Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 27, 2015

Well that explains Gil’s recent absence…he’s been off getting a nose job.

Benchwarmer Bacon also has a nice ring to it. Yesterday a couple of people commented on the Incredible Missing Gil and up pops the devil today. More proof that the writers read these things.

Looks like he’s holding a volleyball in P1. Good to see Gil finally decided to start coaching the team, I hope BStatWhiz has loaded up on towels for Kaz this game.

… because Gil suddenly has decided that his players can’t talk to the press?

Gil is trying to regain control of the team? By muzzling them?

Gil is a total dick.

The Baconator is primed for a high pick that will knock the meat off his bones.

Make fun of him all you want, but that Gil Thorp is a sharp dresser. Doesn’t matter what decade it is.

Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy basketball names like “Swaggy P” and “Max Bacon”. If we wanted Max Bacon, we went out to the pen and took a bite out of a live pig! Later in the day, after profuse vomiting we’d say, Oooh, maybe I shouldn’t have taken a bite out of a live pig because now my tummy hurts and I have diarrhea with little worms in it"! But we didn’t complain! That’s the way it was and we liked it! We loved it!

Back in the day Max would be branded with the paddle!

The beachball is back in Panel 3. In P2, #2, Marty’s nephew Blue Moon, attempts to touch his nose to prove he is sober enough to play.

This is what I was talking about yesterday. Our coach would have physically grabbed us and ‘let us hold it’ for something that stupid. Of course in “PC World” today they can’t do that.

P-3 …his hands full. “Ooh, what big muscles you have. The better to slam dunk your cracker $%^”

In P1, what are the Milford and Jefferson player laughing about? What’s with the fraternizing?

Bitsy, well done!P2- Gil sporting the Rex Morgan look as he does periodically. Since when does Gil give a damn to wear a suit to a game?P3- hand check, Bacon..got beat in transition, trying to make up for it and lost

Max Bacon should have told Gil that he was only doing what Coach Bob told him to do.

…..last thing I remember I was sitting in The Bucket & then the lights went out and now 4 years have passed and this strip is still not very good…..

….good stuff, Ellis, but you forgot to mention the epic screwing that Lou Henson and Illinois got at Rupp arena during the quarterfinals that year…it still burns, brother, still burns

Back in town and the last 3 strips have been MUTified.