Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 24, 2013

In the fourth panel the tree, which is the same variety that was seen in the Wizard of Oz, begins to pluck its own fruit and fling it at Scott and Mia.

Oh brother!!

Hey, only sailors are more superstitious than jocks…maybe, so this storyline isn’t completely bonkers.

K-E-DOUBLE-L, O-DOUBLE-G, Kellogg’s best to you!

There must be a peahen around somewhere, for all that tail display to be going on.

P3 is the most elaborate artwork I’ve seen in the strip in quite a while. I wish he could do as well to keep the mustaches off those ’roided Milford girls. Is some hunter going to blast this peacock into smithereens, and then neither team wins again? The angst is killing me.

Why not take the whole team there so they can all shoot better? The Peacock would make a great shooting coach evidently. Pretty strange stuff going on in Miltown.

Jackpot!!! Uncle Ted Nugent where are you? Lasso and leash that bird, bring’em to the gym. During pre-game introductions, lighta off, spotlight on and HRRAAKK!!! Steve Luhm’s floor has been violated.

That peacock even looks like Little Jaybird.

P1 – Once again, “that’s what she said!”P3 – HOLY CRAP!I guess the peacock wanted to see her as badly as she wanted to see him.

…and look in the backgound. You can see Fonzie waterskiing towards a shark pen!

Okay, I hate to admit it, but I am actually finding this whole storyline really interesting because it is just so unusual. Neal and Rod definitely went outside the box on this one.

The peacock represents the climax of activities between P2 and P3.

Best turn of events evah! Mia is going to go on to break the Wilt Chamberlain single-game scoring record tonight, and then she will score all night with Boo in the back room of the Bucket. Life is good. Thank you Jay-bird… thank you!

I am so happy I’m going to print out an enlargement of P3 and get my crayola box out. The one with the sharpener on the side.

Still think her shooting attempts will hit the rim with a big HRRAAKK!!!

P3 must mean the following program is brought to us in living black and white on MilfordTV

I think Rubin & Whigham need to lay off the sauce for a while.

Who does Mia think she is? Katy Perry!?

If were going to have a peacock, at least make this a full-color comic strip!

And the desperate pitch for a NBC TV deal continues…