Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 12, 2023

Particularly in P2, yon “cleanup woman” has a lean and hungry look.

Ericka clearly wears the pants in this relationship.

The strip has taken a radical shift from last year. Last year it was guys getting loaded at the ceremony. In a totally unexpected attack on sexism this year the women get sloshed.

In tomorrow’s strip, the women will be making out in the coat check room.

Was Erika invited to the COTY event? Is she sitting at the Thorp table? Is Jami going to participate in a sport, any sport? Jami from 15 years ago at least played little league and we were introduced to Brent Raptor.

I got nothing, except- a termite walks into a bar and asks, where is the bar tender?

I’m having a hard time articulating just how much I despise this storyline. The Luke Martinez buffoonery was bad enough, but to tear down Mimi like this ad a bad mother cheating in front of her kids is enough perhaps for this strip to become as dead to me as Mark Trail. We will soon see.

Is that Beth? She changed her hair. I guess it has been a year though. She looks píssed. She waited a whole year for another shot at Gil and finds out that Mimi showed up.

And maybe it’s just me, but it seems a bit concerning when you win a major award and your wife brings a date to the ceremony. And speaking of dates, you should plan on making a date with Mopped Up Thorp. (Well that was a weird segue.)

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/girl-not-gil-talk/

That bartender (Beth?) is waaay too interested in Mimi and Ericka’s backfield in motion.

P4 Beth’s thought bubble: “Well if Gil’s wife is more interested in her gal pal, I am going to show him a good old fashioned time tonight.”

You always walk out when your husband is winning his 38TH coach of the year award.

For a second there I thought this was a flash forward and Keri grew up to be a bartender.

Mimi and her friend seem to have a huge drinking problem if anything

P 3 (Beth thought bubble): “… it’s time that Gil has a woman that appreciates him…”

Panel 2, the look of envy.

P2- Ginger Grant in disguise with the wig and Clark Gable mustache.

Ericka will announce clambake was her grandfather

P-1: We thought it was a Hollywood writers’ strike. That is the worst Mimi I’ve ever seen!

P-2: MOP gets today’s Sherlock for referencing Kiss’ Beth. (Although, Henry almost accidentally stumbled into it for George Jones’ “I’m a Bartender”.)

P-3: It’s hard to tell if Beth is upset because of how poorly she’s drawn, or because those two Bims stiffed her on the TIP.