Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 26, 2022

Stay for dinner? They just got there. I think this smells like a trap and the kids are about to get abducted and will disappear for another decade.

This was posted late Sunday, so most of you missed this very special post on the Mopped Up Thorp site: the debut of Sign Man and Fistpump Man!

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/sign-man-and-fistpump-man-episode-1/

Double-starch dinner is underrated.

Is that a cactus in the lower left hand corner of P2?

Bye

In all reality , Kerri , I never knew you were a switch hitter. That shows what you know Jamie .

I’m just about ready to stop reading this strip. NOBODY gives a rats behind about these kids. We read this strip to see what Gil’s going to do about this season’s twist on the high school sports calendar.

Give it til tomorrow Snarkers. Football starts, HJBs version. Looking forward to the next deviate teenager to show us how young angst runs as rampant as EES in Milford.

Jamie makes the most of his minor supporting role and scores big with his Comment of the Day.

Man, I forgot Luke Jr and Pedro were different people.

So how come Coach A-hole’s family is so nice? Hasn’t he passed along his beer can-crushing hatred of everything Thorp, which opened our new writer’s tenure? And what about the truism, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?” Why aren’t they A-holes, too? I’m waiting….

Not bad, Pedro the pool boy gets both Mimi and Keri….

Bedhead is certainly a popular hair style in Milford.

Coaches Held Hostage: Coach Kaz, Day 94. 94 is the number of feet that a basketball court is long and the atomic number of plutonium, both of which relate to his disappearance. During basketball season, terrorists hatched a plot to kidnap Kaz and gave their mission the code name 94 Feet. Their plan was to hold him for ransom in the form of plutonium, which they need for the bomb they are trying to assemble. Fortunately for Milford, a crack team of ex-SEALs, consisting of Mopman, Bitsy, Gil-Doh, Mr. Reality, bearwku82, and me — Ellis Burkes wanted to join us but we’re sick to death of his puns — are working on a rescue, which will happy very soon. Stay tuned for further developments. (This is no crazier than some of the plots we’ve seen in this strip.)

P 4: “…because even though I’m a pain in your butt, I’m not gay…”

P 2: Sophia Vergara practicing her lines for Modern Family…“..Jay!”…"

P 1.5: “…I’m Keri, and today, I’m a girl…”

Are we playing football???? Or is this a comic version of General Hospital?

Today’s High School Class = Geometry. A Triangle seems to be forming with Tobi-Kerri-Pedro Jr. Let the axioms begin.

Somewhere Gil’s blood pressure just shot up 50 points

This must what it’s like to watch a train wreck.

Whoa, what happened? I think Jami and Pedro traded shirts while they were talking on the porch. We didn’t see Pedro’s shirt in Saturday’s strip, but Jami’s shirt changed and Pedro is wearing what Jami had on previously. And speaking of previously, I’ve previously told you to read Mopped Up Thorp, and I’m telling you once again.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Is Pedro adopted? He’s 17 years old and a foot taller than either one of his parents. More backstory on the Martinez clan to follow at dinner?

But.. but… football! (Sobs.) I was promised football!

What is wrong with you people?

All right Hank. We are more than ready for some old fashioned, hard hitting, mediocre strategy GilPa Fightin’ Mudlark football. And don’t even think of cheating us out of the preseason bonfire that rivals what Texas A & M used to produce.

I’m incredibly lost!! No worries, however, because at this pace I should catch on in about 3 weeks.