Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 29, 2021

P3: Hair looking more haystacky than usual. Wonder what he’s thinking about, with that look on his face? Can I keep both her and Ms. Wapfler?

P2: I’ve got the better eyelashes….No, I do!

Again, not a soul in sight. Burrito needs to win to get this place hoppin!

Pretty sad, giving herself a high five for the Romeo and Juliet joke.

A plague on both your story arcs. “It’s Tee Time, hit it.”

P2 Go to Section 7 for a little action!! That is where they have all of R & W’s past editions of GilPa…nobody goes there anymore!!!!

P3 Who comes up with this sappy dialog???

P1 mmmmmmmm let me lick that coffee I just spilled off your neck and face

P2 Wait – “you mean it’s been two plus weeks and the freakin’ pie eating library board hasn’t made a decision yet? Your old man must be about ready to have a stroke thinking about all the wasted money those idle computers are costing – hee hee!

P3 please, I pray, please get me out of this miserable strip and a better haircut

Swordfights? Don’t be a putz

Swordfights, banishment, murder, and suicide. It’s romantic.

Will this high school baseball season end before college football starts? “Sorry coach. You want me to pitch Saturday but the coach at Milford College wants me to QB the football team against Georgia Tech.”

Hey if I don’t find work tomorrow

It’s gonna be (gonna be) heartaches ‘n’ sorrow

Our love’s gonna be destroyed like a tragedy

Just like Romeo and Juliet

Ah, Romeo and Juliet. Can we just jump to the ending?

whaaat?? Has the story line jumped back to before the library board duel??

I think I’m gonna puke.

P1, Insane Zane will be off to college before the library board decision is made which will end up making Mopman right as he’ll have to decline the offer and give the job to (Dis)Able(d).

P2, You already got caught “sneaking around” the library. I don’t remember the kids calling it that back in the ’60s.

P3, Yep, just like in the showers, Zane.

P2- Those eyelashes. Maybe it’s Maybelline.

And now we see the shortcomings of a Milford education. Don’t they realize they both die at the end of the play?

I know none of us is surprised, but Zane’s hair changed color since yesterday’s strip. It went from CK’s brown to Mimi’s yellow.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Swordfights? More like accidental suicide pacts, kid! Surprisingly, it seems like someone maybe hasn’t been spending enough time at the library.

Aren’t you in enough sword fights during loofah time??

Just like Romeo and Juliet? Say, why does this coffee taste funny?

Meanwhile , 2 tour buses and an equipment truck pull up at the Milford Fairgrounds . In all reality , it’s the Ricky Soto Review that’s highlighting the Main Stage with its Salute to America show at the Milford Odd Fellows Annual Fourth of July celebration.

Tomorrow, Abel B. is taking a hard look at the cost and quality of video from the library’s current security camera system and discovers some videos from the day before that are quite surprising to him. Later that night, when queried by Abel, Katy sez “…gosh no, daddy, I haven’t seen Zane since the debate…why do you ask?…”

Oh ba-rother! So Burrito banned her from seeing Zane just because of the Library Board position? And if they pick Zane, then he’ll just be fine with her dating him again? He didn’t like him before this lunacy started, so I don’t see how anything is different now or will be in the future.

And speaking of in the future, Mopped Up Thorp hilarity is in your future – https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

P3.5: Yes, Kate (you shrew) it is like R&J, because the writers would really have a hard time coming up with something romantic that was like Coriolanus.