I normally do not criticize the artists and writers of comic strips I have read for decades. I’m about to quit reading this strip after sixty years. The current Gil Thorp strip has not even a passive resemblance to the classic strips. The sports scenarios are half-baked and likely wouldn’t ever happen in real life. The non-sports story arcs are laughable and unreadable.
The modern art style (also in the the Flash Gordon and Mark Trail strips) is not easy on the eyes. The only other comic strip I stopped reading was Mary Worth. Good luck, Henry and Rod.
This is heartbreaking for about the 100th time. Frank Cho stopped the strip in late December 2001. We have been in reruns for almost a quarter of a century. I still read the strip daily and my LM books, as the strip is great.
I am the same age as the guys in Motley Crue but only bought one of their albums (Shout at the Devil – expanded with demos). No reason to hide that CD behind a toilet, even an old ball and chain toilet!
From Wikipedia – “Torpedo”, 1920s slang for a hit man or “hired gun”