Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 10, 2023

So Kim just took over the team?!? In what world does that happen? Wait, I think I know…

P3: is he trying to mock Kim by squinting his eyes?

P1: The out of control fog machine keeps the crowd from seeing the game.

P2: Did anyone tell her you don’t need to hold the headset to her ear to hear it? Millennials can only work earbuds. Looks like those great Koss headphones from back in the day.

Will obsession now be with Coach Kim? And don’t psychiatrists call this “transference”?

And, of course, on the gym floor during the middle of a game is the perfect place for a loud argument that would have been better fought before or after the game in the coach’s office.

In all reality , Thank you Coach Kim for your very astute observation of what’s bothering me. No problem Coach Martinez , now let’s win this game !

Wow! Bradley is beating VT all by himself???

“It’s practice, man!”

— Luke Iverson

P3: Coach Martinez does his best Alan Iverson Impression. “We talkin about practice, not the game……practice.”

Hey, it’s a basketball game…that’s not featuring Milford. Swell. (And shouldn’t the Valley teams be playing conference games by now? Where are Goshen, New Thayer, et al?) With all of the other problems ‘Gil Thorp’ has these days, the biggest one is bandwith. The author doesn’t seem to realize that the strip only has three panels a day: only 18 panels in a whole week to tell the multiple stories he seems to want to tell. That’s why storylines are so choppy and often ignored and abandoned altogether. And there’s barely any room for sports! This is supposed to be a high school sports strip, dang it…!

Do Marty’s interns get to call the Valley Tech games?

2 out of 10. Yeah, that sounds about right.

And isn’t it time they changed the name of this strip to Big Hand Luke?

P3- Show me ANY coach who utters those words and I’ll show you an underachiever, a slacker. The best coaches are teachers and practice is their classroom and laboratory. Props to Coach Kim telling it like it is.

P 4(Kim): “….and you need to pay more attention to your wife too….word on the street is that she really isn’t working late shifts at the hospital…”

P 3.5 (Kim): “…what are standing here talking to me for?….don’t you have a mirror that you should be kissing?…”

His obsession with Gil is hardly noticeable.

Practice! We’re talking ’bout practice!

Coach KIm reading Coach Hairy’s fortune cookie from lunch.

P-1: Bradley picks up the First Down.

P-2: In a cost-cutting and legal settlement, VT agrees to have the Faculty member marry the Sophomore and the school hires her as a Sports announcer.

P-3: Yes, Coach Luke it’s practice. You told me to concentrate on passing drills. You haven’t had a single minute dedicated to ball security. Hey, look at me! Not the school cameraman!

When you state the score you should always state the team ahead first…

P1: Stealing the ball doesn’t help you all that much if you immediately proceed to run with it.

So not having the coach around for one practice makes them stink?

Is that laytoya moon doing the valley tech broadcast ?PLus how does luis coach three different teams all at the same time ?

“You have shamed our Valley Tech family! Begone!”

Coach Kim is also obsessed with his looks. Before the game he was wearing his blue suit.

About time somebody called out Big Hairy Lukey’s bullsh*it. Go on with your badazz self Coach Kim!

In the Snow Flake world Ball Security is just as evil as any other kind of Security. Defund the Defense.

P1 “Emile, help me!”

P2 Chuck Taylor makes a special guest appearance as Valley Tech’s radio play-by-play announcer.

P3 “One practice, Kim, one practice…do you see this digit? Now shut your assistant-azz coach mouth before I stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.”

Man, not only is that kid traveling, he’s carrying the ball like he’s running for the first down. And speaking of first, the first thing you should be doing is reading Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/