Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 15, 2023

Why is the printing different on the 2 boxes in P1? Surely Sign Man wasn’t involved in the printing.

Is this guy just friggin’ everywhere? He’s like dog crap on your shoe that you just can’t get rid of.

That guy needs a muzzle and a leash.

Ahhhh. The greatest coach on God”a green earth endears himself in our hearts for another day.

P1 Is that Rod and ToBe talking to themselves, feigning ignorance about how they sell so many chocolate bars, which are just throw-ins to cover their successful vape cartridge sales operation, or just two guys from the Milford basketball team who look like them and are struggling to sell their allotment?

P2 High and low, Sign Man’s finest hour in 2023 so far.

P3 Somebody who’s been sleeping on the sofa didn’t get any Valentine’s Day loving from the missus is very grumpy today. Could that sour disposition be due to Doctor Frannie not coming home last night due to an “emergency operation” on a certain local pool cleaning professional?

No coach or teacher has EVER threatened a rival school for “being on our turf.” Teachers and coaches are professionals, not gangbangers. C’mon, Henry.

P1: And have you noticed how much weight they’ve gained lately?

Is that the coach?

18 days now without Milford basketball, and it’s likely to be several more, once this idiotic brawl plotline plays out. (Maybe it’ll wind up cancelling the rest of the hoops season after only three games…which would actually NOT be a record, as only three games were shown in 1962-63, and also featured a brawl!)

Two Jets cross 125th Street into Shark territory. Riff better bring the rest of the posse quick.

Martinez has a point, seeing as how they’re on Valley Tech’s parking lot.

Cue Kaz riding into the scene wearing his finest leather jacket riding his bike. Dropping the kick stand, Coach Sideburns struts to the jukebox, gives it a love tap and presto! Shake, Rattle & Roll plays. Aaaayyyeeee!

Henry’s been setting this up for months- now the two unlucky Mudlarks will have to fight their way back to Milford like “The Warriors” once did.

So, all along, Luke’s plan has been to get a job coaching at Valley Modified? Relax Luke, try this Vape and chill out.

A little ’roid rage from BHHL? Save it for the Lift-off big fella.

If these kids were savvy enough, they would goad this clown into physically attacking one of them, leading to bad press, lawsuit, arrest for assault of a minor, dismissal from his job, etc. etc….a win-win for Gil all around.

Bringing this strip up to date, Turf? Try: “What are you doing on our artificial field, artificial storyline, artificial fundraiser, this week’s artificial topic?”

P 4 (Gil, like John Wayne in The Cowboys): “…ALL RIGHT!….WE’VE SEEN WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A BOY…NOW LET’S SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A MAN…”

Well, the good news is, looking at the potential combatants and the coach, no one can claim it’s racist

Holy crap! A gang fight over candy bar turf! Next thing you know, they’ll be finger snapping and dancing like the Sharks and the Jets.

Whats he gonna do put them in a bear hug llike that guy in paris

I was not aware Valley Tech was having financial problems.

This coach is a dooshe. I don’t buy from neighboring schools at my local store.

So a tech school would be a regional high school. How could anything other than its own campus be considered their turf?

WE’RE GONNA GET ‘EM TONIGHTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

This is reminiscent of the Girl Scout cookie episode on Everybody Loves Raymond.

P 3: haha…he looks like the police department supervisor in the Dirty Hairy movie when he tells Clint Eastwood that he’s being ‘transferred to personnel’ and Clint sez ‘but that’s for idiots’ and the supervisor sez ‘..I was in personnel for 10 years…’

I wonder how many weeks we are going to have endure this until the liftathon? Vito. what is the over/under???

P1- So they didn’t see the VT bro mob until they were ten feet away?

P2- Darius and Leo switch sides to confuse Luke.

P3- Looks like it didn’t work.

I remember my Dad spitting on the sidewalk and telling the tough guy to pick that up.

At least Luke is getting more likeable as we go along. But what exactly are both school’s selling? See the surprising answers in today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

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