Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 20, 2024

I’m sorry but the new artist just isn’t good

At some point I’ll tell the artist of a wondrous thing called background, but I’ll wait until the lessons on human anatomy are over.

(I hated hands in art classes. Hands are amazingly difficult to do well.)

audible sigh inserted here

On the positive side, it is an attempt at sports stories, which makes a refreshing change from constantly having Gil’s daughter be poster girl for Teen Issue Of The Month.

Off tackle is a 24 ISO, Lead, Power, ext.. 26 off the tight end. Baby steps of progress.

Just don’t hand off to the guy with no thumbs.

Tomorrow we will see…A) A touchdown…B) A fumble…C) the end of the game with no mention of the final score…D) Gil in his chair watching Golden Girls

Everyone runs to the sideline and takes off their helmets to hear the play? Or does the coach run out onto the field, and they still take off thier helmets?