Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 22, 2013

Scott’s on very thin ice here. I’ve seen a wild turkey, a fox, a deer and a coyote in my neighborhood at various times. Never saw any of them again. His chance of being able to produce the peacock is very remote. It’s not like there’s some pill he can take that will guarantee the peacock shows up.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, hundreds of peacocks attack!!!

I guess the spirit of little Jay-Bird got tired of trying to communicate with his sad brother, who seems to have forgotten about him since he got a girl and spends all his time practicing basketball with her instead of trying to find out what his little brother is doing back from the dead.

@chiphilton – actually, there IS a pill he could take to make the peacock show up . . . and a bunch of other stuff as well. But I digress.

The peacock is in cahoots with Tolec of the Andromeda Council, which kidnapped Jay-Bird in order to turn him into a genetically modified super-soldier in the ongoing war against the Reptilian Forces which have been hiding in the Indian Ocean. In fact, the peacock was SUPPOSED to seek out and destroy the evil One Armed Coach failed in that mission due to a heart condition resulting from ingesting tattoo ink.

The government is currently trying to locate the peacock in order to dissect it and find out its secret. The girlfriend is a government planted femme fatale’ on a mission to capture the peacock. Meanwhile, Jay-Bird is has taken over the body of Gil Thorpe, which is why Mimi has been . . . “particularly satisfied” . . . in recent years due to Gil’s sudden and remarkable frenzied energy.

This, however, is only a subterfuge since Jay-Bird is ostensibly on a mission for the planet Cricket which is hell bent on earth’s destruction since the publication of their military and state secrets in the Official Rules of Cricket book. The attacking forced don’t realize it yet, but they will soon find that their efforts to eradicate the Truly Stupid from the cosmos is doomed to failure when Peacock Boy starts playing his magic flute, which actually casts a summoning spell. The spell summons demons (regularly mistaken for the characters in “Where the Wild Things Are” who will ultimately turn on their summoners and will seek revenge until it is discovered that, as a goose, she must fly south for the winder, thus rendering further efforts moot.

Who are those people in jail in P1?

This storyline is the most riveting I’ve read since thZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

Anyone else see a problem with the idea that someone would be inspired to play better basketball by meeting a boyfriend’s dead brother that she never met when he was alive? Me neither.

Let’s play some basketball!

If the girl keeps asking to see your peacock, realize she isn’t talking about the bird. Good grief, this guy is thick.

They misspelled PI on that sign in P3.

The undertones the last few days are amazing.

…if Fowler doesn’t show her a Peacock pronto, she’d gonna start looking at Stephan Humphries for guidance!

P3, Luhm at work on the rear view mirror, he’s everywhere!

It was nice of the kids to visit the lonely folks at the penitentiary in P1.

I believe that sign in P3 is the international road sign for a “Peacock Crossing.” Either that or the sign to the Indianapolis Colts training facility.

The sign in P3 looks like it’s in Hebrew. I think I’ve seen those characters on a dreidel.

Good to see she had time for a hairstyling between P1 and P3. The sign in P3 appears to be octagonal, I’m guessing “Bikini Stop”? Let’s hope she doesn’t get too distracted while driving and run down the peacock … HRAAK!

P4 – peacock poo on the windshield!

Gil Thorpe was named after Gil Hodges and Jim Thorpe (from a real-world interview with the creators of the strip).