Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 17, 2022

Cut the attitude Mimi. Get out of the strip. Move in with your Mom and take Mel, Toby & Keri with you. $50.00 @ The Bucket? Will they have change?

P3: Traditionally, it was good manners for the man to sit on the outside in a booth, to “protect” the woman. But this is woke 2022. Love triangle imminent as both Toby and Hernandez Jr. vie for Keri, as The Bachelorette films in Milford.

Okay, I’ve given this overhaul two months. The pacing, action, and dialog feel so disjointed that I can’t keep up with what’s going on. Sorry, guys, I’m gone.

“It’s a long story”, one that the new author apparently has no idea how to tell. Geez.

P1- Whigham is happy finally able to draw Mel’s man hand.

P2- Long story? Nothing that cannot be explained in 3 panels.

P3- Mimi in judgement pose. Mel has a few Sybil personalities to deal with. Take care of my Toby, you have no right telling what to do, this is my $50 spot, shut up old man.

Nice job of advancing the plot. Not! At least we got a full panel hand job.

I agree with Arianna, WHAT IS GOING ON?

I’m totally confused with this strip

Someone get Melissa some mood stabilizers, pronto.

Vito from Goshen is vacationing in Palermo until football starts. He can’t make odds on these oddballs.

It’s a long story, but we won’t actually get into it in the last panel.

Third runner-up, today: The Snipers sing in unison in P-4: Billy Joel – and we’ll all slog through, together! (Till Football) Yes, we’ll all slog through, together.

In all reality , Another forfeit loss for Milford this week dropping their record to 0 / 3 .Dr Pearl is getting concerned .

Like everyone else, I’m completely confused. Did I read it correctly that Gil is apologizing for talking Mel into an abortion? In Mel’s original storyline in 2003, Gil most certainly did not. He convinced her to have the baby and took her in until she did.

“…it’s a long story. Mel is pushing counterfeit fifties. Some golf hustler she met said this town is full of chumps, but he told her not to mess with the waitress at the diner. She’s connected.”

There was no confusion or forfeiting at Milford, OH as the Eagles aspirations for an undefeated season an winning the Valley (aka Eastern Cincinnati Conference) went up in flames with a 41-7 loss to state-ranked visiting Winton Woods. Sifting through the ashes of defeat, the Eagles find them self fifth in the Valley with work to be done to capture second in the Valley. At the midpoint of the regular season, looking at the bigger picture, the Eagles currently occupy the sixth seed and a coveted potential home game in the stacked Division 1, Region 4 for the playoffs.

Who is Arianna? Is that one of Keri’s friends who identifies as female?

P 3 (Mimi’s whispering to Gil): “… I knew that we should have just kept YOUR baby… we could have sent it away with the others…”

“What is going on?” indeed.

From Mimi’s folded arms, looks like Gil is in hot water again.

Kids in P 3: haha…that coach is such a dork

Coaches Held Hostage: Coach Kaz, Day 85 of 95. 85 is the number of scholarships that a D1 football team may give at any one time. It’s also the number that is right before 86 — missed it by that much.

Geez, Gil, what are you trying to pull? Look at the numbers on that bill, it’s obviously a counterfeit! And speaking of counterfeit, don’t accept a counterfeit Mopped Up Thorp. Only accept the real thing at the link below. (Although why anybody would be counterfeiting MUT is a ridiculous assumption.)

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

What IS going on?