Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 09, 2013

Yes, Boo, it’s a sign you’ve gone off your rocker.

Then he moved to South Carolina and came back as a gamecock.

And she came back as Lionel Ritchie?

Suddenly Gil and Mimi look the same age as Kaz and his girlfriend. Maybe this strip has done a time warp and we have been seeing the years before Gil and Mimi had children and a dog. This idea worked for the strip For Better or For Worse.

And how would he know for sure? The peacock pecks him in the shin where JayBird used to kick him?

Why do the Milford H.S. girls have hair growth on their upper lips? Prenatel hormone shots? Maybe we will see more of Kaz’s gal Kelly.

If he was reincarnated as a peacock that doesn’t say much about his behavior in the previous life, does it?

Based on Mimi’s smile, Gil is evidently demonstrating the size of his peacock.

P1 – If this is anything like football season, the coaches that actually were at the game are recapping the game for Gil.

Gil is reintroducing himself to the Milford coaching staff after his extended leave of absence in his fruitless search for a coaching job somewhere else.

Instead of the Emerald Aisle watch for the Peafowl Flock at games from now on.

Y’all are fun—eee today. Good stuff on conversation at the coffee shop…yeah, I’m pretty sure they keep some bottles of liquor in the back for when Gil shows up.

On the shelf, lazily labelled containers of cocaine are visible in panel 1. Toot toot.

I’m starting to have mixed feelings about this. Thor P should let Boo think the bird is anything he wants to, as long as MILFord keeps winning. Many athletes are superstitious, and maybe this helps. As I recall, Moises Alou used to pee on his hands before games. This, in comparison, is no big deal. Buy him a cage. It may not be good for his love life, but he finally got game!

When I come back, I certainly want to come back as some kind of cock.