Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 17, 2018

These guys are awfully hard up for entertainment. A guy in my class ate live goldfish and didn’t cause this much excitement.

Filion is probably depressed because the local Milford station took That 70s Show off the air.

Three pound banana splits? That might be worth televising on ESPN9.

I’m in love but I must have picked a bad time to be in love

Four people have already commented and NONE has mentioned anything along the lines of, “What’s his left hand doing” in panel 3? I will be first. Um, bad choice by the artist?

P1, Saturday he was going to eat them, now he’s going to pound them. What did those banana splits do to you, Soto?

P2, Random Milford girl with the beginnings of a handlebar mustache, never to be seen again.

P3, Mike Filion appears to be up for a little something else though. Perhaps the girl with the handlebar mustache?

In all reality , what internal issues are causing Mike’s depression and withdrawal from his friends ? Will a pep talk from Coach Thorp snap him out of his depression ? Inquiring minds want to know !

Poor Mike Filion. The joy of watching some slob wolf down an obscene amount of ice cream seems to have eluded him.

I think Mikey’s finding out it really wasn’t so neat-o to shoot that bird with his slingshot

Mike Filion, feeling insightful, comes to the stark reality that mediocre is no longer the benchmark for 2nd place in The Valley Conference.

Is he holding his head because it hurts? Will this be a major medical drama about brain injury?

Nah, unless he gets crushed by a falling billboard.

People who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder lead SAD lives during the winter.

Filion is hoping he’s still on Santa’s Good Boy list

P 3 is definitely a softball lobbed over the plate for MUT

Good thing he got rid of the ants on his face by panel 3>

…has “the needle” or oxy ever entered R & W’s Milford?

P2 “Just said he wasn’t up for it”P3 Problem solved !

We are going to deal with very serious issue of teen depression (and how Mike is going to handle it). Also, there will be the sub theme of will that crazy billboard campaign run the coach out of town. But just maybe a more surefire way to deal with both is a championship run?

Oh and we told that girl in p. 2 not to took at the camera!

P2: Good to see Paula Prentiss survived Fort Lauderdale.

Banana pounding in P1 and P3 today. It’s like they’re trying to replace the juvenile MUT humor.

Random girl looking in camera at The Bucket. They’ve used that before, but not the same girl at least. She must have won some lottery to appear in a Gil Thorp episode.