Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 22, 2023

I’ll give Marty points for stepping up his villian game and finally reaching Coach Luke’s level of cartoonish supervilliany: following high school students (Who I somehow relate to as the only mad magazine readers at their high school, and i’m sad to hear al passed) is a genuine step up from being kinda on the margins in what i’ve seen of this era. I’ll deduct most of those points for stalking teenage boys in a way that undoes his entire scheme. Seriously even if he wints he’ll be less the “heroic man who stopped vaping” and more “the creepy dude who stopped vaping because he happened to stalk the teens responsible to get a scoop to ruin their coach.”

I’m curiously disappointed it isn’t a fold-in.

Any story with Marty Moon is a good story!

Baseball team just lost a couple players.

All that vaping has improved their taste in reading material at least

Does Marty Moon work this hard, or care? Or is this Big Hairy Lukey relentlessly looking for any way to embarrass and shame Gil while finding another competitive advantage by documenting Milford players violating the law and presenting evidence to Gil and the school board so they will be suspended? Who’s the nightmare now?

Milford bird cage liner story: Moon driving home from the bar after 4 hours of heavy drinking takes pics of underage boys

Welcome back Marty, you schmuck. You’re our favorite carbuncle.

Not to mention the late Mort Drucker (the best caricature artist in the business) and… well, heck – Mad magazine in general.

Maybe I am having flashbacks but didn’t Mad stop publishing a couple of years ago?

“There is no last case, fellas,” Marty barks. “You keep selling as long as I say,” he says, holding up the phone. “You work for me now!”

Somebody still needs to ’splain to me how these morons make enough money from buying, and then selling, vape cartridges and at the same time, turn a profit with their candy fundraising. Only in Milford.

Is that Marty Moon? Doing actual journalistic investigation?

What in the wide world of sports is going on lately? Gil working? Marty working? Our world is turning upside down. And speaking of down, if you’re feeling down, the best way to raise your spirits is by reading Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/marty-the-mole/

Kids READING?!? Something on paper?!?

Thumbs up for Al Jafee shout out