Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 13, 2015

Should probably say goodbye to those weird footbands too.

Tru, you’re going to get on that plane, because you’re too good for this town, you need a proper coach who will challenge you to achieve your potential, and because we have nowhere else to go with this storyline.

I don’t see a State Champ girls softball trophy so I guess they either blew it or the girls don’t have playdowns.

Is Gil playing golf at Milford CC? I can’t imagine that even a State Champ high school coach and his high school coach wife could afford a country club membership.

Saying goodbye to Tru? Is he moving again or does Gil not expect him back from his “road trip” to Hawaii?

I thought Tru was just a junior.

I like True — though I don’t know what he sees in Boo — but come on, is the summer story also going to be about him?

Not sure why Gil is wearing eye-black to sit on his deck, but he applied it way too low to do any good.

Mimi has the arched eyebrow of suspicion in the second panel. Gil can’t even look at her as he declares she should commit herself to golf. What the hell is he up to?

Wait…True was a one-and-done?

Tru’s dad is taking a job in Central City, a reoccuring arc from the Berril days!

“So … we’ve been spending the spring building up these characters in a plotline that bored you all to tears, and now we’re jettisoning the male half just like that!”.“SCREW YOU, GOCOMICS READERS!”

P2- GilPa giving Mimi the indirect ultimatum isn’t sitting well with her. Pedro’s cutting knife on Gil’s achilles and good bye golf season.

In all reality , why did the Thorps fill in their pool and plant a tree in the middle of it ? " I have to say goodbye to True , Boo’s parents are taking he and Boo on cruise vacation leaving from the Milford Seaport today ."

So all of a sudden, with no warning, Tru(e) is leaving? I suppose his dad got transferred again in the 2 days since school ended. If they weren’t going to bother bringing him back why didn’t they just make him a senior in the first place? I guess we’ll get to see Jarrod showing off his mad quarterbacking skills (at least in his mind) next fall.

Say goodbye to True? I guess the pressure of winning a state championship was too much for Gil. He doesn’t want to put up with that again.

Well, a week off is about all Gil’s going to get. Maybe that explains his lack of effort during the school year—he’s staging a slowdown to protest his overly long school year.

Mimi’s giant hand in P2 makes her drink look like a shot glass. And Mop, you can add her “abracadabra” wave, or whatever that is in P1, to your running tally of hand gestures.

Mimi’s last appearance before today was April 18, so that makes 85 days that she was MIA. She’s in the strip so infrequently now that I’m not sure it’s worth counting when she’s gone. Kaz takes over the Coaches Held Hostage lead now with 45 days since his last appearance.

Wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……………..THUD! . (sounds of bombs falling and when they hit they are duds)

But then by now should we not expect that?

Mimi looks like Sue Ane Langdon in panel two.

Option one: Tru flunked and is academically inelligable.Option two: Tru and Boo have been arrested and face 2 charges of breakthrough and entering.Option three with a nod to kdizzle: You’ve got to get on that plane, if you don’t you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life. We’ll always have Central City. Here’s lookin at you, kid.

Comment: Yes, Mimi drink the lemonade,.lots of lemonade. You won’t even taste the X the kids sold me in the hall.

I honestly believe that Mimi is asking about Gil’s schedule so that she knows when she can pencil in Pedro.

@rusty g..I thought Tru(e) was a junior too(e)…what gives?

@chip…I don’t think that’s low eye-black. I think either Mimi or Pedro cut Gil.

Finally..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip86XtF-Kok

…why do you put yourself in a position to get your ass kicked as consistently as you do here?Masochists can be indulged on the Rex Morgan MD board, take your shine box over there!

Wrecked him?

Damn near killed him!

I give up….

WAIT! I GOT IT!Nobody understands the goodbye that’s coming up tomorrow. It’s what we’ve been waiting for. After school let out, Boo and Tru(e) finally had the big car wreck we were anticipating. Tru(e) is on life support and Gil is going to the hospital to say “goodbye and thanks for the title” before they pull the plug. Best plot twist ever!