Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 11, 2023

Ahh, give it a rest ya furry little rodent!

Gil: Nothing is over until I say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

I dunno about where all the kids are here, but I get the feeling this is headed for a “Romeo & Juliet” scenario.

Maybe with Gil yelling at his younger son “BUT HER FATHER’S THE VALLEY HIGH HEAD COACH!!”

I give up. What is “this” ?

P1 Big hands. Plural!

P2 Gil stares with an icy glare as he towers over BHHL watching him embrace failure.

P3 Says BHHL as he gives Gil’s ear a ticklish wet willie’s as he experiences a bout of EHTS (Exploding Hairy Tongue Syndrome).

Gil thought bubble: “You’re cute when you’re mad, you hairy little ape man.”

Hopefully you’re seeing a therapist who can help you with that obsessive unrequited dark need for revenge that is alienating your family and students. We’re all praying for you… And the return of coherent story telling. (I seem to recall the promise this confusion would last a year. Wondering what comes next if that holds true.)

Great. Can we move on to baseball now? (It’s the game with the bat and ball, Henry. No, that’s cricket. Sigh.)

P2: Classic boxing stare down shot.

Big hands, ears and teeth. Oh my! Okay, let’s take the rest of the week to wrap this mess up, visit Rod in the hospital, tease a little bit of Keri/Pedro making out then on to next week when we learn that To Be somehow has developed a 95-mph heater and Gil “discovers” his latest transfer student with power to all fields.

Meanwhile, later at the Martinez house, Frannie just pulled a 12 hour shift with 3 heart transplants and Luke mutters over a Swanson dinner, we shoulda trapped and rotated. The back door was open all night. We coulda….WAP! Thank you Frannie. He’ll have another.

P 4 (Gil): “… oh yeah it is, punk… look at the scoreboard…”

Actually, when the clock reads 0:00, it is over.

Rick Soto and The Fat Lady did a post-game concert in the gym. She sang.

I was hoping this was over.

As he nibbles on Gil’s ear.

“We’ll meet again!”

“Of course we will. We have a game scheduled for next month.”

P4-Danny Noonan: Great grammer.

Rod must have been orgasmic when he finished P1. His hugest hands ever!

So, when Henry said “I agree” yesterday in the comments that was a misdirection?

It ain’t over til it’s over! – Yogi Berra

If you rotate this strip counter-clockwise 90 degrees, the background looks like a traffic light. Coincidence? Yeah, probably. And speaking of probably, you probably want to go read today’s Mopped Up Thorp right about now.

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Just to prove Henry likes irony, Franny serves Luke the papers.