbury Hall and the ball, thus affecting the desperation heave by Danbury. The 1 and 1 Mudlarks ascend to mediocrity.

Comics Kingdom has the score 59-58 in the final seconds of the game.

Hey, has anyone else noticed that there have been no new strips posted here in an entire week? Have you? Have you, huh? I’m the first to notice this, right?

I think this started with the slogan on the billboard, asking whether mediocre was good enough. That got the GoComics staff to thinking, “Yeah, why should we bother refreshing this strip on a daily basis? Let’s just leave dull enough alone.”

Day 8 of the Thor p shutdown

What’s happened to the current updates, new strips???

Meanwhile tickets for the Milford Odd Fellows New Year’s Eve Gala Celebration featuring Milford singing sensation Rick Soto are sold out ,in all reality .

Uh, R&W? Did someone forget to pay the rent?

I’ve been following GL on Seattle PI site [comics kingdom] has the story line six days advanced to the final seconds of the game against Danbury…GoComics has screwed its readers out of an entire week of GL story line.

Has anyone noticed this strip hasn’t been updated all week? Maybe someone could report it, or check if it’s updated on other sites.

Enough of the tolerance, gents, how do we proceed? Surely someone on this august board must have a IQ in three digits?Who can lead us? Mop, you seem like a William Wallace type, what say ye?

Whom do we call, insult, harass here sir? Your realm looks to you, Mopman, for the leadership and trolling skills required to get this space back to us, the snarking nation forged in the fire of bad story lines (Herk, Peacock, etc) and forgotten characters (Brody Abro, Kenny Lark, Wildcat Marist).Leader Mop, how do we proceed?

During a newspaper deliverers’ strike in New York in 1945, Mayor LaGuardia read the comics to the kids over the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKtfaTz_HC0

Maybe Mopman or somebody could post audio here reading the missing Gil Thorp strips in a LaGuardia-like manner.

T minus 90 minutes until we find out if the strips start appearing here again…

Basketballs hitting backboards don’t go “thump”. Especially when they’re Nerf basketballs.

In all reality , I predict that as the chrome bowling ball drops from the roof of Bud +Lou’s Milford Bowling Alley, Pawn and Gun , Package Good and Tavern signaling the start of 2019 ,this strip will be updated .Stay safe and sober tonight ,please don’t drink and drive.

C’mon Gil, basketballs don’t take odd bounces. If it was deflected, that’s not odd. Your team didn’t cover everyone, smug guy in P3 has a point!

12/31/18- P1. What Bitsy said. P2. Thorp answering a question, is unaware that Marty’s Mr. Microphone is a razor/trimmer, poised to cut off Gil’s spiffy red tie. P3. BStatWhiz continues to exact his revenge on GilPa for nixing his distribution business.

12/31/18- How long until baseball season? Will this site be updated by then?

O-2 and now the losing can begin in The Valley. The Mudlarks should be out of playdown contention by the end of next week. I wonder if we’ll get to see it happen here?

Well, Go Comics, your ploy of trying to stop the snarking of Gil Thorp has failed miserably. Might as well give us back our strip. We will not be denied!

Dear Go Comics, the Gil Thorp Strip seems to be buffering. Could you please re-boot?

Speaking of rebooting, Mr. Boffo had a strip a couple of weeks ago where he asked his computer frustrated wife if she had ever considered turning it off and then never re-starting it.

“You are what your record says you are.” ~Bill Parcells

It must be tough playing a game with egg-shaped basketball rims.

To all you Chicagoans I have two words for ya’ today………"Da’ Bears!"

Just a quick timeout to wish you all a Happy New Year!

P1, Milford now 1-3 after beating Goshen and losing to Valley Tech. Playdowns not looking good. Again. Nice shine on that floor though, Mop Man!

P2, The editor at The Milford Star wonders about the cryptic billboards and I wonder about his cryptic hand cramps.

P3, First giant hand of the new year. HFNY Thorpians!

There wouldn’t be a fish left in the ocean if they went Gil-less for this long. C’mon Go Comics, get it together!

In all reality , Happy New Year. In regards to the lack of updates perhaps the same malware which is affecting the Chicago Tribune has struck Go Comics .

1/1/19- Former Coach Matt Shaw employed at The Milford Star? At least one Fist Pump Family member has a job at the paper.

happy new year gang, I hope the Seattle PI site has this year’s/ aka today’s strip, GoComics has 1ce again dropped the Gil Thorpe ball.

its been 10 days since a continuing line as to what happens next. Did Neal & Ruben quit writing the comic?

