Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 31, 2015

Beat up and worn out after a couple of games? Guess I said it before, but high school basketball must be incredibly physical compared with 43 years ago. We had guys just as skinny who took the ball to the basket all the time. They didn’t get a beating.

So, the Baconator is already beat up and worn out after 3 games. Sounds like an opportunity for Red Bull or 5 Hour Energy to jump on the sponsorship bacon wagon.

This kid is in the wrong sport if he’s already ‘beat up and worn out’. He’s mostly immature, appears to me.

He’s paying the price for getting smoked on the court, and now he’s feeling battered and fried. BStatWHiz should egg him on, teach him how to avoid getting pancaked and stop waffling.

Anyone casting a vote for a leathery skinned Aris to show up with a handful of ’roids?

If Numb Nutz is beat up and worn out at this stage of his life, wait till he is in his 40’s with an ex-wife and 3 kids and an Asst. Manager gig at a shoe store! Mr. Reality…thoughts?Rabbit

Update on Max Bacon being worn out, just learned he lost his job at the sheo store and now Max Bacon is a 40 year old trainee at the local Honey Baked Ham Store and has to laugh at all the jokes…..

With that “matador defense” he’s been playing I’m not sure how he could be beat up.

What the blazes happened to the bus headlights? Is GilPa taking the team sleigh riding with those saucers to Carbone Cave? P1- Ease up. Antoine Reed is All League and you’re his b**ch.

Time to quit driving and start working on his jumper. I remember Dr. J changing his game like this…of course he was about 35 then.

I’ll bet this is leading to either mood enhancements, steroids or just plain drug abuse. We haven’t had that in this strip yet have we?

It’s not you, Max, it’s the storyline that’s already bet up and tired.

Ahhhh! I didn’t ridicule it in today’s Mopped Up Thorp but what the hell happened to Bobby’s hand in P1?

Nothing wrong with Baconater that a tattoo and/or rubbing a peacock could not cure.

Bobby’s hand is just cramped up from “thinking of Lisle.”

….I’m smelling a different angle, fellas…Neil and Rod will be exercising their socially conscious “ripped from the headlines” side….expect Baconator to admit he is a victim of domestic abuse. Step Dad is named Bull Meacham…

Give Bacon credit. He’s a least speaking straight from the heart in panel three.