Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 02, 2015

It must be incredibly hot in that locker room. Not only are the players drenched in sweat, but Gil (in p2) is melting.

What a world, what a world! Who would have thought that a little runt like Bobby could destroy Gil’s beautiful wickedness?

Gil is decked out in his wellies in case the showers flood.

I feel bad for Gil. With Bobby gone, now he’s forced to coach.

Mike … have you ever been in a Turkish prison?.FREE JARVIS!

And sheesh, P3: your team’s been decimated by suspensions and lack of towels, you were just knocked out of the playdowns, your season’s about to be over, and you lost the game. To GOSHEN. But sure, have broad grins on your faces..Riiiiiight.

Gil’s got his riding boots on in P2, ready for the showers. Plenty of towels around too, now that Booby’s gone. Somewhere Kaz is smiling.

“Jefferson won tonight, so we were out of the play downs anyway. WE DIDN’T CONTROL OUR OWN DESTINY! NOTHING IS WORSE!!!”

So Gil was in the playOFFS in football and playDOWNS in basketball. Does anybody in the US have playdowns????

The smiles in P3 are in anticipation of Gil dumping a pitcher of root beer on their heads to kick off the baseball season.

In all reality , the player on the left in P 3 resembles Bitsy Twill . I hope she takes him out for pizza after he showers .

P3- Is THAT Wynn Wiley suffering from melting face? Brutal pattern of introducing characters, then not building on them the following season. Much like Wynn and Wendy Wiley, Bacon and Howry will be next basketball season’s footnotes. Don’t expect to see much of Lucky Haskins and Clumsy this baseball season.

No wonder the ’larks lost, what with all the sweat getting in their eyes. If only their was a person associated with the team to hand out towels…

I mean there.

Mop, Mop….come on now, end the drought!

P3 alone is certainly worthy of a gratuitous shower reference!

Hell, I suspect Neil and Rod themselves noticed there haven’t been any shower jokes and lobbed this up for you!

Even the team is unbelievably glad there’s only one game left

Are you sure its sweat in P3?Could be smallpox,

I was going to comment that cuttersjock was going to burst with excitement when he sees today’s Mopped Up Thorp but I see from above that he already can hardly contain himself with anticipation.What’s the deal with P1? Why is Gil consoling Mike (who for no reason at all thinks he blew the game) OUTSIDE the locker room. Ever hear of coach-player confidentiality Gil?

I am still very confused about what the hell a ‘playdown’ is. I have never seen that word used anywhere but this strip.

Time to look ahead to baseball. OK, will True be allowed to play? With a great arm like that, he could well be a starting pitcher. Or, like John Elway, an outfielder. But as people noted above about Wynn Wiley, if True is on the team we might see very little of him.

Mop, you have outdone yourself! Kudos!

Yeah, sheesh. “Playdown” could’ve been whatever it was called in Jack Berrill’s neck of the woods in the 1950s, and force of habit is force of habit. This doesn’t require a brain surgeon (for one thing, Bitsy’s got the doctor’s attention already) to figure out.

Close To Home has a Lobster Boy reference today.