Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 28, 2022

He not only chased him down in 12 seconds, he changed out of the Milford uniform he was wearing through the whole conversation.

Get a Veg-O-Matic, Gil, and you won’t chop your fingers off along with the carrots.

Gil called the blind man’s bluff

Gregg will wear a mask. Now we need to remove the mask of anonymity from his father so the arc can end.

Now I wonder if GilPa’s going to bother to inform opposing teams that a blind guy is throwing baseballs at them. Where are THEIR masks?

About 12 seconds, once he started running towards us. 10 minutes total

P1.5 “No, YOU pull MY finger, Gregggg, I am THE Gil Thorp and you’re not. I got a million…errrrr….thousands…errrrr…maybe one or two other sh*tbirds like you who would gladly take your place, if it’s not the mask then it’s funny nose and glasses, what’s it gonna be, boy?“

P2: “Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?”

P4 “But he veered off to the left of us and wandered around for about 20 minutes until our amusement turned to boredom, so then we called him over.”

12 seconds in the 100 meters…first reference to track & field at MHS ever.

In all reality , it took Greg 12 seconds to chase me down but he was driving his Dad’s car .

P 1: “… you readers think this story is stupid?…wait til you see the next one we’re gonna do…”

P1- Gil hasn’t had electrolysis lately. Look at the hair on his knuckles.

P2- Thanks for stopping by Dr. Maisano. Can I get you a roadie and a water chaser?

P3- So Mimi. How was softball season? What? You’re going to Central City to pick up pool supplies and taking the pool boy? We sure are lucky to get good help. Pedro comes back every pool season.

I can’t wait to see how the artist draws this mask. Probably like he draws chain link fences. Full of holes.

The first time Greg wears the mask the opposing teams first 6 batters’ bunt.

Greg’s father wears a mask to show solidarity. And anonymity.

Midway through the story arc, someone decided that Scooter actually wasn’t all that much fun to have around any more. I wonder what his big plan for protecting Greggg from line drives was that he never revealed to us. Maybe he told the softball team about it, during their clandestine games that no one gets to see because Greggg’s dad is the umpire.

P 4: “… in fact, I’m making every player wear them so Gregg doesn’t feel different…”

Point (pun) #1: Gil shows he needs glasses as he points left instead of straight ahead.

#2: So, instead of apologizing for trying to fool the coach, he’ll get away scotch free if he wears a mask.

#3: Scooter also gets away with it, even though he master minded most of the um, er, um, plot.

#4: Next week we find out, Dad’s been hiding because he came up with this story-line.

P 3 – Mimi and the 12 seconds reference is low hanging fruit for MUT

Gil Thorp was interesting while the original cartoonist was doing the strip, the new team of writers OTOH isn’t

P1 – “All you out there, loading up the comments section. You’re making it look like people are super interested in this story. You’re just encouraging this crap to continue!”

P2 – Did Gregggg rip off his Milford jersey and throw it after Gillll’s ultimatum? Leaving him standing there in his copper colored undershirt?

P3 – Looks like Gillll has chopped up several carrots and three of his fingers.

And speaking of chopping, before you go out chopping wood you should read today’s installment of Mopped Up Thorp. (What? Chopping wood?)

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/