Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 23, 2024

Beth has kids who like Cervantes as a bedtime story? Once again I’m confused.

Either Gil’s about to propose to that Beth as the new Mrs. Thorp, or propose that he takes her ana1 cherry…

P 2.5 (Gil): “… Jami doesn’t understand words…”

Athena

All I ever want to do is please her

My life has been so settled

And she’s the reason

Just one word from her

And my troubles are long gone

But I think I’ll get along

She’s just a girl

She’s a bomb

She’s a bomb

Just a girl, just a girl

Just a girl, just a girl

Just a girl, just a girl

She’s just a girl.

“You love me? Already?” “Well, since the readers feel like every strip sucks years off their own lives, I figured we should probably try to move this thing along…”

Isn’t Jami a little old to be read bedtime stories?

Join us tomorrow when a surprised Beth tells Gil that this is a fun thing. What am I thinking? It won’t happen until sometime in October.

P4 “Do you think it’s too late to get a couple of them there post-term abortions done. Beth?”

126 chapters! Say Emilmimimi has the kids 2 nights a week, that’s 6 months worth of reading. Beth’s Scheherazade strategy has paid off.

It looks like the summer of Jami just got put to sleep.

P-1: Everyone is left wondering why the window pane misses the kids.

P-2: After spending an entire night out with her, Gil finally wants to add to the conversation, if she ever stops long enough to get a word in edgewise.

P-3: I’ll see your bedtime stories, and raise you a chance to move up from “just my mistress”.

P1: The Thorp family broccoli tree is growing like gangbusters.

Yas, bay bay! Looks like Gilly’s gonna put the hot dog in the bun!

I’m sure they would have preferred listening to “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.”

Beth is fantasizing about someone else while Gilpa exposes his “feelings”; must be why the Memester left him.

Wasn’t the dinner party at the Thorp residence?

P1- Is Meemaw babysitting?

P2- “…..but you’ll have to wait a few minutes until we’re in bed.”

P3- She took off her earrings but not her bracelets?

Beth must have been wondering what was going on when there was 3 minutes of silence between P2 and P3. And nice of her to take off those big earrings, but leaving on those clanky bracelets to sleep? Unless there’s another use for them. And speaking of another use, another use for your browser is to go read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/but-is-he-a-man-of-steel-so-to-speak/

I think those two dialogue balloons in the last panel are shown in the wrong order…

P4: Beth – I know.

Gil Thought Bubble – Oh, $h!t

Oh no! Are the kids going to disappear from the strip AGAIN???

Listen I do miss the football season…Listen I do miss Jack Berrill…Listen to the fans of the strip.