Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for October 08, 2024

Jefferson leads 7 – 14? How about 14 – 7? And Luke is getting portlier as the game goes on.

Inspired speech. To recap: Wall-Jefferson knows Luke can’t coach, so Cami just advised the Milford players to go out there and make it up themselves.

Another thrilling installment…

Win it for the Giller.

Milford’s trying to trick Jefferson-Wall by playing in blank jerseys.

This new artist is just putrid !!!!! No school name or number on jersey ???

I was joking yesterday about Minecraft but P3 is getting pretty close.

Sports knowledge is terrible. Now we have an artist to match.

I think someone already posted this, but “win one for the Gilper”. More generally, doesn’t every day there’s a crappy strip let Gil down?

Cami opens her book of Mother Goose’s Football Plays.

If Milford loses, the readers will be crushed.

The Milford football team is coed? who is the girl in panel 1?

This is MUCH better than a nursery rhyme. CLEAR!

Every day I walk in shadows

I know not what it is

Heading for

And as the evening lies dying

A gentle heart dies near me sighing

It’s still the same

You’ll never change

You can never understand

We can now be like water

Don’t need more to find our way

Just get on where we came

It’s a game

What a game

No time to lose, no time to lose

No time to lose, no time to lose

Go with the flow

Never let go

No time to lose.

P2: The hand action Luke uses will get the point across. It will be 14-14 in no time.

In all reality it appears that the majority of the Milford players have Rickets !l

P3: Is that a football field or a Twilight Zone futuristic landscape?

I knew the school district was hurting for money, but they can’t afford jersey numbers? Time for another fund raiser!

P4 “We won’t let coach Thorp down, coach Toe. We learned to embrace failure from the best!”

P2: Luke is addressing team and Cami Toe is gesturing with a pained look on her face. WTF is going on? Wrong answers only.

All that’s missing today is badly lipped synched Japanese dialogue dubbed in English and we would have a bad B-grade movie.

cami has her mustache back thats part of her charm

gil could care less hes probably at milford casino counting cards at blackjack

panal one rod looks like he wants to be in a fat albert cartoon

P1.5: Of course you’re struggling. Look at the clowns around you.

P-2.5: Let’s fool ‘em. Let’s play football instead of Alphabet.

P-3.5: and don’t get those pretty white uniforms dirty! We’re out of Tide.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

While Gil is laid up in bed, the Mudlarks fight on, led by Assistant Coaches Martinez and Ochoa in his absence. Anyway, turns out Assistant Coaches Martinez and Ochoa [stink]! “I’m struggling out there, coach.” “Right, that’s because they know Coach Thorp isn’t here! They’re exploiting our weaknesses, especially our coaching weaknesses! Now get out there and win, or you’re personally failing Gil!”

P1- “Yes, you’re terrible. That’s why you’re benched for the second half.”

P2- Cami points to the word balloon in case the guys in the back can’t hear.

P3- “….Now let’s go out and fix that goal post.”

Just dreadful…

P 3 (random player): “… screw you Toe…we’re outta here…”

P 2 (random player): “… no!…they know we’re not on our A game because you two clowns couldn’t coach an orgy in a who-re house…”

Jefferson and Milford and the end zone had ‘WALL’? Huh?

The artwork here keeps getting worse and worse. Hard to believe anyone in charge allows such poor renderings.

Where’s everyone going? Out into the cornfield? Are these ghosts of Milford players past? Tell them to say hi to Shoeless Joe Jackson for me. And speaking of tell, tell everyone you know that today’s Mopped Up Thorp is online.

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