Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 27, 2022

Who f****n cares Eli?

Ummmm….where’s Gregggg? Wasn’t the point taking a picture of the Hammmm family? Did he wonder off?

In all reality , great job on the locker room floor today Mop, Kudos !

Joe West?

P1- Since we love to speculate , Mr, Hamm & Egger is a CIA operative assuming a mundane life in Milford.

P3- First right answer wins a freshly scented loofah.

He’s ducking the picture by being in the picture with someone else?

Curtis, that isn’t Mrs Hamm looking good. You’re pointing the camera off to your right somewhere.

These Milford kids have money to burn.

panel #1 old man says yes he is ducking a cellphone picture as there is no such thing as being too careful. Then in panel 2 he is getting his picture taken, and the son seems to be missing.

So, a question. Do the writers and the artists ever talk to each other? And if the writers are also the artists do you guys ever bother to read what you just wrote before you draw?

Todays strip is really bad. Gil Thorp USED TO BE an interesting daily strip. But over the past 12 months story lines just get dropped with no ending, altho I guess the absence of the Library Board ending put so much pressure on them that they broke off their new story arc for 1 day and gave us a really poor finale. But today not only makes no sense, it totally contradicts itself in 2 panels.

P2: Dougg Hamm’s hair is no longer gray. Today it’s white. How long will it be until someone figures out that he’s a senior citizen, trying to relive his glory days as a high-school baseball pitcher?

Angel Hernandez. Oh wait, you said worked.

P 4: ( many voices as full water bottles are thrown in his direction) “… SHUT THE ****UP, JERK *FF!…”

P3 has got me stumped. If they’re in the locker room why did everyone, shower, get dressed and then drape their towels around their necks? Or, if they’re in the lunchroom why isn’t Little E standing on the table for such an important announcement? Regardless, Mopman did do an impressive job on those floors today.

Gregg’s dad ump’d the most games. He’s in witness protection because of death threats he received after a bad call.

P2: I don’t think that’s Hammm Sr.

My guess is that Ggregg’s hair has turned white again, like it was a couple of days last week, presumably from fright after thinking about what might happen during loofah time in a winning locker room.

The Picture goes viral (whatever that means in Thorp time) and now everybody knows what happened to Mr. Rogers’ Mailman!

Unfortunately, it is not John McSherry.

P1- I’ll just wear my N95 mask for the rest of the year so nobody will recognize me.

P2- Dadd has a new two toned hair style.

P3- Look, I’m 7 feet tall now and I can touch the ceiling.

So now we have plots involving both Gregg’s mysterious eye condition AND Dadd’s reluctance to be photographed, NEITHER of which have been clarified yet, despite us already being one month into a three month story! I REFUSE to allow the story to simply unfold and DEMAND ANSWERS NOW! If I don’t have a full ophthalmologist’s report along with a detailed copy of Dadd’s resume by week’s end, I’ll NEVER READ THIS STRIP AGAIN!

I’ve come late to the party, and don’t have the history of the strip like the regular readers do, so I’m ignorant on some of the comments. There are only 4 strips I read and none of them are here, I found this while looking for 9 Chickweed Lane which was dropped by my usual outlet. Discovered ‘Thorp’ among the listing and remembered it from when I was young and just started clicking it recently. At first I thought the comments about Hamm ducking photos and the plausible reasons for doing was merely speculation on the part of the readers, but apparently there is some validity to those comments. I just don’t know what they really are.

I’d still like to know the rationale for Scooooter wanting a picture of Gregggg with one of his parents. Obviously it’s just a lame excuse to bring up Gregggg’s dadddd’s secret that will take a month to be revealed. And I had forgotten about his stupid trivia addiction. Why does he think anyone would be excited about guessing some umpire trivia? And speaking of trivia, here’s a lesser known bit of trivia. Today’s Mopped Up Thorp is online.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Maybe Scoop Heather will uncover the previously reported story of how a negligent ghost-writing dadd destroyed his sonn’s eyesight, possibly by forcing him to proofread his hackk manuscripts at too young an age!