Maybe it’s a ransom ware attack. Start showing non-asinine stories or we will lock this comment page down

A Happy Healthy New Year to All!

Okay, okay, here we go. Peer pressure worked, let’s see how long this lasts. Starting with December 13th, I just posted five new episodes of Mopped Up Thorp! My goal is to catch up to the current strip by the end of the week.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Gil: Arapahoe is who we thought they were!!!

Jan 2 strip up on the Seattle site nothing here yet

Meanwhile , Rubin and Whigham plan a cyber attack on moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com and cleaning fluid fire for the Milford gym ,in all reality .

P1, BStatWhiz will spill the beans to the Milford Star after the next billboard goes up.

P2, Mr. That 70’s Show gets ragged on in the hall.

P3, Uh-oh, looks like one of Gil’s “star” basketball players is flunking out. And where’s the GIL mug?

P2 – Kettlehead! Again with the risque language!

P3 – If that’s a standard door frame, then that lady is just about 7’ tall and over 3 feet wide.

1/2/19. Gee. Missed it by that much. I thought Kettlehead meant Filion was a Ma & Pa Kettle fanatic. Well done Mop. Your efforts are illuminating.

GoComics’ Gil Thorpe is SOO 2018

Anti-Bullying seminar coming up.

Be Best!

Okay, the revived (for now) Mopped Up Thorp now has entries from December 13th through December 22nd, which is the last strip here on GoComics. I’ll start on the rest later.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

I finally figured it out…GO COMICS will not publish a new Gil Thorpe strip until the government shut down ends.

01/02/19 P3: Much like I do to my co-workers, conversation can wait until I finish that cup of coffee from my “State Champion Gil Thorp” mug.

I have it all figured out GO Comics is withholding all new Gil Thorpe strips until the federal shutdown ends.

I may have to re-write my re-write of “Clap for the Wolfman” from “Clap for the Moon Man” to “Clap for the Mopman” after reading all those MUT’s! Excellent work Herr Mopman!

Doesn’t tanking a test mean he did poorly on purpose? I don’t get it.

Gil drank, Filion tanked and GoComics stank. 6 more comments til 300! Snarkers are go!

Er, if a student is late with homework and flunking tests, why would the teacher go to see Gil about it instead of talking with the student? Gil can’t be bothered even to do his own job, much less someone else’s!

When this whole site was down earlier, I thought they might be fixing things, but noooooooo!

P1, Hmm, looks like Mike Filion could use some of that Placeberol BStatWhiz used to hawk before he started buying billboards. Oh, and again, where’s the GIL mug???

P2, Not to mention tanking a game.

P3, Looks like Kaz’s elbow is having a conversation with the empty picture frame.

What’s up withe strip? No new ones in 2 weeks.

In all reality , how was Rick Soto’s New Year’s Eve Show at the Milford Odd Fellows Lodge ?

P4: Gil- oh is that what the kids are calling it these days? I remember when Mimi and I used to text all night. We didn’t stop after a week though.

1/3-P3: Is Gil’s office now on the upper floors of a skyscraper? Check out all the windows on the building across the street from his huge picture window. I ain’t cleaning all those!

1/3/2019. P3- Mop, GilPa’s winders are facing out beyond right field of venerable Milford Memorial Park where Maris Industries sits. The only thing missing C.J., is Gil telling Kaz to get his shinebox. Stay Snarky my friends.

Is Gil Thorp over? no update since before Christmas

01/03/19 P1: Not a ringing endorsement of the “State Champion Gil Thorp” mugs when the graphic has been washed off after four years of use.

I sent GoComics a message about the lack of Gil Thorp updates, but here we are. Clearly my word has as much of an impact at GoComics Headquarters as it does at my house.

I predict that this site will hit 1000 comments before it gets fixed

Much like new panels for the Gil Thorpe strip on Go Comics…my comments have now ended.

Maybe we should boycott all of the GoComics advertisers! That always sometimes works. (Whoever they are, I don’t see the ads on my pc with Adblock.)

Okay, new Mopped Up Thorp entries have been added, up through December 31st.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

1/4/19 Kaz talked to Filion about his grades and the billboard guy asks if the guy is sure about the next billboard – prepare for the Saturday Blockbuster!

Update it already

P1, Kaz asks Kettlehead about slipping in the classroom. Well, he certainly isn’t slipping on that floor! Mop Man must be too tied up putting out new MUT’s to wax the court.

P2, Explains why Kettlehead has been doing his Best Master Bader imitation lately.

P3, Is this Sign Man taking the next order from BStatWhiz?